What is the Trope Tutor?

A free interactive tutor for the Torah cantillation marks. Learn mode teaches each mark's symbol, names, and melody with real chanted examples; Phrases shows every line of the printed chart on a full staff; Drill mode quizzes you three ways with per-mark mastery tracking.

What melody tradition is this?

The recordings are PocketTorah's, chanted in the Spiro (Conservative) melody; the staffs follow the Avery/Binder (Reform) charts. Both Ashkenazi and Sephardi trope names are shown, and you can switch the primary naming tradition in settings.

What are trope (te'amim)?

Cantillation marks printed above and below the words of the Hebrew Bible. Each mark names a melodic phrase and marks the grammar of the verse — together they tell you how to chant it.

How does Drill mode work?

Each session asks 5, 10 or 20 questions (your choice) of three kinds: see a marked word and name the trope, hear a clip and pick the symbol, or see a symbol and pick the matching melody. Marks you miss come up more often, and distractors get sneakier (like pashta vs. kadma) as your mastery grows.

Where do the chanted examples come from?

Every example is a real word from the Torah reading, clipped from PocketTorah's recordings (by Russel Neiss & Rabbi Charlie Schwartz, CC BY-SA 4.0) using their word-level timings. The Hebrew text comes from Sefaria.

Is the Trope Tutor free?

Yes. Materials that incorporate PocketTorah audio are CC BY-SA 4.0; other IvritSuite content is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. No account required, no ads.

Can I print a chart of all the trope marks?

Yes. In Learn mode, the Print chart button prints all 26 marks as one reference sheet — each mark's symbol with its Ashkenazi and Sephardi names, grouped by clause family.

What does the Phrases tab show?

Every line of the printed cantillation chart, marks as they are sung together, on a full music staff you can play, in the year-round, High Holiday or Haftarah melody and in any key. Each phrase lists real verses where the Torah sings it, with PocketTorah's recording for the year-round melody, and the whole chart prints on one sheet.

Trope Tutor — Learn Torah Cantillation (Te'amim)

Names & Tradition

Primary trope names

Ashkenazi Sephardi

The recordings themselves follow PocketTorah's Spiro (Conservative) melody either way.

Melody

Year-round High Holidays Haftarah BETA

The staffs and their play buttons follow this choice — the Avery/Binder (Reform) melody for Year-round and High Holidays. The recordings and the drill use PocketTorah's Spiro (Conservative) year-round melody either way.

Sing along

Key

Voice

High voices Low voices

Low voices hear every tune an octave lower, the way men sing the chart. The staffs keep their notes and show a small 8 under the clef.

Note names

Off A B C Do re mi

Writes a name under every note, and it lights up with its note as the tune plays. Do re mi starts from the note the key is named after (in A major, do is A), so the names stay the same in any key.

Tune speed

1.00×

How fast every staff's tune plays. The recordings have their own speed, under Drill.

Play each tune

Once Twice 3 times

Pause to sing it back

After each play the staff turns dashed and its notes light up again in time, with no sound, so the class can sing it back.

Drill

Question types

Identify: see a word → name the trope

Hear: play a clip → pick the symbol

Melody: see a symbol → pick its melody

Playback speed

1.00×

The recordings' speed. The staffs' tunes have their own, under Sing along.

Hebrew Font

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Hebrew size

Progress

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About

Trope Tutor teaches the Torah cantillation marks with real chanted examples mined from PocketTorah recordings (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Sefaria's Hebrew text. New here? Press Tour in the header. Companion reader: Torah Trainer.

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