EarMaster offers advanced ear training and covers all significant areas in intervals, scales, chords, rhythms and melodies. Each exercise will improve different areas of your musical ear! Using EarMaster will refine all important areas of your musical ear. You will develop greater musicality, better musical confidence and experience real enjoyment of music!
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Intervals
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Once you get the hang of intervals, it will be easier to transcribe songs, compose songs or tuning your guitar. If you are a singer it will improve your ability to sing in tune and to phrase flawlessly. Whatever instrument you play, EarMaster will help you figure out the melody of a song based on the intervals: “Oh, that’s just a perfect fourth followed by a minor third.” EarMaster features two exercises that will help you do just that: |
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Interval singing 
You can also use this exercise to learn to spell intervals. If you answer the question by using one of EarMaster’s other answering methods, then this exercise becomes an “Interval spelling” exercise.
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EarMaster plays a harmonic or melodic interval; you identify it by its name or transcribe the tones on the piano, guitar or notesheet.
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EarMaster will play two intervals; you answer which one is larger. This exercise does not require any knowledge about music theory. It is therefore an excellent starting point for beginners.
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Scales and modes |
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With EarMaster you learn to identify scales (major, minor, blues, bebop, etc.) and church modes (Dorian, Phrygian, etc.):
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EarMaster will play a scale or mode; you then identify it by name or insert the tones on the piano, guitar or staff. Scales are an essential tool when you want to improvise or when writing melody lines.
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Chords |
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Recognizing chords and harmonies is an essential aspect of being able to interact while playing with other musicians. It is also an important aspect of being able to transcribe songs and to compose music. Being able to improvise and to play music by ear also requires knowledge in the functions and structures of chords. Combining harmonies and chords in music requires that you can hear and feel the quality of chords, and that you are familiar with their function within a given key. EarMaster features three exercises that will help you improve these skills:
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EarMaster plays a harmonic or melodic chord; you identify it by its name or transcribe the tones on the piano, guitar or the note sheet.
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Chord-inversion identification |
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Chord progression identification |
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Rhythms |
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Modern music increasingly requires a musician to possess good rhythmic understanding. A good sense of rhythmic variations, the ability to feel a tempo, being able to grasp rhythmic figures, and the ability to keep a tempo are important for any musician. It is not enough to be able to read or hear individual note values; you must also identify a rhythm as a series of rhythmic patterns. EarMaster features four exercises that teach you to read and identify rhythms:
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Rhythm dictation |
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Here EarMaster will play a rhythm score. You will then clap the rhythm following the metronome. Clap your hands in front of the microphone, tap the rhythm on the space bar, or play it on your MIDI instrument. This exercise is helpful in many ways; it of course improves your sight reading skills. You also develop your familiarity with rhythmical patterns and, very importantly, you will improve your time sense!
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EarMaster will play a rhythm and you have to clap the rhythm to the beat of the metronome. Clap your hands in front of your microphone, tap the rhythm on the space bar or play it on your MIDI instrument. This exercise will further develop what the two previous rhythm-exercises dealt with – only this exercise really emphasizes the musical approach, in that it is you who play – with no visual guidance.
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In this exercise EarMaster will play a rhythm score and then play the same rhythm -but with a few changes. Your task is to identify these changes. Your ability to grasp rhythmical variations and other type of progressions in musical patterns and figures is the focus here.
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Melodies |
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Finally, the question of the eternally desirable perfect pitch. Can you transcribe a tune when you hear it? Can you start of singing your starting line without a cue from your pianist or guitar player? Or can you identify the very important note in the chorus that everybody else in the band is playing?
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EarMaster will here play a melodic phrase. You can then transcribe it on the staff, on guitar tablature, or on the piano. Step by step, you come closer to perfect pitch. And closer to the optimal utilization of your musicality!
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| The EarMaster Tutors |
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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 |
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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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| Kansas State University |
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"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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