Your instrument. Your daily practice.
Develop your ear.
Build your
vocabulary.
Hear more. Find your own musical voice.
Connect what you hear with what you play. Train your ear, develop a vocabulary of licks and melodic devices, and put it to work over real tunes.
Listen & respond · D major
From your ear to your instrument.
Listen closely. Play it back.
Two sides. One musical voice.
A better ear.
More to say.
Build the connection between hearing an idea and making it part of your playing.
Ear Training
Listen & respond
Hear it. Play it back.
Listen to a phrase, then answer on your instrument. Mankunku listens through your microphone and gives you feedback on pitch and rhythm.
Let your ear lead.
Find it on your instrument.
Hear where to focus.
Explore keys and scales with difficulty that adapts as you improve. Review your attempts and return to the details that need attention.
Train your ear ↗Vocabulary
Licks + Tricks
Build a musical language.
Develop ideas to draw on when you improvise, through phrases you make your own and devices you can apply in new ways.
01 · Licks
Phrases you make your own.
Collect, write, or record musical ideas. Build fluency across keys and tempos, with Deep Practice where you need it.
Explore licks ↗02 · Tricks
Devices that open possibilities.
Explore enclosures and triad pairs. Learn how they work, vary their patterns, and bring them into your own playing.
Explore tricks ↗Where vocabulary becomes music
Put it to work.
Over real tunes.
A phrase becomes more useful when you can hear where it belongs.
Follow the melody and changes through complete song forms. Get suggestions for where your vocabulary fits, work through scored practice, or choose Freestyle and explore.
Transpose for your instrument. Play with a generated rhythm section that follows the changes. Make connections beyond the practice exercise.
Explore tunes ↗Find a connection
Discover where material from your vocabulary fits the changes.
Make it personal
Bring the music
you want to learn.
Build your collection around your musical interests. Write a phrase, record a single-note idea and refine its transcription, or discover material shared by other musicians.
Create tune charts or import the music you already have.
Make every session count
A rhythm section.
A clearer next step.
Find your feel.
Generated bass, comping, and drums for lick and tune practice. Explore swing, bossa nova, ballad, and straight feel.
Know where to focus.
Use pitch and rhythm feedback, recorded takes, and progress views to understand your playing. Return to a difficult phrase or spend time in a weaker key.
Explore the community ↗Your next session starts here
Bring your instrument.
Follow your ear.
A little focused practice. More music at your fingertips.
What do I need?
A browser, your instrument, and a microphone for listening exercises and scored practice. Headphones help keep playback out of the microphone. Pitch tracking is designed for one note at a time.
Do I need an account?
You can begin practicing without one. Sign in to sync supported practice progress across devices and participate in the community.
How does community sharing work?
Licks and tunes you save while signed in are shared with the community by default. Discover other musicians’ material and make it part of your practice.
Under the hood
What Mankunku is, what it does for your ears, and how to start.
How Scoring WorksWhat the app rewards, what it forgives, and why the score lands where it does.
How the App ListensWhat the microphone hears, when it starts listening, why the room matters, and what to expect from pitch detection.
The Daily KeyOne key + scale at a time for ear training. Why it rotates, and how new tonalities unlock.