![]() These levels follow a particular algorithm and when they hit about 99-100%, you are good to move to the next level. The Progress levels indicate how far the user has gone with a particular training. Trains your ear to recognize 4 notes first, before it progresses the training to the 12 notes in both the major and minor scales. Slow, steady and efficient training from 4 notes of the scale of one key to the full 8 notes of random keys, on various octaves. Lets you train by levels and also involves interval recognition in the Advanced Level – accessible from Advanced Settings ‘Learn the method’ is the welcome speech. It is imperative to state here that progress is gradual and will only be attained if the advice in the Learn The Method section below is keenly taken Fig 3.o – First Stop. Words have not yet been invented to describe the features contained in the app as apart from being systematic, there is also a overall grading system which indicates a graph of the user’s performance. Fig 2.0 – Homepage of the Android version After the correct answer, the tone resolves into the nearest tonic, as a result your brain becomes accustomed to the main characteristics of the tone and it will be easier for you to recognize it in future. The cadence establishes the sound of the key in your head. Fig 1.0 – Functional Ear Trainer for WindowsĪlso according to the app, it works with questions and at the beginning of the question a cadence(subject to choice) in a particular key is played. The main difference between the Functional Ear trainer and other methods is that it teaches you to distinguish between tones in a context of a particular key…Īnd over time, you will be able to determine tones in a melody and transcribe them to paper as soon as you hear them…Īnd that as much summarizes it. It would also give ecstasy to know that it has Windows, Android and iOS support.Īccording to Serhii Korchan, the developer that is credited for the android app , While seeking redemption from a blunt ear, i searched the ends of the earth until God blessed me with Functional Ear Trainer, which in my own view is the simplest, yet most effective free ear trainer in Mars and Jupiter. Functional Ear Trainer is a program that was originally written by musician/computer programmer Alain Benbassat to help improve his own ear, available for free at miles.be. Also since ALL pianists (and musicians in general) have had one ear training or the other, that means they were once frustrated, yet patient and resilient. Underline that gradually, because it is indeed a gradual process which requires a Masters degree in Patience! Yes Patience Science. Although it sounds like a session with an infamous reputation, it gradually opens the students’ ears and they learn (the hard way) how to pick out those notes. In standard piano education settings, students undergo endless and rigorous sessions where a note is played and they are asked to recognize and reproduce that note without eyes on the piano. If you are here, i suppose you have gone through Ear Training 1, the first post concerning Ear training, sol-fa notations and chords.Īs understood by the previous post, an master pianists, hears the sol-fa notes of any song in his head which makes him able to play the a fitting chord or even improvise. Playing melodies by ear, transcribing by ear (writing music down)- call it whatsoever, but the goal is to learn to recognize and reproduce each of the notes of the scale by their sol-fa names.
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