Neuropitch vs Hark

We believe that developing perfect pitch as an adult is an extremely difficult, if not impossible, endeavor riddled with pseudoscience making lofty promises. Most perfect pitch courses offer a dream with little in results. However, many advanced musicians know there is another way. With strong relative pitch and one reference note burned into our brain, we can develop quasi perfect pitch as adults. Quasi perfect pitch is functionally very similar to perfect pitch. If we have one personal note we can reliably hear, sing, and feel resonating in our body, we can use relative pitch to find any note. Relative pitch can be aquired as an adult and is the typical ear training we see in apps like Neurofret where we figure the relationship between notes, intervals, scales degrees, major 3rds, perfect 4ths etc. Neuropitch bypasses all of the unknowns of adult perfect pitch acquisition by acknowledging the near impossible goal post and setting our sights on what is actually possible. Neuropitch is essentially a timer and tuner that reminds us to periodically test the recall of our chosen personal note while giving us feedback to track our progress. This is not an app we spend hours playing, shooting in the dark with all 12 notes. It just takes a few seconds at a time to refresh the note that's personal to us, and we continuously test it throughout our day and week. What personal note should we choose? That depends on our unique experience. Have a favorite song from when you were a kid? Can you see the music video in your minds' eye? Can you easily sing it? The more ways we can conjure a deep experience from our childhood, the better we can unearth the pitch information. For example C3 is a lower note and may be hard for some of us, but many of us remember the opening chord from "Lean on me" or "Unchained melody" and can ignite the approximate pitch information by running the song in our heads. The stronger and more foundational memory, the better. A more contemporary example is the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth. By thinking of the music video, the song, how we felt listening to it, many of us could come very close to the singer's starting note of F#3 in "SOME body". Neuropitch harnesses our deep memories and experiences for the very practical and realistic goal of developing quasi perfect pitch.

Hark trains your ear the way musicians actually hear: every note as a degree of the key, not a distance from the note before it. A cadence — or a drone — puts the tonic in your ear. A note sounds. You answer on a ladder of degrees, with the home note at the bottom like the ground. Then the note walks home, step by step, back to the tonic, so you hear the pull instead of reading about it. That walk is the explanation. There is no lecture. FOUR KINDS OF TRAINING • Degrees — one note at a time, from two degrees up to all twelve • Melodies — short phrases, name every note in order • Chords in the key — I, IV, V and the rest, heard by function • Progressions — three and four chords in a row INSIDE • A ladder of seven colours: tonic gold, dominant blue, leading tone red • Notes on a staff, spelled the way the key spells them • The walk home after every answer • Hands-free: train with the screen off, on a walk or in the car. The key, the note, a pause for your answer, then the answer spoken aloud. • Explore: hold any degree in any key and listen. No score, no history. • Five instruments: piano, guitar, strings, choir, electric piano • Your map: accuracy by degree and by chord, and what your ear mixes up • Ten languages, and a ladder labelled with numbers, movable-do syllables or note names — Do–Si, Do–Ti, H and B where they belong FREE, FOR GOOD Five degree levels in C major — up to all seven degrees across two octaves — two melody levels, two chord levels, the first progression level, hands-free training, the staff, a week of statistics, and all of Explore: every degree in every key, there to listen to. No daily cap, no timers. HARK PRO — MONTHLY, YEARLY OR ONCE Training in all twelve keys, chromatic degrees, minor keys, three octaves, all seven chords with sevenths, progressions, melodies up to five notes, custom drills, and the full map of your ear with four weeks of history. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, with a one-week free trial for eligible customers, or a one-time purchase for permanent Pro access. Only one free trial is available per subscription group. After the trial, the selected subscription renews at the price shown in the app. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel them in your Apple Account subscription settings. To avoid a charge after a free trial, cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. The free levels stay free either way. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS No sign-up, no ads, no streaks and no nagging. Your individual answers and detailed training history stay on your device. The app sends a limited set of usage events with a random installation identifier, including session summaries and purchase or free-trial events, to help us understand how it works. The privacy policy lists what is sent. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hark-ear.pages.dev/privacy