Play the phrase first, then sing it back.

Press Start, then type the letter name of the circled note.

You are graded on the letter name only, so a sharp or flat does not need to be typed. Use the keyboard letters A to G, or the buttons above.

Two octaves across the grand staff. Tap any note to hear it.

Sing it back

One octave at a time. Press Start and sing each note back.

The drone plays through your speakers and will reach the microphone. Use headphones, or keep it on Tonic only at low volume.

Pick a song, hear it, then sing it back phrase by phrase.

Everything here is out of copyright, either traditional or by composers long dead. Melodies marked as a draft are my best reading of a traditional tune and may differ from the version you teach — open the notation above and correct them.

Click on the stave to write a note. Click a note you have written to select it, then change its length or move it.

A note will never run past the end of its bar — if the length you chose does not fit, the largest one that does is used instead. Keyboard: 1 semibreve, 2 minim, 3 crotchet, 4 quaver, 5 semiquaver, D dotted, R rest, Delete removes the selected note.

Tap the spacebar, or the pad below, on every notehead. One bar of clicks counts you in.

Tapping is judged rather than singing, because a sung legato note has almost no attack for a computer to find. This measures your timing directly.

Sing the interval

You get the first note. Sing the second one.

Name the interval

Press Start. Listen, then choose the interval.

Play or sing the target note and hold it. Being in tune once is not centring — centring is staying there.

The trace shows your pitch across the whole note, so you can see the shape of the problem: a sag at the start is breath support, a drift upward is usually embouchure tightening as you tire.

Press Start. Listen, then choose your answer.

Every question is made fresh, so nothing here can be memorised. The question types follow the usual exam pattern but the material is our own.

Record yourself, add some effects, then download it.

Equaliser

Six bands, each from twelve decibels down to twelve up. Lift around 3 kHz for clarity on a voice, cut below 100 Hz to lose rumble.

One recording at a time, up to five minutes. Delete the one you have before making another — that keeps the app light and your machine tidy. Nothing is ever uploaded; recordings live on your own computer until you download them. MP3 at 128 kbps is plenty for a voice and gives the smallest file to share.

The pendulum swings one full sweep per beat, and its weight rides up the arm as the tempo falls, exactly as it does on a wind-up metronome. Silent mode is worth using: keeping time by eye alone is much harder, and much more useful, than following a click.

Play a single note. The nearest string lights up.

Tap any string above to hear its reference pitch. For a guitar or a violin, tune the lowest string first and work upward — each string you tighten pulls the neck slightly and detunes the ones before it, so a second pass is normal.

Progressions for this grade

Test yourself

Trinity Theory runs Grades 1 to 8. There is no Initial grade.

Questions are generated fresh each time from the requirements for your grade, so nothing can be learned by heart. Trinity's own study estimate runs from 20 hours at Grade 1 to 210 at Grade 8.

Choose a lesson from the list.