ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6-8 4+

Aural practice made easy

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) Limited

    • £7.99

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Description

The OFFICIAL ABRSM Aural Trainer contains interactive challenges to help develop your music aural skills (listening skills). Anyone can use it, but it is designed around ABRSM’s aural tests for Grades 6 to 8. The app can be used in any order, however often you like, on your own or with your teacher.

Use ABRSM Aural Trainer to:
• Exercise your musical memory (remember how music sounds and be able to repeat it).
• Develop your confidence and accuracy at sight-singing (reading and singing the music you see).
• Improve your recognition of cadences, chords and modulations.
• Learn to describe texture, structure, dynamics, articulation, tempo and tonality.
• Practise identifying the features in music that make-up its style and character.
• Develop the skills to know when a piece of music was written.

The app covers the following ABRSM aural test content:
• Melodic Repetition
• Sight-singing
• Cadences
• Chords
• Modulations
• Musical Features
• Rhythmic Repetition
• Metre

All exercises are fully interactive. Each one gives you the opportunity to repeat the question, or to compare your response to the correct answer and hear the music again . The app also features supporting tools including a cadence trainer, progress tracker and guides to the aural tests in ABRSM graded music exams.

Many exercises are automatically marked by the application. Self-review and critical listening are also key to successful development of the musical ear, which is why the app provides tools for you to review and evaluate your performance against sample responses in all cases. Your progress is logged whenever you use the app, so you can always see at a glance the areas you might want to revisit.

What’s New

Version 2.3

Fixing bugs for previous iOS versions

Ratings and Reviews

3.4 out of 5
55 Ratings

55 Ratings

Fieldfare Girl ,

Useful but glitchy

I am a mature student using the app to revise for my grade 7 piano exam; generally it is helpful but there are a number of glitches, particularly in the Cadence and Musical Features section. The same piece kept being repeated in the Cadence section while the app has a tendency to quit halfway through the Musical Features section. As others have said, for such a pricey app, this is not great. I would also agree with the reviewer who complained that answers are marked wrong when they were partly correct eg. 2 out of 3 features were correctly identified.

Sue 3445 ,

Overall very helpful

I find this app very helpful overall as I am not a natural for the aural part of the exam. I am working on grade 6, there are a few things which could be improved I think. For sight singing, the examples I have seen are much shorter than the ABRSM printed examples and I assume those in the actual exam. In the musical features part of the app, it is a pity you only get to see the areas to be questioned as the music starts. This means I always miss the first part of the piece while I take in the written information. Perhaps the music could be started 5 or so seconds after the question areas appear.

DB387 ,

Very Useful

This App is great for practice & I suggest it to many of my students to use at home. I am a little worried as to whether all answers were accurate though. The first grade 6 cadence practise that came up was clearly an imperfect cadence but when selecting imperfect it said it was wrong I did many others following and they were all 100% correct. I wouldn’t mind if it was just for me but when you’re showing someone how to use the app it kind of makes you look a little silly for that to happen. I was wondering if anyone else had this issue or whether it was truly a mistake on my part.

Developer Response ,

Hi DB387,
Thank you for your comment. We would be keen to hear from you with a detailed description of the error you perceive so we can advise you further. Please write to auraltrainer@abrsm.ac.uk so we can assist you.

App Privacy

The developer, The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) Limited, 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 Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • User Content
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

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

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