Ear training on bass

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Root Shuffling

The root jumps to a new pitch periodically during gameplay — the same noteset is reseated on a fresh root, building the ability to summon the noteset by its type from any root. This makes playing in any key trivial.

Major Pentatonic

Five notes, no semitones — the go-to major melodic scale

The major pentatonic is a five-note scale formed by adding the 2 and 6 to the major triad. Built from five steps along the circle of 5ths and free of dissonant semitone steps, it sounds good in a wide range of contexts. It is the innate scale — hummed naturally, independently across cultures.

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Change root

or everyphrases

Notes

per phrase

Tempo

60bpm

Rhythm

Hand

Frets

up to

Sound

Metronome

100%

Samples load on first play (~1 MB).

What you're practicing

Ear training is training your perception of pitch so that you can play what you hear, rather than what you see — and learn from every piece of music you listen to. The usual kind names intervals on a keyboard and never touches your instrument; this kind is a perception–action loop: listen, identify, play, on the thing you actually play.

What it builds is relative pitch — hearing each note by its relationship to a root, which is what carries playing by ear, improvising and writing. So the root moves: the same set, reseated on a new note every so often, until the sound of a degree is the same in every key. Start with the root and fifth, then the pentatonics, then the scales; on the chord side, hear a triad and find its shape.

On the bass: four strings in standard tuning, the first twelve frets. The 6 exercises above are the loop with the ear training decided — the panel still offers every setting, and a link carries yours.

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