Functional Ear Trainer

[App] Functional Ear Trainer

Functional Ear Trainer : Have you (or 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 the Alain Benbassat’s program called “Functional Ear Trainer” and have been using it ever since. It is based on the 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 an Android app based on the Alain’s method. I hope you will find it useful.

Credits:
This app has been created using libGDX game engine.

Functional Ear Trainer user reviews :

Really cool app, but the random is weird: I’ve got like 12 tonics in one session (C major – many octaves). upd: Seems like the random thing has been fixed. Thanks! (If not, I thought maybe it considers 1st and 8th tone as different, so there are twice more probability then others, which is not so productive, as tonic is the easiest). Another thing, which is pretty annoying: the sound of the piano sounds like it’s played on too much velocity. This makes the sound too harsh and unpleasant to hear, especially for cadence chords (for notes it’s more or less ok actually)

Simple but it works Elegant app that does one thing well. Ear training is a life-long project and no one exercise will get you there, but this could be one useful piece. There are some odd choices: Every note is resolved by a rising or falling scale to the nearest root, when e.g. it’s more common for the sixth to the fifth and the flat seventh to the sixth. And notes are named without regard to the resolution–if you insist on resolving to Ti, then Li would be a better name than Se, for example.

It’s helping! I can distinguish notes now. I’ve never thought I can do this. I am currently at very early stage, but I am going to take more time for practicing

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