Better Ears - Ear Trainer 4+

Music & Ear Training

MAMP GmbH

    • 4.8 • 14 Ratings
    • $14.99

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Description

»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.

What’s New

Version 3.7

- fixed problems with Dropbox Sync
- minor bugfixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
14 Ratings

14 Ratings

Kyle Meldgaard ,

Dropbox Sync still does not work!

Have tried contacting support to no avail. Just have to hope that one day I can Sync my custom levels that I make and all the statistics that go with. I use Better Ear on three devices, iMac, iPad Pro and an iPhone.

Joe Jeremiah ,

Ideas for a great app

I have been using Karajan for a while now and I honestly believe my aural abilities have improved because of this. I use the intervals, chords, scales and pitch sections daily. I really wish this app had a section that played melodies and then asked you to identify the notes used in order. That would complete this app for me! Also I wish that your scores would be displayed when holding the screen horizontally as well. Great app and with a few improvements would be the perfect aural trainer!!

PersonNo9754 ,

Very nice app, but could be even better

Karajan is a great app that solves the problem of trying to find someone willing to sit at the piano and help you with your ear training. It also makes it possible to do yor drills away from the piano (e.g. on the train).

Some suggestions:
1. Add a mode for melodic dictation where you get to chooose how many notes; range to work within; specific keys / any key; scales (jazz / classical); show first note / don't show first note; melody only / melody and rhythm. So, the system plays a melody and you have to play it back
2. Add a mode for chord changes (much like melodic dictation above e.g. ii V7 i etc)
3. To improve learning, add a setting where the user can specify how many times to repeat an item the user got wrong. e.g. it plays a C# and user thought it was a C - play the C# 3 more times to enforce it before continuing to the next note.
4. It looks like theres a slight bug with the statistics - with pitch stats, it looks like the number of right and wrong notes doesn't add up to the total after exiting and starting the app again
5. Build in some intelligence that learns and remembers the user's weaknesses and works on them (e.g. user gets minor thirds confused with minor 6ths - the app should test minor 3rds and sixths more often than intervals the user always gets right

Please don't take the above a criticism - its already a great app! These ideas just to make it even better

App Privacy

The developer, MAMP GmbH, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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