Welcome to Mankunku

Jazz ear training — call and response. Pick your instrument to get started.

Liner notes

Documentation

A guide to using Mankunku for jazz ear training and lick practice. Start with Welcome if you're new, or skim How to Practice for a quick tour of the practice loop. The "How It Works" section explains what the app is doing on your behalf — scoring, the daily key, levels — in musical terms.

First Steps

Welcome What Mankunku is, what it does for your ears, and how to start.How to Practice A walk through the practice loop — what you hear, what you play, what gets scored.

Tunes

Your Tunes Building a songbook — charting by hand, importing, and adopting whole song forms.Playing Over Tunes The scored session over a real form: insertion points, the three modes, and the head rule.

How It Works

The Practice Modes Side A (Ear Training), Side B (Lick Practice), and Tune Practice — when to use each.How Scoring Works What the app rewards, what it forgives, and why the score lands where it does.How the App Listens What the microphone hears, why the room matters, and what to expect from pitch detection.The Daily Key A new key + scale every day. Why it rotates, and how new tonalities unlock.Levels & Difficulty How the difficulty climbs as you improve — and what each level adds musically.The Lick Catalog Where the licks come from, what the categories mean, and how transposition keeps them on your horn.

Reference

Scales & Lick Categories Every scale and every lick category, with the harmonic context they belong to.Glossary Jazz terminology used throughout the app, defined in plain language.