Product Overview: Complete Ear Trainer
The Complete Ear Trainer is a comprehensive and engaging ear training app designed specifically for musicians to enhance their aural skills and music theory knowledge. Developed with strong pedagogical concepts and a user-friendly, game-like interface, this app is ideal for musicians of all levels, from beginners to advanced professionals.
What the Product Does
The Complete Ear Trainer aims to improve various aspects of a musician’s skills, including improvisation, composition, arrangement, interpretation, singing, and playing in a band. By focusing on relative pitch development and aural skills, the app helps musicians to better recognize and reproduce musical elements such as intervals, chords, scales, and chord progressions.
Key Features and Functionality
Extensive Content
- The app offers an extensive range of content, including 11 drill types, 24 intervals, 36 chord types, chord inversions, 28 scale types, melodic dictations, and chord progressions. This comprehensive coverage ensures that users can practice a wide variety of musical elements.
Progressive Drills
- The app features two main modes: Classic mode with over 150 progressive drills arranged across 4 levels and 28 chapters, and Easy mode with 50 progressive drills designed for beginners, spread over 12 chapters. This structured approach ensures that users progress systematically and master each concept before moving on to the next.
Customization
- Users have the flexibility to create and save their own custom drills, allowing them to focus on specific areas they need to improve. Additionally, teachers can create full custom training programs for their students, add drills weekly, and track their students’ scores on private leaderboards.
Arcade Mode
- For a more engaging experience, the app includes an Arcade mode where users can play a selection of 21 drills in a gamified environment.
Sound Quality
- The app boasts unparalleled sound quality with 5 octaves of actual recorded grand piano sounds, along with 7 additional sound banks featuring vintage piano, Rhodes piano, electric guitar, harpsichord, concert harp, strings, and pizzicato strings.
Theory Integration
- Each chapter includes theory cards that introduce the necessary concepts, eliminating the need to read music on a staff. This makes the app accessible to musicians who may not have prior music notation skills.
Gamification and Motivation
- The app is designed like a video game, where users earn stars and unlock achievements. There are 25 achievements to unlock, and users can compete on worldwide leaderboards to see how they rank against other musicians. The goal is to earn 3 stars in each drill to unlock the next chapter, with the option to achieve perfect 5-star scores.
Statistics and Progress Tracking
- The app provides global statistics to track progress, ensuring users can monitor their improvement over time. Cloud sync is also available, allowing users to access their progress across various devices.
User Interface
- The app features a nice and clean material design user interface with two display themes: light and dark. This ensures a pleasant and non-distracting learning environment.
Availability
The Complete Ear Trainer is available on multiple platforms, including Google Play, Apple App Store, Huawei AppGallery, and Amazon App Store. It is also accessible on desktop computers as part of the Complete Music Trainer software, which includes the Complete Ear Trainer, Complete Rhythm Trainer, and Complete Music Reading Trainer apps.
Pricing
Users can download the app and try out the first chapter of each mode for free. A one-time in-app purchase of $4.99 (or 4.99€) unlocks the full version of the app on all devices.