Have you (or maybe one of your friends) ever wanted to learn to transcribe or play music by ear? It is so important for a musician to know what you are hearing. A good musical ear helps when you are composing, improvising, transcribing melodies, or playing with others. Most likely you have already tried different programs to learn to recognize intervals or even to acquire perfect pitch. However, although such programs develop your ear, but can you actually play any melody you hear as soon as you listen to it? Imagine you could understand music... It is like when somebody is talking to you, you not only hear pleasant sounds, but you recognize words and their meaning. One day I came across Alain Benbassat's program called "Functional Ear Trainer" and have been using it ever since. It is based on Alain's method to learn to recognize tones. The main difference between the Functional Ear Trainer and other methods is that it teaches you to distinguish between tones in the context of a particular musical key. You begin to recognize the role (or function) of each tone in this key, which is incredibly similar to its role in other keys of the same scale. And it is *guaranteed* anyone can gradually develop this skill. It does not matter: - who you are - an absolute beginner in music or a virtuoso professional musician; - how old you are - a 3 yo kid or a 90+ adult; - what musical instrument you play (you don't even have to play one). The only requirement is to practice for 10 minutes a day. I was so excited about this ear trainer that I have developed a mobile app based on the Alain Benbassat method. I hope you will find it useful.
Exactly what I’ve been looking (and listening) for…
I’ve been playing music over 60 years. But I never felt I really heard music relationally as well as I should. I’v tried various ways to train my ears, but none seem to really help me in any meaningful way. Using this app for two days has given me hope that I really will be able to train my ears. Thanks for such a straightforward application that does what it’s designed to do.
Best free ear training
Literally one of the best ear training apps and all for free! Being a trained musician for years I would highly recommend.
I came to learn, but also found something fun to do.
My ears are starting to catch on to the different characteristics of each note now thanks to this app!
Great app
Does what it says it does. Fun like a game. Play when you’re not at your instrument, and out and about. But where headphones cause it can annoy people with the repetitive cadences. Not sure if there’s a feature where you can only get a cadence every 5 questions. Great!
I love it
So easy to use and no nonsense stuff
Best ear trainer
I took 3 semesters of music theory, and this ear training is better than what I had in college. Amazing that it’s free. Thank you!
amazing
it does the trick
it really helps1) Intro Game for new users. You can remove it in the Main Settings. 2) Some simplifications in the design. Sorry for any inconvenience, these changes are important. 3) Daily Reminders (inside the Main Settings). 4) Sharing screenshots of your results on social networks. 5) Several new Basic Training → Play! mode Settings. 6) The advanced mode now plays 2 notes together by default.
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