Complete Ear Trainer

The app does a great job of gamifying many critical aspects of ear training to the point where it is fun, challenging, and habit forming. As a learner I would like to point out two of the app’s current weaknesses- 1, I think the title “Complete” ear trainer is a misnomer when it is missing functional ear training/degree in context exercises completely from its repertoire. 2, every exercise I have done until now has a way to learn after you make a mistake, but the lessons that I have been looking forward to (chords and degrees) provide no way to give myself auditory feedback after an error, and only plays a cadence one time before asking six questions wirh silence in between. In this format I feel like I learn nothing from my mistakes and the auditory memory of the context key disappears quickly. I wish it either played a new cadence for each question like many other ear training platforms do, or gives an option to relisten to the root chord and the test chord after a mistake, or literally any form of feedback at all. Truly if these two issues were resolved this app would be near flawless, however as long as I have to go to other platforms for certain ear training exercises it is certainly not “complete”

I’m a professional classical musician and this is the best ear training app I’ve ever used. This one is easily the best to date. My only requests are 1) that they go back to the old leaderboard format. This new internal leaderboard system requires an account to be created and there are no people on the leaderboards anymore when there used to be thousands. 2) the melodic dictations start with a cadence to give you the key and sound like Melodies from a normal piece of music (at least for the earlier stages). Right now the Melodies sound random and it’s hard to find a tonal center. But the best thing about this app is it’s difficulty, so maybe it’s better to do dictations without this and to solely rely on intervals.

Wow. This app is changing my world! I’ve been in composing classes and in awe of all the students who just hear the chord types off the bat. That seemed like such an unattainable dream. I have been using this for about five weeks now and the results are astounding. I got stuck on phase two in “easy mode” for about ten days, trying to distinguish between harmonic fourths and fifths. I tried about a half hour a day and got so frustrated and felt so stupid. But one day I had a breakthrough and can hear SO much better! Chords and relationships that were opaque are crystal clear now. This is really helping my composing and the pitch when I sing. It’s also really helping me retain melodies that I write for much longer. Now that I can hear all the jumps in them, my brain can stop floundering and remember so much more. This app was EXACTLY what I needed and will highly recommend it to my friends.