MusicReasonEar Training and Playable Exploration
Give me something new to sight-read
Choose a key, range, bar count, and rhythmic difficulty. This tool generates a bounded phrase combining both a pitch generator and a rhythm generator, each already constrained to fit your declared scale, range, and exact bar length. It does not assess how well you actually read the result.
Answer
Want to learn more? Reading and Writing Musical Pitch
Understand
A sight-reading exercise needs both a pitch dimension and a rhythm dimension to be genuinely readable practice, and both need bounds: notes confined to a declared key and range, durations confined to a declared difficulty vocabulary and bar length. This tool generates both dimensions independently, then combines them into one phrase per bar.
Worked examples
A four-bar exercise in C major within one octave keeps every generated note within that range and scale, and every one of its four bars sums to exactly four beats, regardless of the rhythmic difficulty chosen. The same seed regenerates the identical exercise, so a specific drill can be revisited or shared by seed value alone.
Method and limitations
Rhythm comes from the same bounded, seeded bar-filling generator Rhythm Reading Drill uses, guaranteeing an exact bar sum at the chosen difficulty; pitches are drawn only from the declared scale's notes that also fall within the declared range, matching Melody Imitation Trainer's own approach. This tool has no way to assess reading proficiency from generating the exercise alone; any such assessment would require observing an actual performance, which this tool does not capture.
The pitch and rhythm dimensions are generated independently and then zipped together bar by bar, so a given rhythmic difficulty does not by itself constrain how wide a melodic range the exercise draws from, and vice versa; a rhythmically simple exercise can still span a full octave, and a rhythmically demanding one can stay within a narrow five-note range. Choosing both dimensions separately lets a reading exercise target exactly the one skill you actually want to practice.