 Dear Mr Hans Jakobsen,
I am a music lover - not a musician - and a medical man, playing for my own pleasure piano which I started in my fifth decade.
I have to C O N G R A T U L A T E you and you team for a sterling work on the ear training.
Since I have downloaded your trial program from the Internet it kept me absorbed already several nights close to the dawn. It is Brilliant!!! I have great a difficulty to detach myself from my laptop. It is un-put-downable!
What a great use of the IT in music.
My copy of the program will be on the way to me tomorrow.
My great respect to you and everybody contributing to this venture.
Thank you very much indeed!
P.S.: My only regret is that I have found you program so late. It is worth all money and then some.
Tomasz J. Kurek, Amateur musician - Piano, Johannesburg, South Africa
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| I've been
playing music for 35+ years and pitch recognition was something I struggled
with. After using EarMaster for less than a month, I made more progress in this
period of time than the preceding 35+ years.
Jim Cox, Amateur musician, Houston, Texas
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| Hans, this
software is the best. It really is helping me to learn piano by ear! I don't
know how you figured out all the right exercises to use. But each one you placed
there is exactly what is needed! Hans if you ever had wondered if you got it
just right! Trust me, from all the research I've been doing to figure out how to
learn, your software is it! You absolutely got it perfect! Great job!!!
Jim Carrillo, Advanced piano student, Tampa Bay, Florida
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I teach guitar
for a living and I have to say that your program really hits the nail on the
head and allows the user to concentrate on what he wants to personally develop.
I've tried a few ear training programs in the past and really been disappointed.
Your stuff really lets me work on what I want to work on and the whole interface
is very well put together.
I really salute you guys for creating something
that truly benefits musicians and I am sure that it is worth every penny. I have
already started to recommend your software to all of my students.
Justin Proudman, Guitar teacher, UK
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| Your program
is awesome and I am making great progress. I have been playing classical guitar
for almost 20 years now and I have tried other perfect pitch programs and failed
at them. Their concept was always from the playing a cd and listening to it.
Your program is like having a teacher in front of me. When I make a mistake, it
fires it back at me and pushes me to learn. Thanks again for your wonderful
program, I have been looking for something like this for years. I will recommend
this to all of my students and fellow musicians.
Mark Millage, Classical guitar, Music teacher, Florida, USA
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| Your software
has helped my hearing progress astronomically faster than the traditional 'find
your partner' approach. I am very hard on myself I push myself as an athlete in
training might, and your software keeps up with my pace quite well. I have grown
in leaps and bounds thanks to the tool you have graciously provided. I say
graciously, because the fee is nominal in comparison to the returns.
Shahzad Ismaily, Professional musician, Bass and electronics,
Brooklyn, New York
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| I have been
blown away by your EarMaster. I am at the University of Newcastle Conservatorium
of Music, Australia and have found that using this software has improved my
Aural capabilities enormously. Each point covered by EarMaster is exactly the
areas in which we are working. I find EarMaster really easy to use. Thank you
for turning what can be a very tedious subject into one that is extremely
enjoyable.
Jan Boyle, University of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music,
Australia
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| My students
thoroughly enjoy your program. In fact, I am going to get rid of my ....... and
other ear training programs because my students would rather use your software.
Genny Rafferty, Piano teacher, Phoenix, Arizona
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| I recommend
EarMaster without hesitation to any student or professional who wants to shift
their aural skills into overdrive. (...) Even students with perfect pitch will
be very hard pressed to max out the unlimited potential with your wonderful
program, and I know few people who could master the melodic dictation up to 9
random chromatic notes. Thank you for writing such a great program.
Douglas Martin, Music student, University of Michigan, USA
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| I'm am
currently in my third year at Queensland Conservatorium in Jazz Studies and just
before aural/listening exams my computer and your fantastic program certainly
takes a pounding. It has been an essential tool in the development of my musical
ear. Thanks again.
Ross Williams, Music student, Queensland Conservatorium,
Australia
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| This is so
good I cannot stop recommending it! All those boring music lessons now become
fun, and you can see and hear yourself getting better! If school was like this
we would all be Einsteins.
Mark Kober-Smith, Notary Public, and amateur musician, London
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| I am a jazz
saxophonist, and I have now been using the program for several months. Over time
I have come to regard it as my second instrument. Working at it every day I am
becoming able to recognise any interval in an instant, hear chord changes in and
sight read tricky syncopated jazz rhythms. What more could a Jazzer want?!!!
Steve Deckett, Jazz saxophonist, UK
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| I'm talking
about this program to all the musicians in this city. Everybody says, this is a
wonderful program easy to use, easy to understand. I think that this program is
the teacher that every musician must have at home.
Juan Daniel Muñoz, Drummer and band leader, Mexico
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| Hans, your
program is one of the best I've ever used. Not only is it logical, intuitive,
deeply interactive, (...). It is smart - very, very smart, and very easy to use.
What I love most is what I can do on the Scale Identification page. Whether I
click a piano key, a guitar string, or ledger line or space, the note and tone
always play perfectly and simultaneously display everywhere. Talk about great
reinforcement!! And then when I discovered that I could hold in my mouse button
and drag the cursor across multiple notes only to have them all play/display,
well, that sold me right there - at that point I knew I just had to buy this
software. What a smart, smart program.
Raymond Smith, Keyboards & Electric Bass Guitar, Irving,
Texas, USA
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| I have tried
about a dozen ear training software packages, but EarMaster seems to be the
best, and by a wide margin. In fact, of all the applications I have tried, it's
the only one I can really recommend to my fellow musicians.
Joseph Dabkoski, California, USA
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Dear Hans: I
think EarMaster is terrific. I have ordered it and just received the software
and am anxious to install it. I have also referred the program to several of my
friends, as well as my teacher. I am an adult piano student, having taken
lessons for 6 years, starting at 44 years of age. I have found that I am a
visual learner and that it is difficult for me to learn piano the traditional
way because I have a difficult time not being able to see my hands as I read the
music. I am not making the visual connection between my hands and the music,
easily. But, that was before EarMaster.
Beyond learning how to learn by ear,
EarMaster has helped me to visually associate the sound of a key to the piano
key itself because both are right before me on the computer screen. Now, when I
play the piano acoustically, I am finding it to be much easier because I can now
'see' where my hands are while still reading the music.
Linda Carey Kunnath, Piano player, USA
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| I am impressed
with this product. In the process of searching for this type of software I had
occasion to try several other programs. None of them came close to providing the
depth of exercises and the ease of use that EarMaster does.
Mike Nekechuk, Amateur musician, Ottawa, Canada
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| EarMaster has
been the best ear training software that I have tried. It looks very nice and it
has everything I need to practice! It is GREAT!
Miguel-Gerardo Brito, Music student, Puebla, Mexico
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| One of the
best programs of its kind. For the price you ask, unbeatable...
Axel Gallrein, Hobby musician, Berlin, Germany
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| This is far
and away the best ear training program I've come across, and it's much less
expensive than many others.
Michael Rosenberg, Professional musician, California
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| I really
enjoyed using the EarMaster evaluation copy. As a software developer I can
appreciate that you've done a great job both in design and implementation.
Alan Macy, Responsive Software, Trinidad, California
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| What a great
tool!
Doug Mitchell, Music student, Seattle, USA
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| I think
EarMaster is one of the best ear trainers I have seen. It is quite powerful, its
appearance is visually pleasing, it is uncluttered and it is simple to use. I
like the large keyboard and the three different ways test questions can be
answered. I also like the clearly set out way in which users can create their
own chords and scales.
Doug Truter, Australia
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| I have only
been using EarMaster for one week, and I'm able to now play songs by ear.
Unbelievable.Thank you. I highly recommend EarMaster.
Sheila Evans, keyboard, Chicago, USA
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| Many people
might say that a computer cannot replace human beings, but EarMaster certainly
comes close in many ways. Given the nature of our discipline and the large
amount of practice required, EarMaster is a patient and non-judgmental teacher.
Dr. David Ehrke, Professor of Music, University of Nevada,
Reno
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| Yes, we wrote
the quotes ourselves! (just kidding) - How did we get them? They are just a few
of the comments we have received by email. All authors are quoted with
permission.
Webmaster, EarMaster.com
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EarMaster will surely be a key to success for many professional and aspiring
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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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