ABRSM Aural Trainer 6-8 Lite

There are some downsides to this app, but overall I feel like this is the best app/material to use to practice aural alone. The extracts may be a bit repetitive, but they give you the answers you could/need to get the marks in the actual exam. After using this app I got 18/18 in aural for my Grade 8 practical exam; 141 in total! You should try and see if it matches with the lite version, but really the extra purchase is worth it! Good luck to fellow musicians :) P.s. this itself isn’t enough to train aural skills, perhaps consider this app as a place to learn the foundation, or, to prepare for the actual exam (not to develop your skills). You should also “speak” when doing the musical features part, instead of tapping the answers (up to G7)

I have this app for a while now and it’s been great, but suddenly now it is telling me I need to upgrade even though I can still access grade 6 to 8 and have paid fully for the app?! And it has started glitching out, on the rhythmic repetition it asked me about texture and then supplied answers about tempo, and then at the end when marked, glitched out again, back to texture saying I got it wrong, even though it hadn’t supplied me those answers! Pls fix.

When doing sight singing, the correct answer compared to the response plays together. Also when checking in all features, the count in is echoed

The lite version was helpful, if a little limited in exercises, so I decided to buy the full version, and the transaction went through but I have been unable to receive the full version, just a warning to those trying to buy it, I think you need to buy the full version through the App Store.

I payed for the full version a couple of months ago. I’ve been accessing grade 8. I accessed grade 8 a couple of days ago. This evening i can’t access it. Its stating that I have the lite version and I need to pay. I’ve already payed!

Can’t access Grade 8 after upgrading.

Even if your iPhone is already connected to an airplay or bluetooth speaker, the app still plays the music through the speaker of the idevice. Wired earphones works fine. I have brought this to the attention of the developer last year. The respondent said many things. The respondent did not say that they are working on a fix for bluetooth or airplay speaker users. That is so archaic because most apps that plays audio files allow the user to choose the output speaker. So if your iPhone speaker will prepare you for the sound of the grand piano that you will be standing behind on the day of your exam, buy this app!

Quite disappointing

The app is great for what it is but has some formatting issues, my main query is that I can’t find what piece is being played during the “musical features” part of the grade 7 programme. It’s a wonderful baroque piece that I would love to learn and the name or sheet music isn’t anywhere, help!

This app is great (I have my Grade 7 Violin exam in a few days time so I paid and upgraded it) but there are a few issues; • The 'back' tab needs changing - when I'm looking at my feedback I keep accidentally exiting the whole section because the 'go back' buttons are totally wrong compared to every other app. • The sight singing tab needs to avoid giving you the same music in a row. Maybe if you haven't been on the app for a while it would be ok to recycle sight singing scores but not 3 seconds later!