Ear Trainer

Ear Trainer is an educational tool designed for musicians, music students and anyone interested in improving ones musical ear. It has over 260 individual exercises that are conveniently placed into nine different areas of study.

No need to be an expert, Ear Trainer is suitable for all users from beginner to very advanced. No matter what level your musical hearing skills are, Ear Trainer will help to hone them.

Exercises

  • Interval Comparison
  • Interval Identification
  • Chord Identification
  • Chord Inversions
  • Chord Progressions
  • Scales
  • Note relative to chord
  • Relative Pitch
  • Melody Exercises
  • Custom Exercises

Each exercise has a short description of its purpose and optional preview. A virtual piano keyboard and note view in each exercise helps you visually understand and analyze the notes that have been played. To aid your progression you can compare the different options after answering. (You can even play the virtual piano if you like!)

As you work through the exercises, statistics are collected so that you can see your progress.

The questions in the exercises are randomly generated so you can do them over and over again as many times as you like to continue to hone your skills.

Custom Exercises

Users can create their own custom exercises to match their desired areas of study and/or skill level. The following areas are available for custom exercises:

  • Interval Comparison
  • Interval Identification
  • Chord Identification
  • Chord Inversions
  • Chord Progressions
  • Scale Identifiation
  • Note after chord

Share Custom Exercises

Custom exercises can be shared with friends and class mates through Email, AirDrop and iMessage.

Features

  • Over 260 built-in exercises
  • Custom exercises that can be shared
  • Visual feedback on virtual Piano and note view
  • Playable virtual piano
  • Statistics
  • Studio sound quality
  • Runs natively on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

Note Trainer

Note Trainer is an app designed to help train your ability to read music. It is aimed at beginners, music students, musicians and anyone interested in musical reading. Note Trainer includes exercises for reading notes and chords.

Exercise levels range from beginner to advanced. Note Trainer will guide you and recommend exercises to help you gradually improve your skills. More advanced users can focus on different areas of the application or select to start training at a higher level. You can also create custom exercises to train specific areas of music reading.

Features

  • Preset exercises for notes and chords
  • Custom exercises for notes and chords
  • Note Trainer guides you and instructs when you are ready to continue to new exercises
  • Answer using MIDI device, virtual piano or answer buttons
  • Visual feedback on virtual Piano and note view
  • Playable virtual piano
  • Time challenge mode
  • Statistics
  • Studio sound quality
  • Localized for English, German and Swedish
  • Runs natively on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

Pulse

Musicians practice playing to metronomes to develop and maintain a sense of timing and tempo.

Pulse is a brand new metronome built from the ground up. It does what you would expect from a metronome but it also has exercises that are designed to challenge and improve your sense of timing.

Pulse features:

  • Perfect timing
  • Training mode using modifiers
  • Tap to set tempo
  • Arrange songs in setlists
  • Choose among several color themes

Improve your sense of timing with modifiers. Pulse comes with seven exercise modes built in. The purpose of them is to challenge and improve your internal clock.

These are the modifiers:

  • Mute beats
  • Mute bars
  • Shift beats
  • Random Start Tempo
  • Accelerator
  • Decelerator
  • Rollercoaster

About dev4phone

dev4phone is a company run by two developers in Stockholm, Sweden. We started this company out of an admiration for the iPhone. We have over 25 years of experience developing applications and solutions for a wide range of platforms. We are driven by the goal to make the apps we ourselves want and to make our apps as good as we possible can!

We hope that you enjoy using our apps as much as we enjoy making them and we welcome feedback, suggestions and ideas.