EarMaster is the perfect tool to train your ear and become a better musician. It covers all the significant areas of ear training: intervals, scales, chords, rhythms and melodies! It's like having an ear training workshop at home, open 24/7! And unlike books or audio methods, EarMaster is giving you interactive feedback and makes sure you are on the right tracks!
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Intervals
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Any melody or chord is composed of intervals, either one after another (melodic intervals) or played together (harmonic intervals). Mastering interval recognition is therefore the cornerstone of ear training, because it will give you access to new levels of musicianship, especially for transcribing, composing, or even tuning your instrument! EarMaster provides you with 3 activities to train your ability to identify, compare and sing intervals: |
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EarMaster plays a tone and asks you to sing or play an interval above or below.
Example: “Sing the Perfect 5th above D.”
You can also use that exercise with Fixed- or Movable-Do solfege to sing solfege syllables!
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EarMaster plays an interval and asks you to identify it by its name, or to transcribe the tones on your favourite on-screen interface (staff, piano, guitar, bass, violin, and more).
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EarMaster plays two intervals (A and B) and asks you to point out which one was the larger. As this exercise does not require any knowledge of music theory, it is an excellent starting point for beginners.
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Scales & Modes |
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Scales and modes are the best assets you can use if you want to improvise and jam with other musicians, or create melodic lines on a given tune. With EarMaster, you will learn to easily identify scales (major, minor, blues, bebop, etc.) and modes (Dorian, Phrygian, etc.).
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EarMaster plays a scale or a mode and asks you to identify it by its name or to insert its tones on the visual interface of your choice (staff, piano, guitar, etc.). If you have a MIDI keyboard, you can also answer by simply playing the scales and modes that you hear!
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Chords |
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Being able to play music by ear requires among other things some knowledge in the functions and structures of chords, and a natural feel for their quality. EarMaster features three exercises that will help you improve these skills:
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EarMaster plays a chord and asks you to identify it by its name or to transcribe it on one of the visual interface (piano, guitar or staff). You can also answer by playing the chords on a MIDI keyboard!
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Chord Inversion Identification |
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Chord Progression Identification |
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Rhythms |
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Today's music increasingly requires outstanding rhythmic skills. Being able to feel and follow a tempo, to grasp rhythmic patterns, and to play or sing in rhythm are fundamental aspects of being a good musician. With its set of 4 interactive rhythm exercices, EarMaster offers a real rhythmic workshop that will maximize your groove!
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EarMaster plays a rhythm and asks you to transcribe it on the staff. Training with this exercise will give you more proficiency at trabscribing note values, and make it easier to write down music or use notation software.
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EarMaster shows you a rhythm notated on the staff interface, and asks you to clap it while following the metronome. Clap your hands in front of a microphone, tap the rhythm on your computer's space bar, or play it on your MIDI instrument. This exercise not only improves your sight-reading skills, but it also makes you work on your timing!
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EarMaster plays a rhythm and asks you to clap it back following the beat of the metronome. You can clap your hands in front of a microphone, tap the rhythm on your computer's space bar or play it on your MIDI instrument. This exercise doesn't require any knowledge in music theory. All you need to do is to listen, memorize, and perform with as much dexterity and precision as possible!
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EarMaster shows you a rhythm notated on the staff, and then plays it with a few changes. Your task is to identify these changes by highlighting the note values that are different from those you heard. Through this detective-like exercise, you will improve your ability to identify rhythmic variations.
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Melodies |
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Can you transcribe or play a song after hearing it? Can you identify the very important notes in the chorus that everybody else in the band is playing? Training with EarMaster's melodic dictation exercise will set you on the right tracks to do just that!
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EarMaster plays a melodic phrase and asks you to transcribe it on one of the visual interfaces (staff, guitar, piano, and more).
This exercise is quite challenging and involves your skills at identifying and transcribing (either on the staff or on your instrument) intervals, scales and rhythms. But it is really worth it, as practising with the melodic dictation will help you pick up songs by ear more easily!
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| The EarMaster Tutors |
EarMaster includes two advanced Tutors that will challenge and develop trained and untrained ears.
The Standard Tutor has 440 lessons in all exercise areas. The Jazz tutor has 211 lessons specific to jazz.
The two tutors will guide you through the lessons and increase the difficulty as your ear improves.
You can take a lesson again and again, because it will never be exactly the same.
Note: EarMaster School includes a Tutor Editor that allows music teachers to make their own tutors.
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| 128 instruments and sounds |
EarMaster uses the General MIDI in your sound card to play all sounds. It gives you 128 different instruments and sounds to choose from.
The 128 instruments and sounds are grouped in 16 “families”:
Piano, Guitar, Bass, Brass, Pipe, Organ, Reed, Solo Strings, Ethnic, Chromatic Percussion and more.
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 Top rated!
"We would happily recommend the software"
SchoolZone UK The School Support Site schoolzone.co.uk
 Download of the week "The Net" #3 Editor’s Pick I was impressed with this program.  Chris Galli, Music Software reviewer, Download.com
 Guide's Pick!"Practice Tools for the Guitar" "Performing Arts Resources" EarMaster will surely be a key to success for many professional and aspiring musicians. Rocketdownload.com
| Kansas State University |
"EarMaster does everything we were looking for -- and more. It runs flawlessly on the University network (...) All of our theory teachers designed a tutor for their classes. Without exception they found that the tutor editor was complete and that it was easy to use (...)
EarMaster is a very comprehensive program. There are many levels to choose from in each area, very simple to quite complex. This makes it a program that can be successfully used at the high school level and it should be of interest to the private studio teacher as well."
Hanley Jackson, Professor of Music, Kansas State University
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