EarMaster User Reviews

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Miracle app

This app is incredible! I has so many different ways of training your ear but what I find the most useful is the feature to answer questions with our own voice. Itโ€™s great to be able to identify intervals but to be able to anticipate notes and sing them in your head is a very valuable skill and this app trains that ability incredibly well. Oh and its pretty darn cheap! 6/5 stars
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Great app

I love this app! I use it every day and I am clearly improving!

My music teacher makes us use this

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Response from developer

A wise teacher indeed ๐Ÿ˜Š Best wishes for this new school year! What can we do to get those 2 missing stars?

meh.

meh.

Great

This is a great app. Voice leading is nice enough during the harmonic excercise. I think it would be great to have more variety in chord changes and chord progressions.

Response from developer

Thanks a lot for your kind word and suggestion. We have planned some very nice improvements for harmonic ear training, which will be added in a future update.

Microphone?

On iPad. You will spend a great deal of time trying to get the app to pick up your internal or even external mic every single time you open it. It probably works fine on the desktop version. I wouldnโ€™t know because you have to buy the desktop version separate from the mobile app. Not buying the software twice. Bad business.
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Response from developer

Hi, we also offer a subscription which gives access to all sections on all platforms for a low monthly or annual fee. On iPad, mic input shoudl work out of the box, so I would like to find out what the issue you are experiencing is caused by. Could you please contact our support at support@earmaster.com and explain exactly what is happening when you try to use the microphone feature. If you cna make a short video showing exactly what is happening, that would be a huge help to enable us to solve this with you.

Super Program with some wrinkles

Love the program! Provides terrific value and really helps mature my pretty weak ear. Thank you!
The down side is it seems to crash way too much and I get error messages about half the time. Then I just give it an hour or three before trying again. Although this is a pain, especially after they whack you for an additional $ 12 or more, the quality of the training might be worth it.
Hopefully, the powers that be will figure out and correct.
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Does a Great Job

This app does everything any musician needs to excel at hearing the music and knowing what they are hearing. Congrats to the developers.

Would be great if you could choose vocal range!

As a baritone, the app proved useless as it continually offered me soprano notes to sing. There appears to be no way to specify SATB, which would seem to be a standard requirement for a training app of this nature. Very disappointing.

Response from developer

You can indeed select any vocal range you want in the App's preferences. It's actually the very first section in the preferences, labelled "Vocal Range". Then the exercises will adapt to your voice. But notice that you can also sing tones in any octave and the app will automatically detect that and transpose your answer to the octave of the questions, exactly like you would in situation where you are singing back the notes played by a recorder or a violin. EarMaster is a big app that you can customize and almost any way you want to, just make sure to spend some time exploring what it can. FOr example, you can set it up to do Functional Ear Training by enabling "Scale Degrees" or "Movable- Do Solfege" as tone nomaing option, or set time limits, change keys and clefs, etc. I hope you'll give it another spin, I don't think you will find a more complete app for ear training and sight-singing practice on the App Store! Best wishes from EarMaster

Almost perfect

Heads and shoulders above all other ear apps. What it needs for the Jazz Melodic Dictation section is optional jazz charts (chord progressions written above the melody, usually given to the rhythm section).

Actual lessons on jazz melody/harmony as it relates to the progressions would be nice, but having the jazz section presented as jazz charts instead of classically would be awesome.

In the Jazz Chord Progressions it would be nice to have a Jazz Standards Section, Autumn Leaves, Take The A-Train, Summertime, etc.
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