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FREE EAR TRAINING
EAR TONER
Ear Toner is a very handy free tool for beginners to practice ear training on intervals, chords, scales and identify in tune, flat or sharp tuning.
You have 2 options: practice and listen.
There is a settings page where you can personalize the program.
I found this software very easy to use and a lot of fun.
Depending on your computer set up you may have to download sounds separately but on my Mac setup it worked fine.
You can even choose from a whole set of midi instruments in the settings window.
Compared to some of the other free products this was a hassle free easy download.
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The Free Ear Trainer claims that the diligent user will be able to play or sing simple melodies by ear after using the program for a few weeks.
This is mainly done by learning ascending and descending intervals appearing between 2 notes in melodies of a whole lot of songs.
They range from the Beatles, to West Side Story to the Classics. You can also add your own songs.
It tells you when you made a mistake and keeps score of hits and misses.
If you just want to practice diatonic intervals, you can disable the chromatic ones.
There is a help page, a volume control and a slider to adjust the speed of the questions.
Recent additions are a chord trainer and a practise scales feature.
What appeals to me about the free online ear trainer is the fact that you use it straight from the browser. No download required, just open the webpage and off you go.
This is a very handy piece of software for the ear training beginner.
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Of the free ear training programs available, Solfege is well know to be the best.
It is easy to use and features the whole range of exercises for interval, chord, scales and rhythm training.
If you have a microphone you can sing the answers to interval and chord questions.
That in itself is a handy tool for singers and non singers as I believe strongly in vocalizing answers especially for beginners.
There is a theory section which includes naming intervals and scales and, not surprisingly, training in solfege.
Under the miscellaneous pull down you'll find intonation, dictation and training on cadences amongst others.
When you have done enough practice you can test your knowledge and should you get lost, there is a handy help section.
The one issue I have with this software is that the download page is not very user friendly.
There are lots of versions, directions and geek talk which I found off putting.
I tried on 4 different occasions to download the Mac version without success.
Finally I fired up the trusty old PC and presto, Solfege is now residing happily on it.
All in all: very worthwhile (if you can find your way past the download page)
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While this free software looks quite interesting on the Tete tutorial page, I have not managed to open the downloaded program file on either my Mac or PC.
There is a whole lot of explanation about what the user needs to do to make it work including downloading the Java Runtime Environment and separately downloading sound files so you can hear the music examples.
Frankly I'm not geeky enough to do all that nor can I be bothered time wise.
But apart from all that, the tutorial looks quite interesting and seems to include many of the usual ear training features.
So if you can be bothered working out all the download instructions this maybe just what you're looking for.
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Ear Training Tips
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