NoteQuest: the free music game to read notes and train your ear
Start here: First Notes · Name E, G and B on the music staff — tap a note to hear it. · About 2 minutes
Start with First Notes: three notes, eight quick questions, about two minutes. Turn your sound on. From there, NoteQuest teaches the building blocks of music through play: kids read notes on the treble and bass staff, hear intervals and chords, build major scales, and tap back rhythms, all with real synthesized sound. Free to play with no ads. Diffy measures product use to improve the service.
What kids learn
- Naming notes on the treble and bass staff, including ledger-line notes
- Identifying intervals by ear and telling major from minor
- Hearing and repeating short melodies and steady beats
- Tapping back rhythms with rests and dotted notes
- Reading key signatures and naming the major key
- Building major scales with the whole-and-half-step pattern, plus tempo and dynamics terms
How it works
Reading and theory activities are tap-a-choice quizzes over a real music staff, with the sound played back on reveal. Ear-training and rhythm modes play tones or a metronome and grade how closely kids tap back the beat. There's also a tap-to-play xylophone that lights up as it plays familiar tunes.
Kids can play without signing in; guest stars stay until you reload or close the page. A grown-up signs in once and adds a player for each kid, so NoteQuest's stars and progress save to your account and follow you to any device.
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Ready to play NoteQuest?
It's free and has no ads. Diffy measures product use to improve the service. Ages 6–12.