Capstone — Ear Training Mastery & Final Piece
Twenty-four weeks of theory converge here. Demonstrate Advanced mastery across every RITHM game and ship a final piece that brings it all together.
Learning Goals
What You Have Built
Across 24 weeks you moved from the musical alphabet to jazz harmony, from reading a staff to writing and transposing your own melody. This capstone asks you to demonstrate that growth and set a practice plan for the years ahead.
The Final Piece
Write and perform a 16-bar piece that shows off your new skills. Use a secondary dominant or a borrowed chord. Include a melodic motif developed over at least two phrases. Transpose the melody by ear into a second key at the end for variety.
Self-Assessment
Which games still feel hard? Where is your ear strongest? Answer honestly — then bake it into your ongoing practice.
A Sustainable Practice Plan
15-20 minutes a day of RITHM, rotating through games. One longer weekly session to apply theory to real music. Keep playing, keep writing, keep listening.
Capstone Activities
Activity 1: Compose and Perform a 16-Bar Final Piece
Using the Synthesizer and Metronome, compose and perform a 16-bar piece. Include at least one secondary dominant or borrowed chord. Record or notate it. This is your capstone — take your time.
Activity 2: Interval Mastery Capstone
Reach 40 correct with 85%+ accuracy in Interval Training on Advanced.
Activity 3: Chord Identification Capstone
Reach 40 correct with 85%+ accuracy in Chord Identification on Advanced.
Activity 4: Scale Identification Capstone
Reach 40 correct with 85%+ accuracy in Scale Identification on Advanced.
Activity 5: Chord Progression Capstone
Reach 30 correct with 80%+ accuracy in Chord Progression Identification on Advanced.
Activity 6: Pitch Identification Capstone
Reach 30 correct with 80%+ accuracy in Pitch Identification on Advanced.
What's Next?
Completing the 24-week curriculum is a real achievement — but it's a beginning, not an end. Here's how to keep growing:
- Daily Practice: 15-20 minutes a day across the RITHM games. Rotate to keep every skill sharp.
- Apply to Real Music: Analyze songs you love. Identify the key, the form, the progressions, the motifs.
- Write More: Compose a new 16-bar piece every week. Transpose one of your old pieces into a new key.
- Explore Further: Counterpoint, orchestration, production, and advanced jazz vocabulary await.
- Compete: Stay on the Leaderboard and keep pushing your scores.