Better Ears - Ear Training
Educational music and ear training app.
»Better Ears« (formerly known as Karajan® - Music and Ear Trainer), is an educational music and ear training app, which helps you grow your musical skills and enhance your hearing capabilities. There are ten different exercises included, starting from interval recognition all the way to chord progressions - perfect for beginners and music-masters alike!You decide how to train!With »Better Ears« you can decide for yourself what your training routine should look like. There are no rules you have to follow, you decide when to start and how often to practice.10 different exercises included»Better Ears« includes 10 different exercises:• Interval recognition• Scale recognition• Chord recognition• Chord progressions• Pitch recognition• Melodic dictation• Tempo recognition• Key Signature recognition• Interval music reading• Scale music reading• Chord music reading• Melody music readingCustom scales, chords and chord progressionsThe new editor for Chords, Scales and Chord Progressions allows you to add your own items.5 different instrumentsChoose your training sound from five different instruments. Better Ears comes with Acoustic Grand piano, Bright Acoustic Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Nylon Acoustic Guitar and Steel Acoustic Guitar.Keyboard and Fretboard»Better Ears« comes with a virtual keyboard and virtual guitar fretboard. You can key notes on either.Four preset levels»Better Ears« ships with four preset levels:• Beginner• Easy• Normal• ProfessionalUnlimited custom levelsAdditionally you can can create your own levels, letting you train to your own specific needs. Put yourself in "Training Camp" to learn church modes, or concentrate on those two pesky intervals that constantly cause you problems.Sync all of your devicesWith »Better Ears« you can keep your Mac and your iOS devices in sync. You can choose what to sync: Your own levels, your statistics, your settings or all of this.MIDI Support»Better Ears« supports routing sound through an external MIDI device, allowing you to use your existing MIDI master keyboard or sound module. You can even control »Better Ears« using a connected keyboard.StatisticsFor every exercise »Better Ears« knows all your current stats, including how often you have answered each question correctly or incorrectly.Wikipedia integration»Better Ears« shows the relevant Wikipedia article for the current exercise. If a relevant article is not available online, another topically-appropriate article will be shown instead.
»Better Ears« (formerly known as Karajan® - Music and Ear Trainer), is an educational music and ear training app, which helps you grow your musical skills and enhance your hearing capabilities. There are ten different exercises included, starting from interval recognition all the way to chord progressions - perfect for beginners and music-masters alike!You decide how to train!With »Better Ears« you can decide for yourself what your training routine should look like. There are no rules you have to follow, you decide when to start and how often to practice.10 different exercises included»Better Ears« includes 10 different exercises:• Interval recognition• Scale recognition• Chord recognition• Chord progressions• Pitch recognition• Melodic dictation• Tempo recognition• Key Signature recognition• Interval music reading• Scale music reading• Chord music reading• Melody music readingCustom scales, chords and chord progressionsThe new editor for Chords, Scales and Chord Progressions allows you to add your own items.5 different instrumentsChoose your training sound from five different instruments. Better Ears comes with Acoustic Grand piano, Bright Acoustic Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Nylon Acoustic Guitar and Steel Acoustic Guitar.Keyboard and Fretboard»Better Ears« comes with a virtual keyboard and virtual guitar fretboard. You can key notes on either.Four preset levels»Better Ears« ships with four preset levels:• Beginner• Easy• Normal• ProfessionalUnlimited custom levelsAdditionally you can can create your own levels, letting you train to your own specific needs. Put yourself in "Training Camp" to learn church modes, or concentrate on those two pesky intervals that constantly cause you problems.Sync all of your devicesWith »Better Ears« you can keep your Mac and your iOS devices in sync. You can choose what to sync: Your own levels, your statistics, your settings or all of this.MIDI Support»Better Ears« supports routing sound through an external MIDI device, allowing you to use your existing MIDI master keyboard or sound module. You can even control »Better Ears« using a connected keyboard.StatisticsFor every exercise »Better Ears« knows all your current stats, including how often you have answered each question correctly or incorrectly.Wikipedia integration»Better Ears« shows the relevant Wikipedia article for the current exercise. If a relevant article is not available online, another topically-appropriate article will be shown instead.
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Unfortunately there are multiple problems. Exercise settings are dark on dark, so I cant read anything. In melodic reading, notes are shifted on the staff which makes it useless. In chord learning mode it changes the key all the time so I cant compare for example Amaj7 to A7.
Few answers will say wrong, but say the right answer is what you chose. For exemple, you chose minor, and they say wrong, the right answer is minor. Annoying for that, but at least you get the right answer still. Just doesn't count them as rifht answer.
The app is good but every time I try to add a custom scale "blues" I get too the 6th note in the scale and it doesn't let me go any further or move that 6th note up or down.. Super frustrating as that's the scale I need the most help with!! I have a HTC u11
Update: It is now February, 5 months after I made my email request to the developers to update the app. They have indeed delivered, so I am bumping my review up from 1 to 3 stars. I think they initially promised me about a month, so this delay is annoying. I am past learning the material that I had needed help with earlier. But this app is useful and good. Hence the 3 stars. And I did eventually receive a helpful response -- so the developers are listening, just it takes time. I hope they continue to synchronize updates for iOS and Google Play Store. Old Review: I bought this app for a college course, Theory of Music I. I need the 'Music Recognition' feature to be available on android. It is currently not. All my classmates who have iPhones are perfectly content with their purchase, but me and my fellow android classmates feel very cheated right now. Google Play has an awful refund policy; I cannot get a refund at all. I have been in touch with the developers and am not receiving prompt support. They just need to add the easy pitch recognition feature and update the android version to reflect the updates on iOS. This was a huge waste of money, and time in trying to address it. I will update this review if the necessary feature is added.
This app DOES NOT WORK with a Google pixel. It seemed great on my friend's iPhone, but on Android it crashes every time within 15-30 seconds.
Does what it should, and works well. It is expensive, and maybe there is a more cost efficient app you can find, but for any musician who wants to improve, this is easily worth $10.