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 have had quite a bit of success learning with this app. I like to use two or three different apps in rotation to keep things fresh, but this has become the core of what I use, probably 80% of my ear training time is spent here. It took a couple of weeks a little time every day and what seemed like no progress, and then all the sudden I could hear notes. It's a little bit magical.

love this app! easy and intuitive to use. The "basic training" games quickly tune your ear and help you find gaps in your skill. The "custom levels" then let you hone in on those gaps, greatly speeding your improvement. For the past three weeks I've used this 5 days a week for about 20 minutes, while on my lunch break. I am surprised at the clarity I've gained already and I'm now able to hear and sing harmonies with confidence. I would buy this again.

I really like this app. A lot of music ear training out there doesn't feel every beginner friendly to me. This app is very helpful in this case. The beginning lessons start with only a handful of notes to test you on, so you can start to learn the scale degrees without getting overwhelmed with octaves and key changes. It does take time, but the training isn't overwhelmingly difficult.

What’s new

*** If you like Functional Ear Trainer, please take the time to give it a nice review: it really helps.
– Bug fixes and stability improvements.