»Better Ears« is an educational Music Theory and Ear Training app, which helps you grow your musical skills and enhance your hearing capabilities. There are 13 different exercises included, starting from interval recognition all the way down to chord progressions - perfect for beginners and music-masters alike! YOU DECIDE HOW TO TRAIN! With »Better Ears« you can decide for yourself what your training routine should look like. There are no rules you have to follow, you decide when to start and how often to practice. 13 DIFFERENT EXERCISES INCLUDED »Better Ears« includes 13 different exercises: • Interval recognition • Scale recognition • Chord recognition • Chord progressions • Pitch recognition • Melodic dictation • Tempo recognition • Key Signature recognition • Music reading • Interval music reading • Scale music reading • Chord music reading • Melody music reading CUSTOM CHORDS, SCALES AND CHORD PROGRESSIONS The new editor for Chords, Scales and Chord Progressions allows you to add your own items. 6 DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS Choose your training sound out of six different instruments. Better Ears comes with Acoustic Grand piano, Bright Acoustic Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Drawbar Organ, Nylon Acoustic Guitar and Steel Acoustic Guitar. CUSTOM SOUNDS WITH SOUNDFONTS With the help of SoundFonts (.sf2) you have the possibility to extend Better Ears with your own sounds. KEYBOARD AND FRETBOARD »Better Ears« comes with a virtual keyboard and virtual guitar fretboard. You can key notes on either. ANSWER WITH YOUR VOCALS OR WITH A REAL INSTRUMENT The integrated pitch detection allows you to answer the questions with your voice or a real instrument (e.g. piano or guitar). Simply play the individual tones on your instrument or sing them when the microphone button lights red. FOUR PRESET LEVELS »Better Ears« ships with four preset levels: • Beginner • Easy • Normal • Professional UNLIMITED CUSTOM LEVELS Additionally you can create your own levels, letting you train to your own specific needs. Put yourself in "Training Camp" to learn church modes, or concentrate on those two pesky intervals that constantly cause you problems. SYNC ALL OF YOUR DEVICES With »Better Ears« you can keep your Mac and your iOS devices in sync. You can choose what to sync: Your own levels, your statistics, your settings or all of this. MIDI SUPPORT »Better Ears« supports routing sound through an external MIDI device, allowing you to use your existing MIDI master keyboard or sound module. You can even control »Better Ears« using a connected keyboard. STATISTICS For every exercise »Better Ears« knows all your current stats, including how often you have answered each question correctly or incorrectly. WIKIPEDIA INTEGRATION »Better Ears« shows the relevant Wikipedia article for the current exercise. If a relevant article is not available online, another topically-appropriate article will be shown instead.
Excellent
Excellent app. The best ear training app. Highly recommend!!!
Excellent
Excellent app
Interval training
I think this is a good program and I use it daily. One critique is that the interval training doesn’t use a key signature; and if I had a wish list for an update it would be to include that. It’s easy to identify intervals in C; the next level would be to add key signatures and then double flats etc. Otherwise that portion is for beginners only. Also, including inversions in the chord recognition and chord progressions would help in that area to make it more comprehensive. Great program overall though.
Does not play over blue tooth
Left with crappy phone speakers or headphones.
Better ears = better musician
must have for all musician, beginner to advanced
Interval Training
I’m finding this app very helpful leaning my intervals. I’ve used other simpleton apps and I was struggling but with this app I’m extremely pleased with my progress. Although, it could be just that I’ve spent more time on my piano since my first run at interval training. I find the keyboard at the bottom with the starting note labeled and able to play it with triggering it as ‘your answer’ very helpful for the learning phase. It’s also great practice to count-off your intervals on the keyboard for transferring your answer to the visual interval on the keyboard. I’m sure it’s me but this thing is addicting and I can’t wait for the next session and am racking up two or three short practice sessions a day because of the extreme convenience of using an iPad.
Note recognition broken
Program runs but for some reason does not detect notes lower than the b string on my guitar. In its defense another program has the same issue but just one other. The rest work fine. I submitted support tickets but got no response. For 10 bucks the app should work. Not free
- fixed problems with Dropbox Sync - minor bugfixes
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