Transform a Tune: Move It, Flip It, Play It Backwards
by Creouts Publishing © 2026
Price: $3 USD
Subjects: musicElementarySkills,musicEarTraining
Grades: 5,6,7
Description
STEP 19 of Ear Training Step by Step (also in the path bundle). Self-checking ear training for Grades 5-7: hear how a tune was changed: moved to a new key, flipped, played backwards or turned minor. 30 cards, 20 scored. THE MUSIC IDEA Composers reuse tunes: transposing (moving), inversion (flipping), retrograde (backwards), major to minor (mi drops a half step). J. S. Bach used flips and backwards tunes. HOW IT WORKS - 4 learn cards, including the four changes on the staff. - Round 1: hear the tune and a new version. Moved, flipped or backwards? - Round 2: the same, with minor added. - Round 3: new keys, three versions. Which is the named change? - Round 4: four staffs show the tune moved, flipped, backwards and minor. Hear one: which staff? - Reveal cards and a slow speaker. Relative pitch only; does not teach perfect pitch. SELF-CHECKING, WITH HELP WHEN STUCK - Boom scores every answer. - Two tap-to-show hints per question. - Equally loud notes; every version has the same length. ACCURACY Every answer is checked by our own software and by AI test solves from the cards and sounds alone, without the key. Not tested with a class. No process is perfect; if you spot an error, please tell us through the store's feedback. HOW IT WAS MADE Text written with AI assistance and fact-checked. All images and music notation are drawn in code; no AI image generators were used. All sounds are made in code. No AI voice. Needs sound. Plays in a browser; needs internet.
Acknowledgements
Music font: Bravura, (c) Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, SIL Open Font License 1.1. Text fonts: Atkinson Hyperlegible, (c) Braille Institute of America, SIL Open Font License 1.1; Fredoka, (c) The Fredoka Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1.