Better Ears - Ear Trainer

Have tried contacting support to no avail. Just have to hope that one day I can Sync my custom levels that I make and all the statistics that go with. I use Better Ear on three devices, iMac, iPad Pro and an iPhone.

I love this app! Yes of course there are always differences in how naming chords is done all over the world, but for my purposes using it daily has made my chord recognition so much quicker. Would love the feature/option to hear chords again sounded out melodically in testing mode after a wrong choice. But that's not a criticism. Best, most compact ear training system I've found.

I found this app to be limited and a little clumsy in its use of nomenclature. The main areas I use it for are chord and chord progression recognition. The main issues for me are: 1. All chords are played in root position. This includes when played in a chord progression. 2. The nomenclature used for naming chords is very clumsy and not a standard form by any means (e.g. Better Ears writes Dominant 7th 6 (7/6), but this chord is universally recognised as a Dominant 13th). This is one of many chord writing discrepancies. 3. Similar to the above, the Roman Numeral system used to identify chord progressions (widely used in classical music, and jazz, but also called Nashville Numbering) isn't always theoretically correct (e.g. Better Ears calls one particular progression I-v. This is really V-ii, as there is no such thing as a minor v chord). This can make it unnecessarily confusing to decipher what you're hearing! Semantics, maybe, but developing aural skills is really about identifying musical theory in a practical, "heard" context. If you're learning the wrong language to identify what you're hearing then you're doing yourself a disservice and will have to correct this at a later stage (sure, you could identify a major triad as a carrot, a minor triad as an apple, etc, but that's not going to mean anything to another musician).

This is a great starting app. Good for interval lid recognition, scale and chord recognition and progressions. The updated app is very good with two reservations - why isn't there "melodic and rhythmic" training (much like in real music) and why is the keyboard so small. Otherwise I highly recommend it

I have been using Karajan for a while now and I honestly believe my aural abilities have improved because of this. I use the intervals, chords, scales and pitch sections daily. I really wish this app had a section that played melodies and then asked you to identify the notes used in order. That would complete this app for me! Also I wish that your scores would be displayed when holding the screen horizontally as well. Great app and with a few improvements would be the perfect aural trainer!!

After many problems this expensive app has become very frustrating and does not work. It will only play intervals now and rarely. Rebooting constantly is an ugly option on my new iPhone 4. I sent complaint months ago but no response.

I hate the use of the word "awesome" because it is so overused - but it is the only word that describes this app. It is the most awesome aural training tool I've come across. Awesome!

This is an excellent ear training program, However it often fails to play the aural examples on my iPhone 3GS with my current operating system. The only fix is to restart my phone which rapidly becomes very inconvenient. An aural training program that you can't hear is problematic.

Finally an update on the sounds! And the new colours interface looks cool too. The piano is much much better now, and the nylon guitar sounds good; and truthfully I'm actually really quite impressed with the organ sound! Chuck on some headphones and the organ is a really good sample! Same with the other sounds too, use headphones and your experience is much better. However this update doesn't seem to be running properly. It boots up and runs fine, except for the fact the sounds won't play...This isn't everytime but truthfully it is happening more and more often over the last week an half with this new update. I did'nt mind a whole lot because you just turn the phone off then back on again, but 10days later it's really starting to get annoying its nearly everytime i open the app now no sound comes out! It's not my phone either, because I will immediately test all other apps etc and they are fine. So something is wrong with the sound playback there..sopmething to do with the new sounds???(Which again, are very nice sounds now!lol...when they work) Other little reccomendations *The ascending/descending arrow button should have a third option, up and down!! For scales this is a must! This goes for intervals too, I want to be able to work on ascending and descending without having to go into options to change it! *Also I find it sort of annoying in landscape mode when practicing intervals, that you only touch the answer. At least practically speaking it is much more beneficial to play the pitched note followed by the answer. For example like in the app 'Interval'

Problem with generating chords on iphone. Distortion and delay in production. Inaccuracies in pitch.