Functional Ear Trainer vs Sing Scales

Have you (or maybe one of your friends) ever wanted to learn to transcribe or play music by ear? It is so important for a musician to know what you are hearing. A good musical ear helps when you are composing, improvising, transcribing melodies, or playing with others. Most likely you have already tried different programs to learn to recognize intervals or even to acquire perfect pitch. However, although such programs develop your ear, but can you actually play any melody you hear as soon as you listen to it? Imagine you could understand music... It is like when somebody is talking to you, you not only hear pleasant sounds, but you recognize words and their meaning. One day I came across Alain Benbassat's program called "Functional Ear Trainer" and have been using it ever since. It is based on Alain's method to learn to recognize tones. The main difference between the Functional Ear Trainer and other methods is that it teaches you to distinguish between tones in the context of a particular musical key. You begin to recognize the role (or function) of each tone in this key, which is incredibly similar to its role in other keys of the same scale. And it is *guaranteed* anyone can gradually develop this skill. It does not matter: - who you are - an absolute beginner in music or a virtuoso professional musician; - how old you are - a 3 yo kid or a 90+ adult; - what musical instrument you play (you don't even have to play one). The only requirement is to practice for 10 minutes a day. I was so excited about this ear trainer that I have developed a mobile app based on the Alain Benbassat method. I hope you will find it useful.

Practice the most fundamental yet creatively challenging art of singing musical scales. Voice training fine tunes the larynx and its vocal cords towards producing and sustaining consistent sound frequencies. Extensive scale library offers: — 100+ common scales — tempo setting — configurable scale stepping pattern BUILT FOR NON-MUSICIANS* The Sing Scales app is purposefully built with non-musicians in mind. The user interface is designed to present musical scales in an interactive manner. The user gradually acquires understanding through experimentation. The app doesn’t expect the user to have pre-existing knowledge of music theory. Singing scales is just one piano key tap away — make the lowest naturally comfortable “Do” sound, tap on the highlighted piano key and start singing the scale right away. It doesn’t have to be more complicated than that. * Musicians are welcome too, scales are for everyone! DOMAIN OF APPLICATION Singing musical scales is a foundational skill required to build one’s vocal and hearing faculties. The skill is immensely beneficial for a number of activities: – mastering the art of musical improvisation – ear training – self-development work on building confident and flexible voice – therapeutical applications that use voice work as the medium Ear training is a natural outcome of singing scales. Once one acquires the feeling of producing a certain pitch, a link to the hearing faculty is being established. WHY SING SCALES? What’s so unique about signing musical scales? Why not just learn to sing songs? It’s much easier to produce relative pitches than to be exact with one’s voice modulation. Learning to sing songs or whistling melodies is an exercise in relative perception. One can produce interesting results but foundational skill building would be missed. The true command of one’s voice and its connectedness to musical hearing begins from the ability to answer questions like: “What note am I voicing right now?” “How can I make a correct Fa pitch?” “What is the interval between the two notes I am hearing?” It’s a challenge worth pursuing! TECHNIQUE OVERVIEW The Sing Scales app is a flexible voice measurement tool. The user can practice singing solfège syllables of Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti or any sequence of syllables of choice. For example, singing a scale in La-La-La requires a superb tuning of one’s vocal cords. RICH LIBRARY OF MUSICAL SCALES The app comes with a significant library of more than 100 known scales. Each scale can be played back in any key. A piano keyboard is also provided for interactive scale exploration. The full list of provided scale classes is as follows: Major, Minor, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, Natural Minor, Ionian, Aeolian, Dorian, Mixolydian, Phrygian, Ultraphrygian, Lydian, Locrian, Super Locrian, Chromatic, Whole, Altered, Augmented, Dominant 7th, Half Diminished, Leading Whole Tone, Diminished Whole Tone, Overtone, Nine Tone, Diatonic, Enigmatic, Double Harmonic, Auxiliary Diminished, Six Tone Symmetrical, Neopolitan, Prometheus, Pelog, Pentatonic Major, Jazz Melodic Minor, Spanish Gypsy, Eight Tone Spanish, Hungarian Major, Romanian Minor, Flamenco, Gypsy, Bebop Dominant, Chinese, Oriental, Hirajoshi, Ichikosucho, Kumoi, Yo, Iwato, Mongolian, Hindu, Byzantine, Arabian, Persian, Mohammedan, Maqam, Algerian, Balinese, Purvi Theta, Todi Theta, Tritone, Insen, Istrian, Pfluke, Ukrainian Dorian, Hawaiian, Man Gong, Ritsusen. NECESSARY TECHNICALITIES… Sections below will talk about how the app handles your data and will provide some essential online links. YOUR DATA The Sing Scales app does NOT collect any of your personal data. The app does NOT require an account creation. TERMS, CONDITIONS & PRIVACY For the terms and conditions please visit: https://seqfx.com/sing-scales-voice-training/tos For the privacy policy please visit: https://seqfx.com/sing-scales-voice-training/privacy