OpenEar

Shachar Har-Shuv

About this app

OpenEar is an open source ear training app for musicians. It's goal is to provide a flexible variety of exercises so musicians will be able to master recognizing any musical pattern that might help them become better musicians.
Currently includes the following built in exercises:

1. Identify interval
2. Identify note in a tonal context
3. Identify chord & chord progressions in a tonal context
4. Identify a triad chord inversion in close position

Check out our GitHub page for contribution and feedback: https://github.com/ShacharHarshuv/open-ear

Ratings and reviews

It's having problem on Scale degree and chord function. The black note "playing cadence to establish key" is frozen on screen and it's unclear how to do that exercise. It worked after restarting app, it was frozen again but then it worked fine. Perhaps it's due to heavy load on Ram 4GB, I closed my other apps. Happening always in all sections. Just plays the chord after sometime, the black dialog box is frozen.

It was a great experience doing a couple exercises from each category. Clean app design. I found that the home activity does not exit on backpress. If the behaviour was intended perhaps you might exit on double back press? The basic explanation for each test (noted in GitHub) would be useful. I could not figure out what a couple of tests where until I clicked a few buttons to figure out what it was about. Probably because I was not taught with those wordings

Simple but covers pretty much everything you need. Intuitive and very customizable, this app helped me improve my ear training by a lot. So much better than a random youtube video that you have to re-watch and pause every 10 seconds. Overall a great app and exactly what I was looking for.

What's new

Support chord inversions (Slash chords)