About

Clefver

A complete music classroom companion: ear training, note reading, theory, performance and composition in one app that works offline on any device, with tools for teachers to set, share and mark work.

What's inside

For teachers

Build assessments from any mix of modes and share them as a link, generate printable worksheets with answer keys, run class quizzes and collect and mark results. Elective Content unlocks the senior material across the app.

Sounds

Recorded piano, plus electric keyboard, synth, guitar, brass, woodwind, strings and marimba generated in your browser. Switch timbre with the icons at the top of each screen. In the Sketch Pad, Score Creator and Melody Over Chords the piano switches to full-length recordings (downloaded the first time, then kept offline), so held and pedalled notes ring on, and softer dynamics sound darker as well as quieter. Piano samples: the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm, from Ziya Mete Demircan’s SalC5 Light soundfont (free, non-commercial).

The Score Creator's orchestral, band, keyboard, synth and percussion instruments are sampled from GeneralUser GS by S. Christian Collins (schristiancollins.com), used under its free licence (included with the app as audio/sf/LICENSE-GeneralUser-GS.txt). Each instrument is downloaded only when a score first uses it, then kept for offline use.

Your progress and privacy

Scores, compositions and progress are stored only on this device — nothing is sent anywhere. Scorecards and PDFs can be exported to hand in through Google Classroom.

Created by Matthew Colucci

Main menu

Aural Skills

Chords and Harmony hear chords, cadences and progressions

Tonality Identification

Name the chord. Practice or test.

Cadence Identification

Perfect, plagal, imperfect or interrupted?

Chord Progressions

Label chords with roman numerals.

Pitch, Intervals and Scales single notes, the gaps between them and the scales they make

Pitch Training

Name single notes by ear.

Interval Training

Name the gap between two notes.

Scale Degrees

Hear the key, name the note.

Aural Scale Identification

Name the scale you hear.

Dictation hear it, then write it down

Rhythmic Dictation

Hear a rhythm, write it down.

Melodic Dictation

Hear a melody, notate it.

Full Dictation

Rhythm and pitch together.

Chord Chart Dictation

Hear a progression, write the chart.

Listening Skills metre, changes and sound effects by ear

Error Detection

Spot where the music changes.

Effect Identification

Hear a guitar through an effect, and name it.

Metre by Ear

How many beats? Simple or compound?

Created by Matthew Colucci  ·  v12.4.1

Setup

Major
Minor
Diminished
Augmented

Pick exactly Diminished and Augmented on their own for focused dissonant-interval training.

Sus4
Dominant 7th
Major 7th
Minor 7th
Power Chord
Add9
Sus2

Enable just one and it can appear up to 5 times in 20 questions; enable several and each is capped at 3, so no single alteration dominates.

Inversions (Major/Minor)
2-Hands Voicing (wide spread, strong bass)
Randomise Timbre (per question)
Major
Minor
Diminished

Volume

Listen closely, then choose an answer.

Learn the Tonalities

Major

Volume

This key's home chord:

Now the four mystery chords:

Tap a slot, then tap a roman numeral to answer it.

Teacher / Classroom Quiz

Answers stay hidden until you reveal them, and nothing is scored — built for running on a projector.

Major
Minor
Diminished
Augmented
Sus4
Sus2
Dominant 7th
Major 7th
Minor 7th
Power Chord
Add9

Only what you tick will appear — so you can drill sus4 against sus2 alone, with no major/minor mixed in.

Include 2-hands (open) voicings
Include inversions
Randomise timbre each question
Volume

Quiz Builder

Build an assessment

Add sections in the order students will work through them. Each one keeps its own settings, and the whole thing becomes a single link with one combined scorecard.

One video or recording, with questions at moments in it. Paste the link, then add questions on the video. (To put a listening activity inside a bigger quiz, use the Quiz Builder’s Video Questions section.)

Assessment details

Shown to students on the quiz and in their My work list, which reminds them as it gets close.
More options retries, exam mode, time limit, shuffling, support and extension versions
for the whole quiz. A bar counts down along the top (red when less than a fifth is left); when it runs out the quiz ends and the report says so. Each section can have its own limit too (the clock beside it).

Each student's copy is shuffled independently from the same link. Most question types already generate different questions per student — this matters most for teacher-written and vetted questions, which are otherwise identical for everyone.

The standard link is always created. Tick either or both of these to generate additional versions alongside it, each with its own Quiz ID.

Also create a Support version
Also create an Extension version

SectionsThe activity

Teacher Guide

Teacher guide

Everything the teacher tools do, and how the pieces fit together.

Standard and Elective Content

Standard is what a junior student sees. Elective Content unlocks the senior content — augmented and extended chords, modes and compound intervals, scale construction, full dictation, pitch and interval training.

The teacher tools are always on the menu under For teachers, whatever Elective Content is set to. When screen-sharing, turn Elective Content off to show exactly the menu your junior students see.

Quiz Builder

Assemble an assessment from any combination of sections, set the parameters for each, and generate a link. Everything is encoded in the link itself — there is no account, login, or server. Students click it and begin.

  • Student names — optional; when on, the quiz will not start until a first and last name is entered, and the name appears on their scorecard and report.
  • Instructions — free text shown to students before they start.
  • Feedback — withhold correct/incorrect until the end (the default) so students can't read answers off a neighbour's screen.
  • Custom Questions — write your own questions and multiple-choice answers for anything Clefver doesn't cover.
  • Differentiation — tick Support and/or Extension to generate extra links alongside the standard one, each with its own Quiz ID so you can tell them apart in the results.

Classroom Quiz

A quiz you run live from the front of the room: chords play on unlimited replay with a reveal button, so you control the pace and discuss each answer as a group. Nothing is scored or submitted.

Marking and feedback links

Open a student’s results link (or Mark and advise in Class Results) to mark their work and send it back.

  • Written answers get a mark (out of the question’s marks) and a comment. Ready-made advice for the concept the question asks about (duration, pitch, texture and so on) adds to the comment with one tap. In Class Results you can mark every student’s answer to a question side by side.
  • Areas to work on: every section under 75% starts with one piece of targeted advice ticked (for intervals, cadences, rhythm, key signatures and every other quiz type); tick or untick to suit the student.
  • Add an overall comment, then Copy the feedback link and send it (a private comment in Classroom, or email). Preview what the student sees shows it first. Marks are kept on your device as you type.
  • The student’s link opens their marked work: marks, your comments beside their answers, and each area to work on with a button to practise it (and to learn it, where there is a lesson).

Questions on a video

In a video section (or the Listening Activity Generator), Add questions on the video… opens the video large with a bar underneath. Play or drag to a moment, pause, and press + Multiple choice here, + Written answer here or + HSC-style here: the question is pinned to that moment and shows as a dot on the bar. Drag a dot, type a time or press ⏱ Now to move it. Students’ video pauses at each dot and the question appears over it.

My work (students)

Every quiz a student opens from your link appears in My Progress › My work: To do, Started, Submitted (with the results link to copy again) and Marked (with your feedback). Give a quiz a due date in the Quiz Builder and it shows on the quiz and in the list, which flags work due within two days or overdue, with a dot on My Progress.

Listening Activity Generator

A quiz built on one YouTube video or recording (a link to an .mp3 or .mp4 works too). It is the Quiz Builder’s video section, ready to fill in, and the link you share works like any other quiz link.

  • HSC-style aural question — choose a verb (describe, explain, discuss, analyse, compare, identify and describe), one or more concepts and, if you like, a focus such as contrast, tension or musical interest, and the marks. Clefver words the question (“Explain how duration and texture are used to create contrast in this excerpt.”), adds a planning grid for those concepts and writes marking guidelines in bands. Everything stays editable.
  • Elements of music prompts — the listening log’s concepts (and the compositional principles), each a toggle that adds or removes a written box with its guiding questions.
  • Any question can be multiple choice (marked automatically) or a written answer (you mark it). Give it marks, a size, a hint, a planning grid and guidelines; times in the video still open and pause each question.
  • Students see the marking guidelines and say which band they think their answer reaches. Their writing is saved on the device as they go, so a reload loses nothing.
  • Written answers arrive in the results link, with the self-assessment and planning notes, and in the PDF. Class Results puts every student’s answer to each written question together, ready to mark side by side. The score counts only the multiple-choice questions.

Puzzle & Activity Generator

Makes a crossword, a find-a-word, or both, as a printable A4 PDF with the answers on the last page (leave that page out when you print). Good for a relief lesson.

  • Terms from Clefver — the Elements of Music glossary (by concept), the Italian terms and signs from Learn Signs and Terms, notation and instruments. The definitions become the clues. Elective terms come in only when ticked.
  • Your own terms — one per line as term - clue. They are always used; random picks from the ticked lists fill up to the number of words you choose.
  • New words picks again; New layout keeps the words and rearranges the grid. Multi-word answers are written without spaces, with the letter counts in brackets, e.g. (5,4).
  • Find-a-word directions go from across-and-down (easiest) to any direction, including backwards. List the clues, not the words makes students work out each term before finding it.
  • Unscramble — jumbled letters, missing letters, or a mix, each with its clue; the first letter can be given for an easier version.
  • Match-up — terms and definitions as a worksheet (draw lines or write the letter), or as cut-out cards for a card sort.
  • Term bingo — terms on the cards; the caller reads out the definitions (from the caller sheet, or project them with the on-screen caller and reveal the answer).
  • Listening log — the six concepts with guiding questions and glossary prompt words, one piece a page or up to three side by side. It suits any recording, so it is ideal to leave with a playlist.
  • Note-name code breaker — words (or your own secret message) written as notes in treble, bass or both, on the stave or with ledger lines; students write each letter in the box beneath its note. Letters that are not note names are printed for them.
  • Rhythm maths — sums of note and rest values in crotchet beats, at three levels: answers in beats, as one note, or a mix that includes finding the missing value. An optional key of note values at the top supports younger students.
  • Instrument fact file — a research page: draw and label, family, classification, clef, range, timbre, techniques, where you hear it. Tick instruments for a page each and a teacher page of key facts, or none for a student's-choice page.
  • Rhythm bingo — pick the note values, one bar of 4/4 or two beats a square, 3 × 3 (with a free centre if you like) or 4 × 4, and how many cards. Every card is different, four to an A4 page with dashed cut lines; the last page is a numbered caller sheet. The Caller on screen counts in and claps each rhythm, so whoever runs the game does not need to read rhythm.

Class Results

Students finish an assessment and get a results link to submit. Paste any number of those links into Class Results and you get one merged view: the class average, median and range; every section ordered weakest first; the individual questions the class found hardest; and a per-student list ordered lowest first, tagged where someone sat a differentiated version or was on a repeat attempt.

All of it runs on this device — nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Reading a student's report

Each results link opens a full report: every question, what the student answered, whether it was right, and the exact settings that section used. Repeat attempts are marked, as is the differentiated version if they sat one — along with the specific adjustments it made.

Practical notes

  • Have students open the app once before the lesson so the piano samples cache; thirty devices downloading at once on school wifi is slow.
  • The assessment intro screen has a sound-check button — worth insisting on it before everyone starts.
  • If a banner offers a refresh, take it: it means a newer version is available.
  • Links never expire and contain no personal data, so they are safe to post in Google Classroom.

Created by Matthew Colucci

Worksheet Creator

Build a printable A4 worksheet. Questions are laid out in two columns with a section heading for each type, and the answer key is placed on its own page at the end so you can print only the student pages.

Worksheet details

The standard worksheet is always produced. Tick either or both to generate them alongside it, each as its own PDF.

Also create a Support version
Also create an Extension version

Each version is a fresh set of questions, adjusted as ticked above. Build, then Preview each one before you print. Teacher-led aural sections are identical in all versions — you pitch those live.

Sections

Puzzle & Activity Generator

Crosswords, find-a-words, unscrambles, match-ups and term bingo from Clefver’s key terms or your own; rhythm bingo and listening logs. Printable A4 with the answers (or the caller sheet) on the last page — ready to leave for a relief lesson.

Puzzle

Include elective terms

Your own terms are always used, then the rest are picked at random from what you tick. The crossword needs a clue for each word; the find-a-word only needs the word.

Add a word bank (easier)
List the clues, not the words (harder)

Preview

Woodwind Fingerings

Choose an instrument, then click a note (or use the arrow keys). A filled hole or key is pressed down.

Printed Resources Generator

Manuscript paper, keyboard and fingerboard diagrams, listening logs and rhythm dictation sheets, ready to print on A4.

Resource

Name, class and date lines

Preview

Elements of Music — Revision

Tap a card to flip it. Space flips, arrow keys move between cards.

Guitar Chords

Open shapes and moveable barre chords. Numbered dots are which finger to use (1 = index). A thick bar means one finger covers several strings.

Click any diagram to switch it between fingering, tab and notation.

Tick chords above, choose which views to include, then export. Good for a printed handout of today's new chords.

Diagram
Tab
Notation

Keyboard Chords

Choose a chord, or type one. See where it sits on the keyboard, which fingers to use, and how it is written on the grand staff.

4.0×
–

Click on the stave to add a note; click an existing note to select it. Keyboard: C–B types a note (e.g. “C E - G” places C, E♭, G), + / − set accidentals, ← → move between notes, ↑ ↓ nudge pitch, Delete removes the selected note.

Chord Chart

How to type a chart
  • | is a barline and || a double barline. |: and :| are repeat signs (played twice).
  • Chords in a bar share it evenly: |Em7 G | in 4/4 is two beats each.
  • For exact beats, use / for each beat the chord carries on: |C / / G | is three beats of C and one of G.
  • Type a time signature to change metre from that bar: |3/4 Em G F | G Am F | 4/4 G / C / ||. The quaver stays the same speed through a change.
  • Time endings: type 1st, 2nd or 3rd at the start of a bar. |: C | G | 1st F | G :| 2nd F | C || plays the 1st ending the first time and skips to the 2nd the next.
  • Click any chord in the chart to hear it on its own.
  • % repeats the previous bar, N.C. is no chord, [A] puts a section letter on the bar.
  • Start a new line to start a new row. Rows also wrap every four bars.
  • Key sets the key the chart is in. Choose a different key and every chord is transposed to it, spelt for the new key.
  • Chords: C Cm C- Cmaj7 CΔ C7 Cm7 Cø Cdim Co7 Caug C+ Csus4 Csus2 Cadd9 C6 C6/9 C9 C11 C13 C7b9 C7#11 C/E

Saved charts are kept in this browser. Use Save as file, or a save folder or backup in Settings → Your Data, to keep them safe.

Drum Sequencer

Tap a square to add a hit, or drag along a row to add several. Tap an instrument’s name to hear it. The groove is written out below as drum notation.

Drum key: where each instrument is written

Score Editor

Start from a template or choose your own instruments, then name the score and set its tempo, key and time.

Score details

Instruments

Turn your phone sideways for more room.
Bars:

Key Signature Identification — Setup

Elements of Music — Setup

Pitch
Duration
Performing Media & Timbre
Dynamics & Expression
Texture
Structure

Cadence Identification — Setup

Perfect
Plagal
Imperfect
Interrupted
Phrygian (minor keys)

Each cadence is played as a short phrase in four parts, starting on the home chord. After each answer you see it on the stave with Roman numerals and can hear it again.

Note Identification — Setup

Treble
Bass
Include sharps & flats

Read a Bar — Setup

Treble
Bass

Note Words — Setup

Treble
Bass

Error Detection — Setup

A short passage plays. Several written versions are shown, each differing from the others in just one place — choose the one that matches what you heard.

Complete the Bar — Setup

2/4
3/4
4/4
6/8

Which note completes the bar?

Fix the Rhythm — Setup

Renotate the rhythm using ties

As written
Your version

Click a value to add it to the end of your bar. Click a note in your bar to select it, then add a tie, delete it, or insert new values after it.

Motif Development — Setup

Augmentation
Diminution
Transposition
Sequence
Retrograde
Retrograde melody
Retrograde rhythm
Inversion

The motif
Your answer

Add note values from the palette. Click a note to select it, then click on the stave (or use ↑ ↓, or type A–G) to set its pitch.

Sing It Back — Setup

Uses your microphone. Headphones help, so the app does not hear its own piano.

Tap the Rhythm — Setup

4/4
3/4
2/4
6/8

Sight-Singing Ladder — Setup

Sing a round with 80% of the notes in tune to unlock the next level.

Uses your microphone. Sing in a quiet room; headphones stop the app hearing its own piano.

Sight-Read & Play — Setup

Check my playing uses your microphone and one note at a time (no chords). A quiet room helps.

Count and Play Along — Setup

4/4
3/4
2/4
6/8

Count it, then play along

Gather everything students need for a task (steps and toolkit pages from the Composition Scaffold, lessons, and tools) under your own brief. Share one link: it opens the pack, and it stays in each student’s My work.

Privacy and accessibility

Clefver is a music-education app that runs entirely in the browser. It has no accounts, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics or tracking, and no cookies. Everything a student does stays on their own device unless they choose to share it.

What Clefver keeps, and where

  • Settings, practice history and results, compositions and their autosaves, composition folios (diary entries and versions), each piece’s time-lapse (the saved moments of how it was written), lesson progress and recently used tools.
  • All of it is kept in the browser’s own storage on this device only. It is never sent to Clefver or anyone else.
  • Names are optional. A student may type their name on a scorecard, a quiz or a folio. It stays on the device, and goes only where the student sends it.
  • Clearing the browser’s site data erases it. Students can keep their own copy as a backup file or a .clefver file (Settings › Your Data), or in a save folder they choose on their device.

What leaves the device

Nothing leaves automatically. Only these, and only when the user chooses:

  • Links they create and share: a quiz, results, feedback or composition link carries its content inside the link itself. A results link, for example, includes the student’s name (if typed) and their answers, and anyone the link is sent to can read them. There is no copy on a server.
  • Files they save or export: PDFs, pictures, MusicXML, MIDI, audio and Clefver files go wherever the user saves them.
  • Share to Google Classroom opens Google’s own sharing page with the link; Google’s terms apply there.
  • YouTube videos in listening activities and video questions (only when a teacher has used one) play through YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com); YouTube’s terms apply to the video.

The app’s own files and instrument sounds download from the website that hosts Clefver. Like every website’s host, it may keep standard technical request logs; Clefver itself does not collect or use them.

Microphone and MIDI

  • The microphone is used only when the user starts a tool that listens: the tuner, singing exercises, and singing or playing a melody into the Score Creator. The browser asks permission first.
  • Sound from the microphone is analysed live, on the device, to find its pitch. It is never recorded, stored or sent anywhere.
  • A MIDI keyboard, if connected, is read on the device in the same way.

For schools

  • Students need no email address, account or personal details to use any part of Clefver.
  • Teacher tools (quizzes, results, support packs, feedback) work the same way: everything is created on the teacher’s device and shared only as links or files the teacher chooses to send.
  • Clefver can be installed as an app and works offline once its sounds have downloaded.

Accessibility

  • Display: Dark Mode, Larger text, Dyslexia-friendly text (more letter, word and line spacing), Reduce motion (it also follows the device’s own setting) and a Stronger focus outline, all in Settings.
  • Keyboard: the menus, quizzes and tools can be used with Tab and Enter; quizzes take number keys for answers and Enter to check; notes can be entered in the Score Creator from the computer keyboard or a MIDI keyboard.
  • Screen readers: buttons and controls are labelled, and many status messages (saving, results, feedback) are announced.
  • Colour is never the only signal: colour-coded things (elective tools, chord types, motif types, right and wrong answers) also carry a word, a symbol or a label.
  • Projector mode shows lessons and maps in large type for the whole class.

Known limits. Music notation is drawn as a picture, so a screen reader can describe the controls but not read a score note by note. Aural training depends on hearing; where possible the answer is also shown on a stave or keyboard afterwards.

One piece and its whole story: every version along the way, a diary of your thinking, the task checklist and your teacher’s comments, kept together and exported as one PDF. Save it to a file as you go, so it is safe even if this browser is cleared.

What is an upper structure?

An upper structure is a triad played on top of a chord, usually by the right hand, while the left hand plays the chord’s 3rd and 7th (often with the root). The left hand tells you what kind of chord it is; the triad on top adds the colour notes — the 9ths, 11ths and 13ths, natural or altered.

Because a triad is easy to find and play, it is the quickest way to reach a rich jazz sound: think “D major over C7” instead of “C7 with a 9th, a sharp 11th and a 13th”. Each triad comes from a scale that fits the chord, so it always belongs.

  • The left hand keeps the 3rd and 7th: they decide major, minor or dominant. The 5th and the root can be left out (a bass player has the root).
  • The right hand plays a triad from the chord’s scale. Its top note is the one people hear as the melody, so choose the inversion for the top note you want.
  • Avoid a natural 11 over a major 3rd (it clashes a minor 9th above it) — that is why the major-chord structures use ♯11.
  • Writing it down: an upper structure is written as a polychord, the triad above the chord with a horizontal line (D over C7). A diagonal slash (D/C) is different: a D triad with just C in the bass. Lead sheets usually show the full symbol instead, such as C13(♯11).
Left hand
Triad
Lead sheet
Polychord

Keys: A kick · S snare · D rimshot · W snare rim · T closed hi-hat · Y hi-hat pedal · U open hi-hat · O crash · P ride · H high tom · G mid tom · F floor tom

Tap a key. Clockwise, each key adds a sharp (or loses a flat); the minor key inside shares its key signature.

Many instruments read music at a different pitch from the one they sound. Choose an instrument and which way you are going.

Step by step

    Worked example

    Quick check

    All the transposing instruments

    What is a synthesiser?

    A synthesiser makes its sound rather than recording one. It starts with an electrical signal that wobbles back and forth hundreds of times a second — the oscillator. Your speaker moves with that wobble, and you hear it as a note: the faster it repeats, the higher the pitch.

    The raw signal then passes through a filter, which shapes its tone, and an amplifier whose envelope decides how the note starts, holds and dies away.

    Oscillatorpitch and waveform→ Filtertone: bright or dark→ Amplifierenvelope: ADSR→ Speakerwhat you hear

    Oscillators and waveforms

    The shape of the wobble is the waveform, and it decides the timbre. Every shape except the sine is secretly a mixture of a note and its harmonics (quieter notes at 2×, 3×, 4×… the pitch). The more harmonics, the brighter and buzzier the sound. Press each one to hear it.

    Pitch, octaves and detune

    Doubling the speed of an oscillator raises it an octave; halving it drops it an octave. Big synth sounds often stack two or three oscillators an octave apart.

    Detune nudges one oscillator a few cents (hundredths of a semitone) away from another. The two drift in and out of step, making a slow beating that sounds wide and lively — the classic “supersaw”.

    The envelope: ADSR

    An envelope changes the volume over the life of a note, in four stages:

    • Attack — how long it takes to reach full volume after you press the key (a pluck is instant; a string pad fades in).
    • Decay — how long it takes to fall from that peak to the sustain level.
    • Sustain — the level it holds at while the key stays down (not a time).
    • Release — how long it takes to fade out after you let go.

    The filter: tone

    A low-pass filter lets the low part of the sound through and cuts the high harmonics above its cutoff. Turn the cutoff down and a bright sawtooth turns warm and muffled; turn it up and it opens out. Resonance boosts the harmonics right at the cutoff, for a vocal, “wah” edge.

    FM synthesis

    An FM (frequency modulation) synth makes its sound differently. A second, unheard sine wave, the modulator, wobbles the pitch of the one you hear, the carrier. Slowly, that would be vibrato; this fast, the wobble turns into new overtones called sidebands. This is the sound of the 1980s: the electric pianos, bells and basses of the Yamaha DX7.

    • Ratio: the modulator's speed against the note. Whole numbers (×1, ×2, ×3) put the sidebands on the note's own harmonics, so it sounds pitched; in-between ratios (×1.41, ×3.5) scatter them, so it sounds like a bell or metal.
    • Index: how hard the modulator pushes. At 0 you hear a pure sine; turn it up and more sidebands appear, so the sound gets brighter.
    • Brightness envelope: the index rising and falling during the note. A bright attack that mellows is what makes FM sound like an electric piano or a struck bell.

    Ready? The You Try tab has a playable three-oscillator synth with all of these controls. Choose FM on any oscillator, or one of the FM presets.

    One bar for each chord, round and round. Click a chord diagram to see the chords as TAB (and click again to go back). ↓ strum down (low strings to high), ↑ strum up. On keyboard, play the chord with your right hand on each strum and the root with your left hand.

    Scale Degrees — Setup

    Which scale degree is the last note?

    Metre by Ear — Setup

    How many beats are in each bar?

    Tap along with the pulse, then listen for the strong beat coming round again.

    Transposition — Setup

    Click where each note goes (or select it and type its letter, or use ▲ ▼). ♯ ♮ ♭ add an accidental to the selected note.

    Learn Signs and Terms — Setup

    Tempo
    Changes of tempo
    Dynamics
    Expression and mood
    Playing directions
    Articulation and signs

    Cards you get right come back after longer and longer gaps (later today, then 1, 3, 7 and 16 days). Cards you miss come back a few cards later, and again next time, until they stick. Due cards come first; new ones are added a few at a time.

    Signs and Terms Quiz — Setup

    Tempo
    Changes of tempo
    Dynamics
    Expression and mood
    Playing directions
    Articulation and signs

    Terms in Other Languages — Setup

    Italian
    German
    French
    Instrument names
    Performance terms

    Scores name the instruments in Italian, German or French, and composers write their directions in their own language. Wrong answers are always from the same language, so you learn to tell them apart. Learn mode keeps your progress on this device; the Italian terms share it with Learn Signs and Terms.

    From the ScoreSpace Composer’s Guide: what each instrument sounds like, where its notes lie, what to explore and avoid, how to notate it, and music to study.

    Chord Chart Dictation — Setup

    Write the chord chart

    Metronome

    ♩ =90
    Andantino

    Keyboard: Space starts and stops, arrow keys change the tempo (Shift for 10), T taps.

    Drone

    Hold a note underneath your playing or singing. Play scales against it and listen: when you are in tune the sound is smooth; when you are out, it wobbles (“beats”).

    A4 =440Hz

    Reference Pitch

    Tuning notes for the whole class. Tap a note to hear it for three seconds, or turn on Keep sounding while you tune.

    A4 =440Hz

    How to Tune

    Choose your instrument. Follow the steps, with the Tuner open or listening to the tuning note.

    Which version did you hear?

    Chord Identification — Setup

    A chord is written on the stave and you type its name. Most common spellings are accepted — Cmaj7, CM7, Cma7 and CΔ7 all count.

    Common triads
    Dissonant triads
    Suspensions
    7ths
    Extended harmony
    Added tones
    Altered tones
    Inversions

    Name this chord

    Score Reading — Setup

    A short piano score is written out, and you answer a set of questions about it: the chords, arpeggios, steps and leaps, rhythm, key and cadence. Press Play to hear it as you read.

    4/4
    3/4
    The key
    Chord in a bar
    Arpeggiated chord
    Melodic steps
    Intervals
    Repeated rhythm
    Cadence

    Interval Construction — Setup

    You'll be given a note on the stave and asked to write the note a given interval above it. Same controls as Chord Construction.

    Allow sharp/flat starting notes

    The song, in order

    Add a section:
    In the key:

    Tap a word to put a chord over it.
    Space plays and stops. Play along on the screen, the computer keys (A S D F…) or a MIDI keyboard.
    Your notes

    Melody Generator — Setup

    Dotted rhythms
    Syncopation
    Ties
    Rests
    Triplets (duplets in 6/8)

    Note Values — Setup

    Rests
    Dotted notes
    Beamed groups
    Advanced values (breve, demisemiquaver, beamed hemidemisemiquavers)

    What is this called?

    Keyboard Chord Construction — Setup

    Major and minor
    Diminished and augmented
    Sus2 and sus4
    7, maj7 and m7
    m7♭5 and dim7
    6 and m6
    9, maj9 and m9
    Root position
    Inversions
    Open triads
    Drop 2
    Drop 3
    Drop 2 and 4
    Shell (root, 3rd, 7th)
    Rootless A and B

    Drop voicings need four-note chords (7ths and 6ths), open voicings triads, shell voicings 7th chords and rootless voicings 9th chords; each question pairs a chord with a voicing that suits it.

    What is this voicing?

    Chord Construction — Setup

    Major
    Minor
    Class Results

    Class results

    Paste the results links or codes your students submitted — one per line — or drop their exported result PDFs straight in. Clefver merges them into a single view showing how the class went overall and which sections they found hardest.

    Students' results

    Drop result PDFs here

    Or — you can select a whole folder's worth at once.

    Hides student names and shows the class as a distribution instead — useful for sharing, projecting, or discussing results with the class itself.

    Class view

    Results report

    Assessment report

    Feedback
    Assessment

    Assessment

    Quiz ID

    Check your sound first

    Press the button. If you cannot hear it, turn your volume up or plug in headphones before you start.

    Work through each section in order. You will get one combined scorecard at the end, which you can export as an image.

    Learn the Scales

    Construct this scale:

    Tap on the stave to place each note, then use ♭ ♮ ♯ for accidentals. ▲ ▼ nudge a note, ✕ clears it. Keyboard: C–B writes a note, + / − for accidentals, ← → to move, ↑ ↓ to nudge.

    Listen, then name the scale.

    Volume

    Listen, then name the interval.

    Find this tablature note on the fretboard:

    The top tab line is the thinnest string (high E); the bottom is the thickest (low E). Open strings are the column left of the nut.

    Volume

    Tap a beat, then choose a note value to place there.

    Keyboard Diagram

    Tap any key to hear it. Every white key is named, and each black key shows both its sharp and flat spelling.

    On a computer keyboard: A S D F G H J K L ; ' play the white keys and W E T Y U O P the black ones; hold Tab for an octave higher, and Z/X move them down/up an octave (they start on C4). Type a capital (Shift or Caps Lock) and the note keeps sounding after you let go, like the sustain pedal.

    Volume

    DAW

    Your projects are saved on this device as you work. Choose one to carry on, or start a new one.

    1.1

    Turn your phone sideways for more room.
    Whole mixMaster

    Keep the meter out of the red; the light shows if it clipped.

    FX
    How the DAW works

    Idea Stems… is a library of ready-made loops — drum grooves and ostinati, chord progressions, melodies and bass lines — that come out in the project’s key and metre: hear one, then Add it at the playhead, or ✦ Mutate it to make it more complex (extensions and inversions, passing notes, fills and ghost notes…), choosing which changes to keep. Or double-click (or double-tap) an empty part of a track to add a clip, then double-click the clip to write its notes in the piano roll. Drag a clip to move it — to another time or another track. At its right edge, the top half makes the clip longer or shorter (hold Alt/Option to stretch the notes with it) and the bottom half ⟳ loops it, repeating its notes as far as you drag. Up to eight tracks, each with its own instrument — tap a track’s icon to choose another. Under the tracks, the selected track’s volume and effects sit beside the Master: the volume of the whole mix, its level meter (keep it out of the red; the light shows if it clipped) and up to three effects on everything. [ and ] move the playhead back and forward a bar. ✂ Split at playhead (S) cuts a clip in two where the playhead is, and Join with next (J) makes the selected clip and the next one on its track into one (both are on the right-click menu too). ● Record (R) counts in a bar, then records what you play into the selected track — on a MIDI keyboard, the on-screen Keyboard or your computer keys; with the loop on, each time round adds to the same clip. The Tone, Space, Echo and Drive knobs shape a track without opening any effects. Drum clips open on a step grid: click the squares to make a beat (Shift-click for a louder, accented hit). Open in Score Editor writes the selected clip in standard notation and brings your changes back.

    Effects

    What is an effect?

    An effect changes a sound on its way to the speakers. The untouched sound is called dry; the processed sound is wet, and a mix control blends the two. Effects are chained one after another — a guitarist’s pedalboard, or the inserts on a DAW track — and the order matters: distortion before reverb sounds very different from reverb before distortion.

    Soundthe dry signal→Effectchanges it→Speakerwhat you hear

    Effect Identification — Setup

    A short phrase is played through one effect. Listen, compare it with the dry sound if you like, and name the effect.

    Reverb
    Delay
    Overdrive
    Distortion
    Fuzz
    Chorus
    Flanger
    Phaser
    Wah
    Tremolo

    EQ and compression are left out: on their own they are too subtle to name by ear.

    Which effect do you hear?

    Keyboard Playground

    Volume
    C3–C6

    Press and hold a key to play; slide across the keys for a glissando. On a computer keyboard: A S D F G H J K L ; ' play the white keys from the first C and W E T Y U O P the black ones; hold Tab for an octave higher, and Z/X move the keyboard down/up. Type a capital (Shift or Caps Lock), or switch on the Sustain pedal, and notes keep sounding after you let go. Switch on the Sustain pedal and notes keep sounding after you lift your finger.

    Find this note on the keyboard:

    Volume

    Your home note: C — play it as often as you like.

    Now the melody:

    4 listens left

    Tap a box, then tap the note you think it is.

    Volume

    Listen, then name the note you heard.

    Results

    8 / 10

    80% correct

    Breakdown