Music Glossary: drills

Target 3rds/7ths by ear on strong beats; sing arpeggios through changes to outline harmony clearly. more

Run lines, arpeggios, and patterns through all keys via the fourths cycle. Builds transpositional fluency and fretboard/keyboard coverage. more

Apps and web tools that drill intervals, chords, progressions, and rhythm with spaced repetition and analytics. more

Mapping tonic, predominant, dominant functions in real time; listen for cadences and leading tones. more

Metronome mutes for bars to test internal time; aim to land on the click when it returns. more

Training to recognize the distance between two notes (melodic/harmonic). Start with perfects and majors/minors, then add tritones. more

Sing up/down specific intervals from a reference pitch to connect ear, voice, and instrument. more

Hearing common progressions (I–V–vi–IV, ii–V–I, blues forms) and predicting next chords by function. more

Writing down clapped/spoken rhythms; practice with subdivisions, ties, syncopation, and mixed meters. more

Reading and singing notated melodies at first sight; builds intonation, rhythm, and interval accuracy. more