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Brilliant!
I've always been a bit frustrated that I couldn't take the desktop with me and never found anything close enough to it in the App Store. So very pleased you have made this mobile version.
FET has pretty much changed my life, and having it mobile will keep me better on it than before.
Note: I saw one review lamenting that you can't set it to movable Do--you can! (And should!) it's in the settings.Show lessDalianguy
Very helpful!
Highly recommend to musicians wishing to train their ear, and skills in improv, writing, and general playing.KrashTheWorld
Best ear training app there is
This app is incredibly good. Plain, simple, functional and very useful. If you want to develop good relative pitch, use it.
Many thanks to the developer for making it available to us. It has helped me hugely (despite my glacial progress - you may as I do need a lot of patience but it really is useful.)
There are no ads and no offers to sell you anything.Show lessChallenged learner
Easy to Use 10 Min Ear Training System
App is easy to use with a clean, intuitive layout. The ear training system is easy to follow and allows you to progress at your own pace. The unique ear training system covers major, minor and chromatic scales in different keys. It keeps track of your progress automatically to keep you on track and works well in just 10 minutes a day. Free app with no annoying ads, no up-selling. Well done!Show lessAM1_LA
Surprisingly fast progress with this!
In only a few weeks of daily use, I’m recognizing notes from many octaves of the C major scale with high accuracy. Amazed!Jimmy Teeeee
Outstanding
I feel this is a simple, very well done app that does what it says. It’s found a specific category of (often undertrained) skills and elegantly guides and instructs you on how to train them and why they’re important.
What’s more, I think this certain category of skills is very often overlooked.
It’s designed very well and logically with no frills and with some interesting metrics and data about how you’re doing.
Finally it does not claim to be the one thing you’re missing and holding you back from becoming an amazing singer. That’s because it is not. As the creator says, it’s a tool that can help you develop and refine your ability to hear pitches relative to others and stay in key. They do not try extremely hard to sell it because they know what it is and that it is great! After going through some of the instructions, although I had never heard of or have met Korchan, I’d bet he (or whoever made and placed the instructions/lessons) is very smart and self aware. Again not because of a use of big words or vocabulary but just because of the usefulness, digestibility, and timeliness of the instructions.
This app does everything well and, to me, nothing poorly.
And it’s free! No ads.Show lessUnyousual
A better approach to ear training
As a music student I used interval and chord ear training software for my theory classes. I learned fixed solfege and spent countless hours listening to a shuffle of interval training mp3s. It’s possible that it’s just the cumulative effect of all that work paying off now, but with this app I’m seeing much faster results than with interval training. I think the functional approach is brilliant and wish I had started from this perspective years ago. I also see the possibility of this helping with absolute pitch- I correctly identified the note of my microwave by asking what it felt like. After only a few days working with this app, I was able to instantly say it felt like the third of E. I realized that because I play guitar and have played a lot of music in its most resonant major key, this is a strong tonal reference for me.Show lesss.e.moore
Helping finally click
I’ve tried ear training with apps before, not having put a mountain of effort in, but experiencing frustration when I’ve, after making seemingly solid progress, mistaken a perfect 5th for a major second or visa versa. And the more obscure intervals I might get a handle on during a session, but the feel wouldn’t crystallise between sessions.
The big difference with this app is the contextual mechanism it coaches you to employ, walking up or down the scale of the current ket to the nearest tonic. It’s simple, but for me has made a huge difference, to whereby having used the app for three days I’m correctly identifying obvious and a fair few of the more obscure intervals across sessions with good (not yet flawless) accuracy. And it doesn’t feel like I’m stumbling around in the dark!
All that and this app is free and well developed. There are a few glitches with the sound every so often when it’s like the processor wants to take a split-second nap, but other than that, it’s perfect.
Many thanks!Show lessdavid.maj7
Utterly fantastic
Every intuitive interface, lots of options. My only problem is that sometimes you'll get a ridiculous number of repeated questions e.g. 4-6 questions where the answer is the tonic. This ruins a 20 question quiz, at least for average-improvement purposes... But you can customize your own quizzes! Which allows for the removal of the simplest answersShow lessNMLjustwantedtowriteareview
Great Method
I took an ear training class that was way over my head and felt hopeless. The app used by the class, while good, did not appeal to my level of experience. The Functional Ear Trainer change my mind and help me develop a memory structure and a sense for notes through deductive reasoning. I use it every day and the training has been crucial for my ability to sing jazz standards. I highly recommend this app to anyone on both sides of the stage in music.Show lessRob Ogilvie
