Music theory made easy and fun: EarMaster is the ultimate app for your ear training, sight-singing practice, rhythmic workout and vocal training at all skill levels! Thousands of exercises will help you build up your musical skills and become a better musician. Try it, it's not just fun to use but also very efficient: some of the best music schools use EarMaster!
"The exercises are so well thought out, and have so much to offer both the complete beginner and the most world class musicians alike. Being an instructor at Nashville Music Academy, I can say this app has developed my ear and my students ear to a level that would have taken many more years to develop, if at all, without it." - User review by Chiddychat
AWARDS
“Best App of the Month” (App Store, Jan 2020)
NAMM TEC AWARDS nominee
Music Teacher Awards for Excellence nominee
INCLUDED IN FREE VERSION:
- Interval Identification (Customized Exercise)
- Chord Identification (Customized Exercise)
- 'Carmen – Habanera' (based on the iconic opera by Bizet)
- 'Call of the Notes' (call-response ear training course)
- 'Greensleeves' thematic course
- First 20+ lessons of Beginners Course
*Highlights*
BEGINNER'S COURSE - Acquire all the core music theory skills with hundreds of progressive exercises on rhythm, notation, pitch, chords, scales, and more.
COMPLETE EAR TRAINING - Train with intervals, chords, chord inversions, scales, harmonic progressions, melodies, rhythm, and more.
LEARN TO SIGHT-SING - Sing on-screen scores into the microphone of your iPad or iPhone and get immediate feedback on your pitch and time accuracy.
RHYTHM TRAINING - Tap! tap! tap! Sight-read, dictate and tap back rhythms, and get instant feedback on your performance.
VOCAL TRAINER - Become a better singer with progressive vocal exercises on vocalizes, scale singing, rhythmic precision, interval singing, and more.
SOLFEGE FUNDAMENTALS - Learn to use movable-do solfege, as easy as Do-Re-Mi!
MELODIA - Become a true sight-singing master with EarMaster's take on the classic sight-singing book method
AURAL TRAINER FOR UK GRADES - Prepare for ABRSM* Aural Tests 1-5 and similar exams
RCM VOICE* - Prepare for your RCM Voice exams from Preparatory level to Level 8.
CARMEN – HABANERA (free) - Explore the world of opera with this course based on the iconic opera by Bizet
CALL OF THE NOTES (free) - A fun and challenging course in call-response ear training
GREENSLEEVES (free) - Learn the English folk ballad Greensleeves with a series of fun exercises
CUSTOMIZE EVERYTHING - Take control of the app and configure your own exercises: voicing, key, pitch range, cadences, time limits, etc.
JAZZ WORKSHOPS - Exercises for advanced users with jazz chords and progressions, swing rhythms, jazz sight-singing and sing-back exercises based on jazz classics such as "After You've Gone", "Ja-Da", "St. Louis Blues", and many more.
DETAILED STATS - Follow your progress day by day to spot your strengths and weaknesses.
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE – Learn to sing and transcribe music by ear. Learn to use solfege. Plug a microphone or a MIDI controller to answer the exercises. And even more to explore on your own in the app :)
WORKS WITH EARMASTER CLOUD - If your school or choir is using EarMaster Cloud, you can connect the app with your account and complete your home assignments with the app.
*Not affiliated with ABRSM or RCM
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I never write reviews. This is my first ever. But when an app comes along that changes the way I practice, helps the way I teach, and provides a new way of hearing music, I couldn’t help but do a review. The exercises are so well thought out, and have so much to offer both the complete beginner and the most world class musicians alike. Being an instructor at Nashville Music Academy, I can say this app has developed my ear and my students ear to a level that would have taken many more years to develop, if at all, without it. Do yourself a favor, take the step, make the commitment to complete all the exercises, and watch yourself grow as a musician like you never thought possible. Albeit this is a tool, and what you do with it is up to you, but through this training you can truly take the phrase “if you can hear it, you can play it” to heart. Thank you to the entire EarMaster team.
Developer Response
Thanks a lot for your kind words!
Visible improvement
Birkabu
It’s an extremely useful app, I can see an obvious improvement after about three weeks of using it. I’m currently using the exercises (after purchasing the bundle). It’s really worth the money imho. One thing I’ve noticed though that I didn’t like so far is in the Chord inversions exercise when I make a mistake whether it was an augmented chord and not a diminished one, it logically should show the difference between the different chord types for the SAME key in my opinion and not based on the first note you hear. Or is there some kind of a setting where this can be changed?Otherwise, so far, I’m a very happy user. I use it daily for 45-60 minutes doing two rounds of each exercise type in my current exercise set.
Not For Baritones
*holden*
The pitch recognition algorithm used in EarMaster is terrible for baritone voice. For one, it maps unpitched vocal transients to pitches, but worse, it misidentifies non-octave vocal harmonics as the sung pitch which obviously results in poor scores for correctly sung notes. Very frustrating. Regarding the Solfege add-on, which i recently purchased, the solution for the pitch identification problem given in the EarMaster forum is to sing every note as “eee…e” (the vowel sound in “key”). While this improves pitch recognition, it breaks the important training association between the solfege symbol (do, re, mi, …) and the scale location of the sung note. It’s like selling someone a bicycle, then telling them it can only be ridden on one street or the chain will fall off. Per the forum, EarMaster has known about this problem for at least a year. Until the pitch recognition algorithm is fixed, beware of EarMaster exercises and add-ons that depend on pitch recognition, particularly if you are a baritone. If the exercise depends only on listening to tones, EarMaster has a deservedly good reputation.
EarMaster is really helping me a lot!
Joe DeC
EarMaster is not just for the youth and teens, but I love it and I am an older adult just now getting into music. I have a lot of catching up to do and EarMaster has tons of lessons designed to give users a thorough background from the basics on up. And all this for a nominal cost. Additionally, on occasion I have some technical, music-related questions and each time I have asked about something, I got a prompt and thorough response. I have much respect for this app and the people who put it together as well as what it can do to help others to become more musically talented. Hope this is helpful. Take care...
NEW FEATURES
* You can now find a description of the different home screen items (courses, workshops, etc.) in the Preferences.
BUG FIXES
* Tone ladder with absolute-do: The accidentals shown could be incorrect.
* Functional keyboard: The layout from the previous lesson is not shown when launching a new exercise.
* Clapping exercises: for claps with wrong duration ("Evaluate note length") the evaluation was using gray instead of red.
* ... and many minor adjustments and bug fixes.
Version 7.9.3
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