Functional Ear Trainer - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Have you (or maybe 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 Alain Benbassat's program called "Functional Ear Trainer" and have been using it ever since. It is based on 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 a mobile app based on the Alain Benbassat method. I hope you will find it useful.

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Great App!

This is revolutionizing my understanding of music intervals.

Awesome

If you are consistent, then it will work!!!

Une merveille !

Absolument excellent ! Prenez le temps de découvrir les possibilités, ça va très loin et c'est très efficace. Imbattable pour le prix 🌞

Great App

App works great, and I find it helpful for training the ear. I use my time better now by practicing with it in free time instead of playing solitaire.

Lots of fun

I am enjoying this, I like the sense of competition against myself!

Good stuff - too early to tell results

I think it would be nice to have a drone button to play the I chord or tonic continuously and hear the notes in context. Also (this may happen in later exercises) changing which cadence gets played.

Incredible App!

I’ve been struggling to do ear training and felt like I haven’t made much progress in 6 months with other methods. And while I’m sure that period was helpful, nothing clicked until I started using this app and in just a couple weeks I’m actually starting to identify scale degrees (and intervals, chords, etc. followed from that) with ease. Establishing the cadence really helps seeing everything in relation to the tonic.

Super helpful. Easy to use. FREE.

really well thought out and well built app for a free app.

Awesome free ear training tool

Absolutely love the way that the exercises scale up in difficulty: as a beginner, it’s great to build your understanding and instinct with manageable exercises, and then there’s many many more ways you can configure your training to help you meet your goals! Within a couple days I’ve already noticed improvements in my ability to identify chord progressions more accurately. Very excited to continue growing.

Wow amazing app

I have been at it for almost 8 months, it’s unbelievable how even the way I play my instrument changed. I am almost at that point where I can hear almost anything. In another 6 months I will be where I need to be. Amazing app!! I recommend to anyone who wants to perfect their ears. I have been doing it twice a day 15 mins per session.

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Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	Peru Music	215
Top Free	Ireland Music	359
Top Free	Norway Music	371
Top Free	Australia Music	391
Top Free	Czechia Music	479

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