Functional Ear Trainer 4+
Ear training for everyone
Sergiy Korchan
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
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.
What’s New
Version 3.3.7
*** If you like Functional Ear Trainer, please take the time to give us a nice review: it really helps
1) 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.
Ratings and Reviews
This developer understands the problem!
The thing that makes this app different from the rest is that it understands that our challenge with music is to hear notes and intervals WITHIN a tonality. But that is also our benefit - we hear notes because of their sympathy or not with the key and their proximity to a note which is sympathetic. I am obsessed with the idea that everyone can learn when asked EXACTLY the right question. This app will ask you that question. And you can customise it so it is extremely targeted. Well done user - you found the needle in the haystack!
Helping finally click
I’ve tried ear training with apps before, not having put a mountain of effort in, but experiencing frustration when I’ve, after making seemingly solid progress, mistaken a perfect 5th for a major second or visa versa. And the more obscure intervals I might get a handle on during a session, but the feel wouldn’t crystallise between sessions.
The big difference with this app is the contextual mechanism it coaches you to employ, walking up or down the scale of the current ket to the nearest tonic. It’s simple, but for me has made a huge difference, to whereby having used the app for three days I’m correctly identifying obvious and a fair few of the more obscure intervals across sessions with good (not yet flawless) accuracy. And it doesn’t feel like I’m stumbling around in the dark!
All that and this app is free and well developed. There are a few glitches with the sound every so often when it’s like the processor wants to take a split-second nap, but other than that, it’s perfect.
Many thanks!
This app was made with love!
I don’t really understand music. Theory escapes me entirely. I sing in a choir but the score means very little to me. A friend suggested I start using this app and I keep getting slowly better and better, the other day I looked down at an unfamiliar score and realised I could sing it… I knew how to find the notes. They just suggested themselves to me. I’m so very grateful to the author for putting this little gem out there. It has granted me a whole new sense. Thank you.
App Privacy
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- Usage Data
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Information
- Provider
- Sergiy Korchan
- Size
- 40.9 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English, Bulgarian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021 Serhii Korchan
- Price
- Free