https://musictheoryprint.com/tools/ Recent content in Interactive Tools on Music Theory Print Hugo en https://musictheoryprint.com/tools/interval-ear-trainer/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://musictheoryprint.com/tools/interval-ear-trainer/ <h2 id="why-intervals-have-to-be-practised-by-ear">Why intervals have to be practised by ear<a class="anchor" href="#why-intervals-have-to-be-practised-by-ear">#</a></h2> <p>Every other part of written theory can be worked out on paper. Intervals can too — count the letter names, count the semitones, check the quality — but that skill only becomes useful when you can also do it in the half-second before the second note has finished sounding. Sight-singing, taking dictation, tuning to another player and working out a tune by ear all depend on naming a distance you have heard, not one you have measured.</p>