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I needed an ear training app for one of my students. This has some promising potential.
There is a bug in the app where it will play perfect 5ths in a row for serveral questions and there's no way to report the bug on their website.
Some of the features lacking are:
- Not able to see which intervals you are having trouble with.
- Not able to see what you are proficent at.
- The "Last Session" score is alway 0s
- No ablity to retake a lesson if you have a passing score.
- No real ability to customize a lesson if you want more questions at a specific level.
There is a bug in the app where it will play perfect 5ths in a row for serveral questions and there's no way to report the bug on their website.
Some of the features lacking are:
- Not able to see which intervals you are having trouble with.
- Not able to see what you are proficent at.
- The "Last Session" score is alway 0s
- No ablity to retake a lesson if you have a passing score.
- No real ability to customize a lesson if you want more questions at a specific level.
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No feedback equals a waste of time for beginners
The app doesn’t tell you if you are high/low/fast/slow so there is no way to improve your performance except to guess over and over
Good resource
It’s a good resource for ear training but I find the rhythmic variations a little dumb and they don’t have much of a feel to them. It feels like they’ve been quantised. It also seems to be a little temperamental when using with AirPods.
This is gonna help me
Definitely a unique way to train that stubborn ear hole!
I’m liking it, works with an audio interface and seems to be tracking fairly well. Look forward to it expanding in visual tools.
Great so far though
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I’m liking it, works with an audio interface and seems to be tracking fairly well. Look forward to it expanding in visual tools.
Great so far though
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What I was looking for
I described what I wanted, to a music group, and this what I got. Surprised and a little frustrated that what I had been looking for on my own, had never come up in all my searches. Happy to have found it. A couple of concerns: occasionally notes sounds bad/truncated(clanky). Is this on purpose? The second is not knowing *how* far off I am when I get it wrong. I think a meter of some kind or a waveform overlay/ comparison. I’d also prefer to correct my mistakes before moving on.
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Best in class ear training.
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best and this is a fine example. Other ear training apps often have too many bells and whistles and you end up getting lost in a myriad of exercises. This is simple - hear a pitch and rhythm and play it back correctly on your instrument. Your progress is saved and you can set the level of complexity. Great for musicians learning to improvise. Highly recommended.
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Great App, would love midi input
This is the Ear training app that I’ve been waiting for! My ears are better with the first day.
I would love a midi input so I can practice with headphones on.
Love it!
I would love a midi input so I can practice with headphones on.
Love it!
I love it, but….
I love the very minimal yet powerful way this app works. I’ve admittedly only been using it for an hour or so.
I wanted to move over from voice to my piano and try it with the piano, however I was scared to do so because it seemed like if I switched instruments I was still where I left off on voice.
I think it would be nice to have a different set for each instrument. I sing and play many instruments.
I would like to do 15 minutes on voice, then 15 on piano, then 15 on guitar…. You get the point.
Seems like an easy fix.
Thanks for making such a useful simple app !
Sincerely,
Steve
I wanted to move over from voice to my piano and try it with the piano, however I was scared to do so because it seemed like if I switched instruments I was still where I left off on voice.
I think it would be nice to have a different set for each instrument. I sing and play many instruments.
I would like to do 15 minutes on voice, then 15 on piano, then 15 on guitar…. You get the point.
Seems like an easy fix.
Thanks for making such a useful simple app !
Sincerely,
Steve
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Good start, but needs work
Great idea so I wish I liked it more. But I find myself constantly wondering why it liked some responses and not others. This really needs some feedback to tell you which note it didn’t like and why (too late, too early, wrong pitch???). Sometimes when I thought I nailed it it I would get a zero score and other times when I messed up I would get 2/2. It seems to like if you rush the beat or if you correct a note better than getting it right away.
Also, plug your phone in. This app uses your battery fast.
Also, plug your phone in. This app uses your battery fast.
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Woefully inaccessible with voiceover
Purchase this app with the hope that it would be a valuable resource for my voice training, but I wasn’t even able to navigate the first screen after enabling notifications. Incredibley disappointing as it seems like a great concept.
Please make improvements if possible
Please make improvements if possible
Response from developer
Please contact us at support@pitchbop.com and we are pretty sure we can help you with your issues.
Great app!
Love PitchBop! Super fun, user friendly, and never dull!
Best ear training app, want more!
This app fills an important gap in my ear training that has translated to musically useful results in a very short time! The big difference between this and other ear training programs/recordings I've tried is the focus on imitation rather than interval identification. Interval identification may be important for some musical tasks, but when you're playing live you don't have time to label every interval that comes along.
I love that the rhythmic side of the melodies is given the emphasis it deserves- and how the metronome divides the beat in different ways as you progress.
I also love that the app automatically progresses to the next level based on your performance. This enables me to play PitchBop hands-free with my voice while working on other tasks.
I still have a way to go before I'll have total mastery of the most difficult exercises, but once I reach that point, I'd love to hear some other features:
1. Longer melodies
2. Melodies that pivot from one scale to another.
3. A chord tone mode, possibly over short chord sequences, which could progress in difficulty from 3rds/7ths of chords to chromaticism with addition of other chord tones, scale and nonscale chord tones.
Or I could just go transcribe those things from jazz tunes myself, empowered by what I've learned from your already excellent app! :)
I love that the rhythmic side of the melodies is given the emphasis it deserves- and how the metronome divides the beat in different ways as you progress.
I also love that the app automatically progresses to the next level based on your performance. This enables me to play PitchBop hands-free with my voice while working on other tasks.
I still have a way to go before I'll have total mastery of the most difficult exercises, but once I reach that point, I'd love to hear some other features:
1. Longer melodies
2. Melodies that pivot from one scale to another.
3. A chord tone mode, possibly over short chord sequences, which could progress in difficulty from 3rds/7ths of chords to chromaticism with addition of other chord tones, scale and nonscale chord tones.
Or I could just go transcribe those things from jazz tunes myself, empowered by what I've learned from your already excellent app! :)
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Nice app, but would be better if....
1. We had the option to play a lead in that plays the root or cadence of the upcoming melody, so we could tell what key we are in. To some of us, the key is important to hearing the melody. Make this an optional setting if you want.
2. We had the option of a 1 measure lead in that just counts in the upcoming melody. Right now, the melodies come kinda fast sometimes. Make this an optional setting if you want.
2. We had the option of a 1 measure lead in that just counts in the upcoming melody. Right now, the melodies come kinda fast sometimes. Make this an optional setting if you want.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the review and the suggestions! There’s a good point on both suggestions but let us explain why PitchBop has been developed without those two options: _____ 1. The app plays at the same key center for at least one section (10-40 calls in a row) so, you don’t need a cadence to establish the key before every melody. Recognizing the scale/mode by listening to a phrase is a aural skill that needs to be developed in order to have a good ear. Also, being able to hear the change of the key center from one section to the other is a skill we have to develop as well, there will not be cadences when playing live music, right? _____ 2. PitchBop is based on the Call-and-Response model. We wanted the user to get into this flow and be able to interact. Imagine two guitar players trading 2-bar phrases over a blues.
Humbling
Everyone Tessa me what a good ear I have. Well, Pitch Bop puts my ego in its place. I absolutely love it!
Response from developer
Well, our ego is in a similar place 🙂 Thank you so much for the great review!
Love it!
Super helpful and great way to develop ear training!
Response from developer
Thank you so much for the review! We are glad you are enjoying the app! 🙂🙂🙂
