Functional Ear Trainer

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About this app

Ear training can be easy and fun! With a right approach.

Have you (or one of your friends) ever wanted to learn to transcribe or play music by ear?

It is so important for a musician to know what you are hearing. A good musical ear helps when you are composing, improvising, transcribing melodies, or playing with others.

Most likely you have already tried different programs to learn to recognize intervals or even to acquire perfect pitch. However, although such programs develop your ear, but can you actually play any melody you hear as soon as you listen to it?

Imagine you could understand music… It is like when somebody is talking to you, you not only hear pleasant sounds, but you recognize words and their meaning.

One day I came across Alain Benbassat's program called “Functional Ear Trainer” and have been using it ever since. It is based on Alain's ear training method to learn to recognize tones.

The main difference between the Functional Ear Trainer and other methods is that it teaches you to distinguish between tones in the context of a particular musical key. You begin to recognize the role (or function) of each tone in this key, which is incredibly similar to its role in other keys of the same scale.

And it is *guaranteed* anyone can gradually develop this skill. It does not matter:
– who you are – an absolute beginner in music or a virtuoso professional musician;
– how old you are – a 3 yo kid or a 90+ adult;
– what musical instrument you play (you don't even have to play one).

The only requirement is to practice for 10 minutes a day.

I was so excited about this ear trainer that I have developed an Android app based on the Alain Benbassat method. I hope you will find it useful.

Download this app right now, and have fun with your ear training!

Ratings and reviews

I am a senior (not yet 90+) interested in preserving/sustaining my hearing and appreciation of classical music as long as possible. I hope practicing for 10 min./ day will allow me to enjoy recordings and live performance for years with no hearing aids. I dislike electronically generated sound. It lacks richness, is tinny . . . However, I am thankful for this app.

This is the only "ear training" app I've ever used where it feels like I can actually improve. I think it's because it stays in the same octave so I can get acquainted with the quality of the degrees but also it always plays the scale notes to the root, which becomes a jingle in my head that is associated to that scale degree. Then I tried a multi-octave challenge and yep I can hear the scale jingle in any octave. Of course I'm not good at it yet but finally I think I can make progress!

I've only been ear training on this app for about half an hour and I really like it. It's so practical. A series of chords are generated, followed by a tone, then a choice between two tones are offered. Without thought, the chords train your brain to hear the difference between the tones. It couldn't be simpler, yet I am hearing and learning the tones. I'm going to use this app for ten minutes every night before bed to commit it to long term memory ❤️ !

What's new

*** If you like Functional Ear Trainer, please take the time to give it a nice review: it really helps.
– Android 15 Edge-to-Edge.
– Plus users can now create a payments account by entering their email address and password. This will allow you to seamlessly access paid features on your other devices.
– Sound plugins can now be downloaded directly within the app.
– Bug fixes and stability improvements.