Exercise areas in EarMaster
EarMaster offers 10 advanced ear training exercises in Intervals, Chords, Scales, Melodies and Rhythms. All exercises are developed together with music teachers and other music professionals. Each exercise will improve different areas of your musical ear and, together, they will develop greater musicality, confidence and enjoyment of music!

Intervals

Once you get the hang of intervals, it will be easier to transcribe songs, compose songs or tuning your guitar. It will help you figure out the melody of a song based on the intervals: "Oh, that's just a perfect fourth followed by a minor third". EarMaster has two exercises that will help you with just that:  Interval singing - NEW EarMaster plays a tone and ask you to sing or play an interval above or below this tone. Example: A tone (D) is being played and EarMaster says: "Sing the perfect fifth above D". You can also use this exercise to learn to spell intervals. If you answer the question using one of the other answer input methods, then this exercise becomes an "Interval spelling" exercise. Interval comparison EarMaster plays two intervals; you answer which one is larger. This exercise does not require any knowledge about notes and music theory. Therefore is it an excellent starting point for beginners. Interval identification EarMaster plays an harmonic or melodic interval, you identify it by its name or transcribe the tones on either the piano, guitar or the notesheet.

Interval identification (bass)   Interval Exercise setup

 

EarMaster Pro and EarMaster School New Features

NEW FEATURES   New standard tutor! More lessons and better instructions. It now includes 440 lessons! The difficulty of lessons is ranging from beginner to very advanced. New Jazz tutor! With 211 lessons specific to jazz, i.e. jazz harmonics and swing rhythms. The jazz tutor is a supplement to the standard tutor and is not for beginners. Some of the exercise areas have a high entry level, so beginners may want to start with the standard tutor. Two new exercise areas! Interval singing: EarMaster plays a tone and tell you to sing or play an interval above or below this tone. Rhythm notation: EarMaster plays a rhythm, you transcribe it on the staff. EarMaster evaluates how close you were. Bass, violin, cello and banjo! New on-screen instruments and great updates of guitar and piano! Sound2Midi 2.0 - faster and more accurate! Using the microphone for sound and rhythm answering is vastly improved. The new Sound2midi 2.0 technology is faster and offers a higher precision for pitches and rhythms. Customized string instruments! Support for all types of string instruments and tunings! All onscreen string instruments can be set to left handed editions! Guitar tuner! Powered by our Sound2Midi pitch recognition technology. This technology allows for real time chromatic pitch recognition to provide rapid and accurate guitar tuning. New look and feel! New toolbars, new wizards and new graphics for an intuitive and uncluttered user interface. More customized chords! The user can now define up to 120 custom chords, 120 chord progression and 120 scales. Voicing options! New voicing options in Chord identification: chords can now be played in Root position, Closed voicing and Open voicing (in EarMaster 4.0 it was always root position). Highscore! A new high score giving you the ability to compete with other users. Ear training wizard! New wizard gives you a quick overview of all exercises areas and training modes. Swing jazz rhythms! EarMaster now support swing jazz rhythms with the option to shuffle (swing) 8th and/or 16th. Live rhythm clapping feedback! All claps are shown in the staff while clapping! The claps are placed relative to the notes in the score to show the exact timing of your claps. Improved MIDI input! MIDI remote control of key features by tone, controller and program change. In the Chord progression exercise: Chords can now also be input by MIDI (detecting root tone and quality) Improved melodies for Melodic dictation! The algorithm that creates melodies has been improved so melodies sounds better. The melodies can now be made from custom scales (defined in the scale section). 8th and 16th rhythm values are now possible and they can be played with Swing feeling. Solfege tone naming! Choose if tone naming all over EarMaster should be standard anglo-saxon (C, D, E, etc) or Solfege (Do, Re, Mi, etc.) Transposing instruments! Use EarMaster with a transposing instrument. You can set the relation between transcribed and sounding tones. Evaluate note length! In the Rhythm clapping exercises you can now choose that EarMaster should evaluate the length of the notes you are clapping. Free-style rhythm clapping! Option in Rhythm imitation and rhythm reading, to clap without metronome i.e. start any time after the rhythm is played. "Family support!" All family members can use EarMaster Pro on the same computer. Users are identified by their Windows username. Note: Network sharing is still only possible with EarMaster School. Test facilities! Time limit on answering the questions, limit on the number of times the question can be played, and more...  With these facilities Pro users can test them self in any lesson, and teachers in EarMaster School can set up a test of the students. E-mail and Zip! Teachers and students can now exchange results and assignments by email. Fast and convenient. x Live student statistics! Teachers can follow the progress of each student with live scores and statistics (if EarMaster is used on a network computer). x User maintenance window! New user maintenance window for teachers to easily add, delete and manage users. x Improved Tutor editor! The Tutor editor is greatly improved with many new features and updated interface for easy usage. With a single click you can try the selected lesson in EarMaster to test your settings. x Improved user statistics! The music teacher have access to more detailed statistics on to students. The statistics window is now integrated in the user list for an easy overview of student's progress. x Easy network installation! EarMaster School is now much easier to install in a network. It can run directly from a server, which means that client computers need no installation and no configuration! ................ and hundreds of other improvements!

goto top> Comparison Between EarMaster Pro and EarMaster School

FEATURE PRO SCHOOL Standard tutor (450 lessons) Jazz tutor (211 lessons) Exercise areas     Interval Comparison     Interval Identification     Interval Singing     Chord Identification     Chord Inversions     Chord progressions     Scale Identification     Rhythm Reading     Rhythm Imitation     Rhythm dictation     Rhythm correction     Melodic dictation Create customized exercises Create new tutors   Ear training wizard On-screen guitar, piano, bass, staff, violin and more Custom on-screen string instruments (all tunings) Left handed string instruments on-screen Single click multiple-choice Sing, play and clap answers using a microphone Midi keyboard support Sound2midi 2.0 Metronome Instruments and sounds (Using General Midi) 128 128 High Score Guitar tuner Multiple users all using the same pc Multiple users across network x Multiple language support Export/import own results and assignments to email or disk Export/import all users results and assignments to email or disk Create custom chords, scales and chord progressions (Exercise setup) Choose specific keys and how the question should be placed in the key (Exercise setup) Choose tone range (Exercise setup) Choose time signatures and specific note values or rhythmic patterns (Exercise setup) Force exercise settings on users. (Time limits, answer method, etc.) x Comprehensive set of exercise settings    Auto new question    Auto replay of question    Limit the number of times a question can be played    Time limit on answering the question    Tone naming: anglo-saxon (C,D,E,etc) or Solfege (Do,Re,Mi,etc)    Clef can be G, F or C View own statistics View all students' statistics x   Student administration    x Organize users in a classes x Runs in a network x   Runs from a server x   Free support Free to try Multiuser licenses with academic pricing SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS  PRO SCHOOL Monitor resolution 800x600 800x600 Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP Disk space 8 MB 10 MB Sound Card RAM 256 MB 256 MB

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Do I need Ear Training? and what can it do it for me? A skilled car mechanic may take a car for a ride to test if everything is working correctly. He can determine if the engine, gearbox, brakes needs maintenance - by Ear. The mechanic hears the same sounds as everybody else, but his ear processes the sounds in another way. We could call it a " mechanic's ear" .

Do I need ear training? Music is really all about hearing! An internal sense of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, etc. You use your ear to recognize notes, intervals, chords, major / minor tonality, scales, seventh chords, dominants, and so forth. Does your ear perceive the difference between, for example, major and minor scales? or between a 4th and a 5th? A Musical Ear is the single most important skill for musicians, but most musicians have poor aural skills because they do not practice ear training. Are you one of them?     Melodies Do you know the frustration of trying to play some music in your head, but it just doesn't come out right? This is an example of what ear training can help you to improve. Ear training will help you to: Play the music you intend to play. Understand the music you hear. Hear the music in your head when you read it. Bring together sight and sound. Ear training develops greater musicality, confidence and enjoyment of music. You will experience that a Musical Ear helps you when you play music, sing, notate, improvise, compose and transcribe. Ear training will give you a better understanding of all the things you are doing with music. You will notice things you did not hear before, and your errors becomes easier to see so you can correct them and learn from them. A Musical Ear   You will develop many new skills with EarMaster: Improvise on your instrument - straight from your mind. Name tones and chords by ear. Transcribe a tune when you hear it. Learn and recall new songs by ear. Copy chords straight off a CD. Grasp rhythm patterns and replay it on your instrument. Compose music in your mind. Hear sheet music in your head. " See" the music you hear and notate it. Find desired tones by ear. Sight-read and sight-sing with perfection. Greater musicality and confidence. And much more..

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Academic Pricing

Product Price Inc VAT EarMaster School 5.0 Labpack (5 PCs) Allows schools to install EarMaster School 5.0 on 5 school computers £269 EarMaster School 5.0 (Site license) Allows schools to install EarMaster School 5.0 on all school computers at one campus/physical entity £449 EarMaster Pro 5.0 (Home User Site license) Allows students and employees at one campus/physical entity to install one copy of EarMaster Pro on a private computer. £449 EarMaster School 5.0 (5 PC) (upgrade) £135 EarMaster School 5.0 (Site license) (upgrade) Allows schools to install EarMaster School 5.0 on all school computers at one campus/physical entity £225 EarMaster Pro 5.0 (Home User Site license) (upgrade) Allows students and employees at one campus/physical entity to install one copy of EarMaster Pro on a private computer. £225 Academic Orders If you are purchasing on behalf of a School, University, College, any recognised educational institution, or government (including BBC) just fax (0870 873 8732) or post an official purchase order to: Et Cetera Distribution Valley House 2 Bradwood Court St Crispin Way Haslingden Lancs BB4 4PW UK. Please note subject to credit status, 30 day terms apply. Or Can be purchased from any of our Academic Resellers A Musical Ear   EarMaster Pro 5.0 and EarMaster School 5.0 are available in three multi user licenses.

goto top> Download free trial version Please, choose the version you want to download.     For music teachers and schools For all musicians     EarMaster School 5.0 Designed for music schools with extra features for the teacher.       (3.2 MB) EarMaster Pro 5.0 Ear training for musicians at any level playing any instrument.       (2.6 MB)