Pitch Grid Test

Pitch Grid Test offers handy tools for users who are concerned about their abilities to detect and accurately identify frequencies in different melodies or sounds produced by musical instruments.

As such, if you are looking for a cost-free application with built-in over-time improvement capabilities and test recording data, this tool might be the right choice for your needs. Equally, if you are a music student or teacher and wish to learn, enhance, or teach (new) skills to yourself or others, Pitch Grid Test could also turn out to be useful.

Compared to the physical frequency hearing aptitudes, recognizing relative-pitch frequencies could and should be trained through repetition over time. For example, if you are already capable to accurately make the distinction between two different sounds, then, starting to pay attention to the distance at which these manifest could be sharpened, via practice.

With this application, during the evaluation test, you are going to be presented with a sensitivity grid that displays different-tone musical notes. Following the reveal of the working panel, you can set up the parameters of your test by opting for an easy or difficult test and by selecting the appropriate testing grid, based on the desired sensitivity level (that includes 12 different grid types).

During the actual relative-pitch testing, the user is shown a certain tone (that is highlighted), and the corresponding sound for that note is played out. Following that, another tone is being played, but not visually highlighted. Your job is to estimate, based on the musical knowledge of the displayed symbols, as well as the sound and frequency variation knowledge you have, what is the note that has been played at last.

This application is free of cost, minimalist in its approach to frequency testing, and comes packed with a helpful user manual that teaches you everything you can and should learn about the sound variation, how to use this program, and how the evaluation methods work. As such, even if you are not a musician or music teacher and you are only interested in enhancing your hearing abilities, you could give Pitch Grid Test a shot.