Ear Training by Musicopoulos

My biggest issue with the app is that it doesn’t encourage or support continued study. For instance. For interval training there are 6 stages. Within each stage are levels. It is totally lame that you can not select which level within a stage you would like to study or practice. You have to start each stage from the beginning. So if you want to rework level 5 inside stage 3, you’re going to have to go at it from the beginning. This goes for chords and scale sections as well. Super dumb and is why I no longer use it.

This app helped me in some ways and in others not so much. Auditory it has, but music is so much more than just the “listening” part. Maybe with the combination of a visual and auditory component the gap would be crossed. I think the app has some room to grow and develop. During the feedback process of getting an answer wrong it doesn’t go into much detail other than, you got this wrong and its part of this song. That’s great but what about a visual cue? Like an image of the notes on a piano so you could see what notes they were and where they fall with each other to better understand why you got the answer wrong. I think the simplicity of the app is very very appealing to on the go students (and mom's) like myself. I can almost do this anywhere, as long as I can hear what is going on. I can pop in a movie so my toddler can watch it for about an hour and I can be doing this during it and not be disturbed by her too much. I can do it while I'm waiting for a class or waiting for something. Pretty much any down time this app could be used to help build your ear. It would be cool if there was a vocal way of letting the app know so you could even do it during a long commute to work or school. Over all a great app and so glad my teacher introduced us to this and the musicopoulos package. It is well worth the buy. Coupled with Theory.net it has helped me through my theory and aural skills class this last quarter. I hope it will help many more students and eager learners of music just as it has to me.

This app covers a lot of areas and I feel I have really benefitted from it. I use it in 4 ways: Intervals, Scales, Chords and then I identify notation on a bass staff by tapping the note on an image of a bass guitar fingerboard. I have another app for reading rhythms notation. By doing both, I have learned to read music. And by doing all of these exercises, I have become a much better musician. All through two apps.

Absolutely helped me a lot

Makes me learn more about music, using others ways too. But good app

Repetition leads to mastery. If you dont have patience nor the drive to learn, don't bother downloading this app. However, if you want to expand your listening skills which many students tend to neglect, definitely get this app. Follow every and each instruction and if you feel lost, you should brush up you theory with the musicopoulos app. I've improved a great deal by using these apps along with other materials. Discipline is the key :)

Helpful, has some thought to the levels it guides you through. Occasionally will not make sound until I force close and restart.

Looks like this hasn't been updated in years, which is a real shame as some improvements would really help this shine. Agree with others that say it doesn't give you enough information about what is going wrong. For intervals, I have to sit in front of my piano and play the notes with it to hear the interval, see what it is make a note and try to figure out what is going wrong on my own. Which is pretty difficult being that I'm the one having the problem. So, it's a bit of a stretch to call this app a "course", it doesn't help or guide you much at all, but the materials it gives you are good. Just be prepared to resist throwing your phone into the wall. Because since the app does little to help when it's not going well, and you can't go back to brush up on anything before to try and get a better grasp on parts that are giving you trouble without deleting progress from entire sections, you're likely to find yourself more frustrated than you thought was possible. It's not a terrible app, but the details and presentation leave a lot to be desired. Was going to check out their other apps but after this one, I think I'll look elsewhere.

Sometimes had to google stuff to understand exactly what they were talking about, but the quizzes and advice really helped me make huge improvements in my ability to identify chords and intervals. Yay!

I would give this app five stars if the sound didn't shut off every time I go to another app and come back to it, or when my phone goes to sleep and I wake it back up. Sometimes the sound comes back after several hours, or after I restart my iPhone. It's really infuriating. Can the developers advise, please?