This screen gives you practise in recognizing any musical interval when you hear it.
On first opening this screen, you should hear an easy interval test. The computer should play two notes on the piano, one after the other. You can ask for another test by clicking the light blue Next Interval button. If you want to hear the same interval again, click the green Listen Again button. If you prefer to hear the two notes sounded together, as a chord, select the Together option button in the green Sound Notes box. If you want to see the notes written on a musical staff, click the beige button View Staff.
If you reached this screen from the learning guide, having set the exam body and grade, and then going to the Intervals screen in one of the keys for the current exam grade, and clicking Practise these intervals, the level of difficulty will reflect the exam syllabus. The starting note will initially be set to the tonic of the key signature that you came from.
If instead, you arrived here directly from the MENU Practise -> Intervals ear training, then you are free to choose the starting note (any of 12 notes from C to B in semi-tone steps), using the beige panel on the left of the screen. You may also set the direction to up or down, using the blue panel.
When you have listened enough times and you think you know the right answer, click one of the options from the light yellow box on the right, entitled Select Your Answer. The computer will immediately tell you if you are right or not. If you want to give up, and find out the right answer, click the pink Display Correct Answer button.
If you click the beige View Staff button, the two notes of the interval will be displayed in musical notation. The caption on this button will automatically change to Hide Staff, so if you click this button now, the staff notation box will disappear.
There is a score card which counts your right and wrong responses.