Better Ears - Ear Training

MAMP GmbH

About this app

»Better Ears« (formerly known as Karajan® - Music and Ear Trainer), is an educational music and ear training app, which helps you grow your musical skills and enhance your hearing capabilities. There are ten different exercises included, starting from interval recognition all the way to chord progressions - perfect for beginners and music-masters alike!


You decide how to train!

With »Better Ears« you can decide for yourself what your training routine should look like. There are no rules you have to follow, you decide when to start and how often to practice.


10 different exercises included

»Better Ears« includes 10 different exercises:
• Interval recognition
• Scale recognition
• Chord recognition
• Chord progressions
• Pitch recognition
• Melodic dictation
• Tempo recognition
• Key Signature recognition
• Interval music reading
• Scale music reading
• Chord music reading
• Melody music reading


Custom scales, chords and chord progressions

The new editor for Chords, Scales and Chord Progressions allows you to add your own items.

5 different instruments

Choose your training sound from five different instruments. Better Ears comes with Acoustic Grand piano, Bright Acoustic Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Nylon Acoustic Guitar and Steel Acoustic Guitar.


Keyboard and Fretboard

»Better Ears« comes with a virtual keyboard and virtual guitar fretboard. You can key notes on either.


Four preset levels

»Better Ears« ships with four preset levels:
• Beginner
• Easy
• Normal
• Professional


Unlimited custom levels

Additionally you can can create your own levels, letting you train to your own specific needs. Put yourself in "Training Camp" to learn church modes, or concentrate on those two pesky intervals that constantly cause you problems.


Sync all of your devices

With »Better Ears« you can keep your Mac and your iOS devices in sync. You can choose what to sync: Your own levels, your statistics, your settings or all of this.


MIDI Support

»Better Ears« supports routing sound through an external MIDI device, allowing you to use your existing MIDI master keyboard or sound module. You can even control »Better Ears« using a connected keyboard.


Statistics

For every exercise »Better Ears« knows all your current stats, including how often you have answered each question correctly or incorrectly.


Wikipedia integration

»Better Ears« shows the relevant Wikipedia article for the current exercise. If a relevant article is not available online, another topically-appropriate article will be shown instead.

Ratings and reviews

Unfortunately there are multiple problems. Exercise settings are dark on dark, so I cant read anything. In melodic reading, notes are shifted on the staff which makes it useless. In chord learning mode it changes the key all the time so I cant compare for example Amaj7 to A7.

Few answers will say wrong, but say the right answer is what you chose. For exemple, you chose minor, and they say wrong, the right answer is minor. Annoying for that, but at least you get the right answer still. Just doesn't count them as rifht answer.

Incorrect notes shown in treble clef. One note out each time in treble clef. Thought I was going mad. Bass is fine.

What's new

Fixed Problem with the display of notes