Toned Ear vs DroneTone Lite

This app includes the following ear training exercises: Intervals: In this exercise, you will hear two notes in sequence. Your goal is to identify the interval between the two notes. Chords: In this exercise, you will hear a chord. Your goal is to identify the type of chord that you heard. Scales: In this exercise, you will hear a scale. Your goal is to identify the name of the scale that you heard. Chord Progressions: In this exercise, you will hear a chord progression. Your goal is to identify each chord that you heard. Perfect Pitch: In this exercise, you will hear a single note. Your goal is to identify the name of the note. Scale Degrees (functional): In this exercise, you will hear a short chord progression followed by a single note. You must identify the scale degree of that note relative to the key established by the chord progression. This is also known as "functional ear training". Intervals in Context (functional): This exercise combines the "Intervals" and "Scale Degrees" exercises. In this exercise, you will hear a short chord progression followed by two notes. You must identify the major scale degrees of the two notes relative to the key established by the chord progression as well as the interval between the two notes. Melodic Dictation: In this exercise, you will hear a short chord progression followed by a short melody. You must identify the major scale degree of each note in the melody.

Drone Tone Tool is an app created by professional musicians and music educators providing high quality reference pitches with the rich overtones of real cellos. We encourage musicians of all abilities to experience the benefits of reference tone practice! Why real cello drones? There are many electronic tone generators, and while they are better than nothing, they lack complexity of overtones and can be painful to listen to. Our cello drones are pleasing to the ear, rich in overtones and contain layered octaves to facilitate practice in all registers. Purpose and benefit of reference/drone tones: A reference (or drone) tone provides a center of harmonic stability. Our ears are able to discern the way that multiple pitches interact while strengthening our internal sense of pitch. By playing with a movable pitch (instrument or voice) relative to a fixed pitch (drone tone) we can start to perceive truly consonant perfect intervals, and 'shades' or 'colors' within Major/Minor intervals. This heightened awareness of relative pitch leads to artistry through intonation.