EarGuru vs BsnXcerpts

Only you can do the work of serious ear training. EarGuru helps you do it with three independent modes, each targeting a specific area. In LISTEN mode, EarGuru plays a group of notes, all different, and you try to identify them from lowest to highest. Beginners will want to start with 1, then move to 2. Experts can go all the way to 11 notes if they choose to. In PLAY mode, EarGuru plays a note, or a chord of up to 4 notes, and you play it back as quickly as possible on your instrument before it moves on to the next one. In SING mode, EarGuru asks you to sing a note, and as you're singing, EarGuru plays the note so that you can make sure you've sung it correctly and in tune. All three modes can be used without looking at the screen, using the CONTINUOUS PLAY mode. This app relies on you, as a serious musician, to self-evaluate. If used regularly, it can completely transform your hearing.

Contained in this app are 46 excerpts commonly asked on orchestral auditions. Every effort has been made to keep the visual quality high, without sacrificing the original appearance of the excerpts. Some of the excerpts may not look the best, but it is in my opinion that this is better than re-engraving the parts. This app is equally geared towards bassoon and contrabassoon, containing the major excerpts for both instruments. You can also get random excerpts using the "randomize" feature, and get a jump start on auditions. The excerpts in this app are: Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3 Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Beethoven Symphony No. 6 Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Brahms Symphony No. 1 Brahms Symphony No. 3 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn Brahms Violin Concerto Donizetti L'elisir d'amore Dukas L'Apprenti sorcier Mahler Symphony No. 2 Mahler Symphony No. 4 Mahler Symphony No. 5 Mahler Symphony No. 9 Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 Mozart Così fan tutte Mozart Symphony No. 35 Mozart Symphony No. 41 Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Ravel Boléro (Note: Sheet music unavailable for Ravel due to copyright limitations) Ravel Ma mére l'Oye (Note: Sheet music unavailable for Ravel due to copyright limitations) Ravel Miroirs (Note: Sheet music unavailable for Ravel due to copyright limitations) Ravel Rapsodie espagnole (Note: Sheet music unavailable for Ravel due to copyright limitations) Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Rossini La gazza ladra Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Sibelius Violin Concerto Smetana The Bartered Bride Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Strauss Death and Transfiguration Strauss Don Juan Strauss Don Quixote Strauss Ein Heldenleben Strauss Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Stravinsky The Firebird Stravinsky L'histoire du soldat Stravinsky Le Chant du rossignol Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 Wagner Tannhäuser