![]() It's also got a fairly unique feature where next to each interval name is a button that lets you hear that specific interval. It gives you a choice between ascending, descending or both, and you can tick the checkboxes next to each interval to determine which ones you want to train on. ![]() It's nice and simple, and it does the job. Here's one I used one time the night before an exam when was inaccessible. IWasDoingAllRight gives you quite a lot of control over your training session with options for the tempo, the delay between plays, and allowing you to select the key center and starting cadence. It's always encouraging when the app's author uses their own software for training, and that's the case with this one. It's a free, web-based option that doesn't only do intervals, but chords and melodies too. With a name like that, this one is hard to miss. You can grab a copy of EarMaster starting from $70. Spend too much time with EarMaster and you'll ruin recreational music listening forever because you won't be able to stop analyzing it It has a ridiculous number of trainers: interval comparison, identification and singing, chord identification, progressions, and (ack!) inversions, scale identification, rhythm reading, imitation, dictation, and correction, and melodic dictation. Where Ricci Adam's trainer got me through tests, I know a few people who did quite well with help of EarMaster. It has a pretty spartan, down-to-business interface, not that this is necessarily a bad thing.Īuralia is available for Windows and Linux. It'll also test you on scales and your recall of various rhythms. This free and open source ear trainer does a range of things, including singing and identify intervals and chords. I've mainly listed because outside of web apps, it's damn hard to find ear training software for the Mac.Īuralia is available for Windows and Mac. The pricing is a little overzealous: $199 for the average user or $99 for students, but it's money well spent if you intend to make ear training a long-term habit and go beyond just basic interval training. ![]() It allows you to train and test yourself on a range of things, from intervals and inversions (yeah, I never quite got those by ear either) to scales and rhythms. While you're at it, explore the rest of .Īuralia is pretty popular, especially among music educators. Start with minor seconds, move up to major seconds and minor thirds, and so on.Ĭheck it out here. For what it's worth I do recommend not trying to train on the whole set at first, just like muscle training. This ear trainer lets you hear ascending and descending intervals, and lets you choose which intervals to test at any given time. It has an Interval Trainer and an Interval Ear Trainer in the menu, so be sure to pick the one with "Ear" in it-unless you want to learn to see intervals on sheet music. One of those trainers is an Interval Ear Trainer and I confess that this is the one that got me a passing grade on tests. Ricci Adam's is a well-respected site that offers loads of great lessons and trainers. We'll be bringing you an article from the AudioJungle archives each Sunday (or sometimes Friday).ġ. This article was previously published on the AudioJungle blog, which has moved on to a new format in 2010. Most of these go beyond intervals, of course. This time, we're going to look at a bunch of applications and websites that will help you with regular ear training sessions. If you haven't read it, head on over to Boot Camp for Your Ear. ![]() If you followed along with us a few weeks ago, you know how much interval ear training can help you as a musician and how to get started with training itself.
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