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Here's a comparison of Music Theory / Ear Training software. Click the links for more details and screen shots. If you made something interesting or have a related link email my gmail, username JimmyRuska. I will only check windows / linux compatible programs.
My interval ear trainer
Out of all the ear training software my free online ear trainer is the only one I've seen to associate songs to intervals. Other programs just give you a buzz when you're wrong or a ding when you're correct. If you ask how to get better on any forums they'll tell you to try and associate common songs to the intervals. Also I haven't seen any other ear training software with anything similar to my 'song mode' which lets you practice applied theory.
Ear Training and Music Theory Software
| Name | OS | Price | Trial | Status | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ear Training | Flash Compatible | Free | No | Fully Featured | Mine =) |
| GNU Solfege | Python Compatible | Free | No | Fully Featured | Awesome |
| EarMaster Pro 5 | Win / Mac | $30 | 3 Weeks | Fully Featured | Awesome |
| Auralia 4 Musition 4 | Win / Mac | $99 | Yes | Fully Featured | Good |
| Ear Toner | Java Compatible | Free | No | Many Features | Under rated |
| Teoria | Win | Free | Only | Many Features | Not in dev. |
| Tete | Java Compatible | Free | No | Few Features | Decent |
| FET | Win | Free | No | Few Features | Limited |
| MacGAMUT 6 | Win / Mac | $40 | Demo | Many Features | Worth < $20 |
| Earope | Win | $57 | Yes | Many Features | Worth < $20 |
| guido/Memoria | Win | Free | No | Portuguese | Good |
| InTacus/Dictus | Win/Mac | Free | No | Rhythm/Dictation | Specific, Good |
| iTrainer | Win | Free | No | Intervals | + Tuning |
| Big Ears | Win/Mac/Linux | $20 | Demo | Meh | Use Tete |
| Golden Ears | Audio CDs | $230 | No | x | Unique |
| Modal Ear | Mac | $20 | Yes | Many Features | Unique |
| MusicalGoals | Win | $100 | No | Many Features | Bad + expensive |
| ETDrill 3.1 | Win | $70 | Demo | Many Features | Outdated |
| Practica Musica | Win / Mac | $125 | No | Fully Featured | Worth < $50 |
| Dolce | Win | $20 | Yes | Few Features | Worthless. |
| PET | Win | $50 | 30 Days | Many Features | Outdated |
| Ear Power | Win | $25 | 7 Uses | Many Features | Outdated |
| Musiclab Melody | Win | $48 | No | Many Features | Outdated |
When I say something like "worth < $20" I mean to say I wouldn't pay more than $20 for it. Outdated means the program might have been worth that much 10 years ago but now there's better stuff for free. Practica Musica has a $45 student license but it takes away the ability to customize the exercises. Major feature removal rather than good content / exercises additions to differentiate between versions is just greedy.
Online Ear Training
| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| Ear Training | Orders of magnitude better than the rest |
| Teoria.com | Teoria.com has flash based exercises. |
| Learn2hear | Javabased online ear trainer with high score list. |
| Musical Mind | Several java ear trainers made by a professor at Lone Star College Montgomery |
| Good Ear | Midi based and simple but has chords, scales and more. |
| eMusicTheory.com | Several ear training interactive drills in java. |
| MusicTheory.net | Massive archive of music theory resource. |
| Doing Alright | Java Based ear trainer with many features. |
| Ear Training Book | Online ear trainer in shockwave accompanying a college ear training text |
| White Circle Music | Ear training and music product reviews |
| Sonicfit | Meh |
| MusicDNA | Web based trainer for intervals similar to good-ear style |
| Human Benchmark | Simple harmonic interval test. |
| Big ears | Java Based interval trainer. Very blah / slow loading. |
| Earplane | Shockwave based ear trainer |
| Teoria.net | Music theory database in English and Spanish |
Perfect Pitch Software Reviews
Most people that have perfect pitch (also known as absolute pitch) gain the ability before they're 6 years old, usually not remembering a time when they didn't have it. Learning it later in life has a very low success rate unlike relative pitch where measurable improvement by the day or week can be attained with practice.
Clear-up Common Misconceptions
- You do not need perfect pitch to be a good musician. People born with absolute pitch need to do ear training too.
- Relative pitch does not ruin your chances of getting absolute pitch.
- Reproducing a played sound by singing or by whistling is not perfect pitch, though it does prove to some degree learning perfect pitch is possible. Most musicians can do this. Muscle memory through repetition has trained exactly how you should shape your vocal chords. Muscle memory (neuromuscular facilitation) is not quite the same as the part of the brain you access to remember what you ate last Thursday.
- Don't believe the perfect pitch internet marketers. Burge, Graham english, and the new guy with slurred speech, ryan cameron, spend loads of money selling ads promoting their retarded ear training products that offer no more than guess and check methods. Just because it's expensive, doesn't mean it has some exotic secret the savants know, it just means they're spending a lot to spam you with their ads and they still want a huge profit margin.
| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| Perfect pitch software | My free program has an option to train absolute pitch under the first drop down menu, scroll down to perfect pitch. It has detailed statistics on your mistakes so you can track progress. |
| Prolobe | Many exercises, features. |
| Pitch Coach | Straight forward with decent features |
| Flash Perfect Pitch trainer in Portuguese | |
| PitchPlayer | ? |
| inPitch | too simple |
| earTest | I like it but, commercial, messes up my fonts |
| Silvawood Absolute Pitch | Commercial, not very logical. |
| Pitch Train | Commercial, demo, wants money for bad features, etc. |
| Herken | Missing alut etc,etc. Get it to work and it's still fail |
| David Lucas Burge Perfect Pitch Ear Training Supercourse | So much fail, so terrible. More hype and bragging than method. Constant repetition of the same sound bites and nonchalant anecdotes. Summary: Associate color, feeling, anything to each note and guess and check using your most familiar instrument. Which color to which note is up to you. F# is twany teeheheee |
| Graham English Absolute Pitch Power | Absurdly Stupid. Hypnosis and raising IQ BS. |
| Ryan Cameron 'Pure Pitch Method' | Slurred speech(eg says core instead of chords and other similar derps). CD starts off with pitch verse tone when he meant pitch versus timbre. Mistakes all over manual, mistakes all over the course. Worse advice than just asking in a normal musician forum, for only $100! This actually makes burge's course look like gold. |
Useful tools Tools
| name | description |
|---|---|
| hearing test | See what's the highest frequency you can hear. It gets worse with age. |
| Transcribe! | Commercial software to transcribe music. Free metronome, tuner and tuning fork. |
| dan's tuner | Displays frequencies based on fast fourier transforms |
| Accordeur | Improvement on dan's tuner |
| virtual piano | High quality |
| virtual piano | more simple |
| guitar tuner | |
| metronome / another | |
| rhythm tool in Portuguese | |
| tone deaf test | |
| Rhythm deaf test | |
| which note is higher | |
| ear IQ bs |
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Posted on Thursday, August 7 2008
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