Professional musicians know, that having a good trained ear is one of the most important skills, a musician should have. goodEar was made to increase those skills and bring you on a new musical level!
It is made for all musicians, whether you are beginner or professional.
Functions:
• Choose from four different modes: intervals, chords, scales, melodies
Intervals:
• Choose from all intervals between 2 octaves
• Activate "backing chord" to hear the interval in harmonic context
• Play them ascending, descending, or simultaneously
Chords:
• All possible triads and inversions
• All possible 4-note-chords (e.g. Cm7)
• 20 different extended/altered chords (e.g. D7b9b13 or Emaj7#11)
Scales:
• 38 different scales
• All ionian scales (e.g. ionian, dorian...)
• All harmonic-minor scales (e.g. Ionian #5)
• All melodic-minor scales (e.g. Mixo #11)
• 5 Pentatonic Scales (e.g. minor pentatonic)
• 5 Hexatonic Scales (e.g. whole tone scale)
• 7 Octatonic Scales (e.g. Bebop Dominant)
• play them ascending or descending
Melodies:
• Identify random generated melodies
• You can make them diatonic, or non diatonic
• Choose the intervals, that you want to be included in the melody
• Activate "backing chord" to hear the melody in harmonic context
• Create your own exercises, depending on your personal approach. (No annoying wizards)!
• Play the exercises on piano or give the answer with multiple-choice
• Watch your progress in statistics
• Make highscores, and try to challenge yourself
goodEar was made with the knowledge of various professional musicians and teachers, for giving you high quality music education on the iPad.
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Very helpful—small bug
I’m finding this to be immediately helpful with my improvising (hearing what’s in my head and translating it to the piano).
A small bug: in the multiple intervals section after an error, when you play the next pattern successfully it does not move on to the next pattern—you need to hit the “new melody” button.
A request: I’m getting close to mastering the modules. Could you add 7ths or something to add difficulty? (Now I’m gonna check and see if it’s already there and I missed it!)
Can’t change temp on iPhone
I purchased this app specifically for the jazz chord ear training portion, it works on my iPad, but not on my iPhone. I can’t change how fast the notes are being played during the arpeggios and I can’t identify the chords cause they are playing so fast.
good app
good stuff! anyway to get a guitar fret board to input notes also?
Good but flawed.
Hi! I’m a beginner at ear training and I’m starting to get the hang of thus powerful program. But one crucial thing is missing. After you correctly guess the answer, you cannot hear the chord, interval or melody again before the app jumps instantly to play the next example. It’s crucial to hear the example WHILE knowing the correct answer. To cement your knowledge. Please fix this issue, thanks!
A Bit Glitchy
Inconsistent performance with headphones on iPad Pro. When practicing scales, notes will bounce between left and right ears, which is a distraction during exercises. Rebooting iPad or deleting and reloading app resolves problem for a few days.
Easy-to Use Aural app
Easy-to-use app for sharpening aural skills.
No explanation on how to use.
There is no demo or a page with instructions on how to use. The information button only explains what each control does not how they work or how to use the app. App looks good and has plenty of options but as a beginner in ear training how exactly am I suppose to use this.
Fun and educational
Great for all musicians for ear training. I highly recommend it.
Invaluable tool
Great tool for anyone trying to improve their ear.
Great app for learning to hear chords and intervals
Highly recommended. I started using this in button mode and gradually shifted to keyboard mode as my ears improved. I love being able to specify what intervals or chords I’m working on.
Some minor items for my wish list:
1. Improve statistics by showing me percentages for specific chords /intervals so I get a sense of where I’m doing well and where I’m doing poorly.
2. Add a progressive difficulty option that tracks where I’m struggling and shifts the focus to those chords/intervals.
3z. Add an option to play the chord after playing the arpeggio.
