note-noodle vs Teoria

note-noodle provides interactive music theory practice for fretboard work, staff notation, ear training, rhythm, and play-along, alongside a guided curriculum. Play Along grades pitch and timing while a user plays through a microphone, MIDI keyboard, or screen. It accepts MIDI and Guitar Pro files up to 5 MB; free accounts can upload three per month. The curriculum has 35 lessons, quizzes, unit exams, spaced repetition, and seven learning paths. Ear training spans eight categories and four difficulty tiers, with answers by ear, MIDI, or microphone. Four digital instruments send per-note bend, slide, and pressure across up to 15 member channels; hearing per-note bend requires an MPE host such as Live 11. A MIDI Bridge connects those instruments to a desktop DAW over the local network. Free access includes 10 ear-training sessions per day and the first four lessons without an account. Premium costs €7 a month. The service runs on Android, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows.

Teoria.com is a free resource for studying music theory and practicing aural skills. Tutorials and reference material cover reading music, intervals, scales, chords, harmonic functions, and musical forms, with exercises for practice. Ear-training activities include melodic dictation, key and note recognition, and identifying harmonic progressions. Most exercises can accept answers from a MIDI keyboard in supported browser versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera. The HTML5 and JavaScript exercises are described as compatible with tablets and mobile devices subject to browser requirements, and access is listed for Android, iOS, and the web. Signing in is optional. Signed-in users can save scores, review activity, and download filtered records as PDF or TSV files, although older saved data may be deleted. Exercise links can be shared through email, webpages, Moodle, Blackboard, or social media. Content is available in English and eight additional languages.