Four listening drills — intervals, notes, chords, and scale degrees — plus a live pitch matcher that scores your guitar or voice in cents.
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The Tool Shed / Guitar Ear Trainers
The "Hear It, Then Play It" Method.
A tuner keeps your strings honest, but it can't hear you — whether you're bending in tune or landing on the right note. That's the ear's job. These four drills sharpen the part of you that catches a sour note before any meter does, and the pitch matcher closes the loop: hear a tone, then play it back until it lands.
Interval recognition
Two notes play in a row. Name the distance between them.
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Pitch matcher
Hear a tone, then sing or play it back until you match it. This trains your ear to find a note by sound alone — the skill behind playing by ear, tuning by feel, and landing the right note without looking down.
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Beta — Active Calibration
The Pitch Matcher is live but still being fine-tuned for the best experience across instruments and microphones. Results may vary. We are working on it.
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Match it in the octave shown. On guitar, give it a couple of picks and let the note ring — it can take more than one to register.
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Play a target, then enable your mic to start matching.
Your mic is processed on your device only — nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.
Reference tone:
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Sing along. The fastest way to lock an interval in is to hum the lower note, then slide up to the higher one. Your voice teaches your ear faster than your eyes ever will.
A trained ear is the other half of good intonation. Once you can hear when a note is off, check whether your guitar agrees.
No — and almost nobody has it. This trains relative pitch: hearing how notes relate to one another. Every drill gives you a reference first, so you're always judging distance and quality, never naming a note out of thin air. Relative pitch is a skill that grows with practice.
How does the pitch matcher work?
A target tone plays, and your mic listens as you match it on your guitar or with your voice. The meter shows how far off you are in cents — flat to the left, sharp to the right — and turns green when you hold it in tune. Match the note in the octave shown.
What's a cent?
A cent is one hundredth of a semitone — the small step from one fret to the next. There are 100 cents between any two neighbouring notes, so an octave spans 1,200. Most ears start to notice a difference around 5 to 10 cents, which is the window the meter treats as in tune.
How is this different from a tuner?
A tuner tells you whether a string sits at its target. The matcher trains the link between ear and hands — you hear a tone first, then try to produce it. It's about playing what you hear. If you just need to tune up, the Guitar Tuner is the right tool.
Is my microphone audio sent anywhere?
No. The mic is used only by the pitch matcher, and all listening and analysis happens on your own device. Nothing is recorded, stored, or transmitted.
