Ear Warrior
Every sister site shows you what a chord is. This one plays it and asks.
Free ear training that asks instead of showing: distances, chord qualities, and famous loops arrive as sound in a key the seed picked, and every miss lands in a published confusion set you can drill directly.
The Three Drills
One spine, three surfaces: a sound plays, you commit to a name, and the reveal tells you what your ear swapped it for.
Intervals
Thirteen distances inside the octave, each drilled against the neighbours — and the inversion — that keep stealing its answer.
Chord Qualities
Sixteen qualities named by sound alone, each published with the near misses that sit one moved tone away.
Progressions
Eight famous loops that share their material on purpose — the drill is the order they arrive in, and the one the music rests on.
What Lives Here
The Daily Round
The whole network shows one chord a day. The sisters display it — this one plays it and asks what it was.
Progress
Your rounds, kept in this browser only, read back as the pairs you keep swapping rather than a single score.
Learn
Six short pieces on the decisions extra rounds cannot make for you — what to drill, how often, and why.
Reference Tone
One steady pitch, held as long as you want, so your voice has something honest to argue with.
Theme Builder
Four colours in, a full contrast-checked palette out — ear training happens with your eyes half closed.
FAQ
Why the key is never named, why the list stops at sixteen, and where your scores actually live.
How It Works
Press Play
A round arrives as sound in a key chosen by the seed, not by you — so the only thing left to judge is the shape of what you heard.
Commit to a Name
Pick an answer before anything is revealed. Guessing out loud is the point: a committed wrong answer teaches more than a hedge.
Read Your Misses
The reveal names what played and what you said. Over time the record shows which pairs your ear swaps — and every leaf page lists exactly those pairs to drill against.
The Site That Asks
Every other site in the Warrior Network can name a sound: the formula, the notes, the shape under your fingers. None of them can play one and then ask you what it was. That is the whole job here — three drills, one shared spine, and a published record of which answers keep getting mistaken for each other.
Go Deeper
Start where the drills start: intervals · chord qualities · progressions · the daily round · reading your progress · the Learn shelf · tools · the FAQ. When you want to see what you just heard, our sister sites draw it properly — Theory Warrior for the theory, String Warrior for the instruments.
Ear Training Questions, Answered
More on the full FAQ page.
- Do I need to read music to use the drills?
- No. Every round is answered by picking a name from a list, and every leaf page writes out what that name means in plain distances. Nothing here asks you to read anything off a page while you listen.
- Why does every round land in a different key?
- Because a distance, a quality, and a loop are the same objects in every key. Naming the key would answer the question for you — so the seed transposes each round, and what is left to recognise is the shape itself.
- Will this give me perfect pitch?
- No, and nothing here pretends otherwise. These drills train relative pitch — naming what you hear against what came before it — which is the skill that transfers to real music. The Learn piece on the difference sets it out honestly.
- Where are my scores kept?
- In this browser's local storage and nowhere else. There is no account and no server copy, so your practice record is yours — and clearing site data genuinely clears it.
- Is any of this paid?
- No. Every drill, page, and tool on Ear Warrior is free, with no ads and no sign-up, on any device with a browser and working audio.