Aural Skills Training
Learn how to hear music!
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Sharpen your ear with our ear training app! Aural Skills Trainer tests your musical ear and helps you with intervals, chords, scales, melodies, rhythm and now harmonies!
Practice your ear training with Aural Skills Trainer!
Learn from the ground up and test yourself on these topics:
- Intervals
- Chords
- Scales
- Melodic Dictation
- Rhythm
------ HARMONY ------ NEW!!!
Download now and start the path to becoming a better musician, prepare for the AP Music Theory test or music class, or just open your ears and improve your musicianship!
Benefits:
- Training section to get ear training started: review the basics of intervals, chords and scales, and practice individual examples of each of those topics until you’ve mastered them
- Musical examples for context and hearing how each big idea fits together
- Ear training quiz questions with immediate feedback
- Listen as many times as needed to the questions and answers to reinforce what you’re hearing
- Developed by music theorists with ear training teaching experience
- AP Music Theory contains a significant listening component (including melodic dictation) and this will help you practice as much as needed
More details:
Music takes practice, but nobody can do it alone and we’re here to help. Are you a student looking to work on your aural skills, ear training or musicianship class? Have you been a lifelong musician and want a chance to learn more about the music you’ve been playing? Or maybe you're a curious music lover? You’re in the right place!
You’ll have a chance to learn about intervals, chords, scales, melodic dictation and common practice era harmonies with our training section. Then you’ll get to practice what you learned with our quiz mode. We have relevant examples with musical context to help make what you're listening to fun and interesting.
Difficulty settings allow you to focus on your current ability. For example, if you’re already comfortable with major and minor chords, skip straight to 7th chords. If chords feel like too much for now, start with going over intervals first and work your way up. You can limit what you get quizzed on: if you prefer to focus only on what’s introduced in a higher difficulty (the intermediate scale difficulty is primarily modes and pentatonic scales, for instance), you can be quizzed on just that. Or you can make the quiz cumulative and include all the easier difficulties as well as the one selected. Fine tune for your learning!
Box Metaphor Studios is committed to providing a musical experience to help you become a more well-rounded musician. We are always open to feedback on our musical goals, as well as any other comments or concerns around our app. Thanks for including us in your musical journey.
Any issues or concerns? Contact us at support@boxmetaphorstudios.com or check out https://boxmetaphorstudiosinfo.com for additional information.
Based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The team that made this possible:
Nathan Foxley, M.M., music theorist, full-stack developer
Steven Mathews, Ph.D., music theorist
James Lloyd, designer, artist
Derek Schaible, church organist
Ratings & Reviews
-New topic added: Harmony!
--Everything you need for the AP Music Theory test is included in our new harmony section! Learn about different chord progressions, then quiz yourself on the level you’re ready for. Topics covered go through secondary dominants, and all of the common practice diatonic chords and inversions. This includes second inversion chords, 7th chord inversions, and more.
-Minor bug fixes
The developer, Nathan Foxley, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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- Location
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Information
- Seller
- Nathan Foxley
- Size
- 140.1 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
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- Copyright
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