Politonus I (Ear Training)

This app is a pretty useful way to drill your intervals and get some great ear training. suggestions: 1)let me view a log of my success rate per interval. That will help me learn what I have to work on. 2) let me choose which intervals will be tested. Right now you give only 2 options: all 8 or all 12. It would be nice if I could pick. Ex I only want to work on b3, #4, and b7 today because they are a trouble spot. Otherwise this is pretty cool.

Besides a bunch of bugs that crash the app or ignore some settings the effect of this training is minimal if at all. It is easier to remember the timber and character of each played note and get it right than guess the pitch after resetting cadence. After 10 hours of this nonsense I am down to 20% precision and have zero confidence in identifying and naming the notes. Finger remembers position of the buttons on the screen, that does not make the eye correlate note name with what ear can hear. Something is very wrong either with me or this learning concept.

2 and 3 are hot garbage. MDecks will take your money and you’ll never hear from them again.

The bug where the new cadence is played when a replay button is pressed prevents from using this app.

Bought this app with high hopes that it would help me develop my ear training skills. Sadly I find it does a very bad job of helping you learn. It claims to have AI that adapts to your learning style, but I see no evidence of that. It feels like a simplistic drill-based approach that offers no support to improve. If you already are good at ear training it might offer useful practice to brush up. Otherwise I suggest you look elsewhere.

Really great app- from 1 note to up to 11 note ear training with chromatic or diatonic intervals. The lay out is simple and easy to understand. You can design it to perfectly suit your level. I love that Solfeggio is an option for naming the notes as well.

But the developers have put in a really half-hearted effort.

This app gave me flashbacks to when I took music theory as an elective because I wanted to learn music theory but instead just got a bitter oboeist screaming “WRONG” at me every time I misidentified the note/chord she played.

I love this program because it is similar to the ear training I did with the great jazz guru Charlie Bananas. Also, the developer Ariel is an ultra-cool nice person who actually responds to questions and requests. These apps are an essential part of any musician’s tool bag. John Schulman - Berklee College of Music - Class of 2009 / & long-time student of Charlie Banacos

App is interesting but has issues. Developers do not respond to email or support requests