EarMaster Pro - Ear-Training Software

Item Description
Get a Musical Ear and improve your musicianship!
EarMaster Software can help you:

• Hear sheet music in your head.
• See music you hear with your inner eye and notate it.
• Sight-read and sight-sing with perfection.
• Improvise on your instrument - straight from your mind.
• Transcribe a tune when you hear it.
• Name tones and chords by ear.
• and much more...

System Requirements

This package contains both the Windows and Mac versions on the same disc.
You do not need to specify which operating system you have when ordering.

Works with any computer running Windows XP, Vista, Win7 or Mac OS 10.4 or better.

Comprehensive package of exercises
EarMaster Pro offers many ear training exercises covering Intervals, Chords, Scales, Melodies and Rhythms. All of exercises were developed by music teachers and other music professionals. The EarMaster Tutor will challenge you with hundreds of lessons and in the Exercise Setup you can configure your own lessons exactly as you want. Set up the exercises for your own ability level, from beginner to advanced. See the descriptions and screenshots below.

Highly interactive
EarMaster gives instant visual and audio feedback on everything you are doing. All of your results are recorded in detail so you can monitor your progress. You can interact with EarMaster using the onscreen piano, guitar, staff and multiple choice. With a microphone you can sing, clap or even play your answers on your favorite instrument. EarMaster also supports MIDI keyboards (optional).

Intervals
Once you get the hang of intervals, it will be easier to transcribe songs and compose songs. It will help you figure out the melody of a song based on the intervals. EarMaster has two exercises that will help you with just that:

Interval identification
EarMaster plays an harmonic or melodic interval, you identify it by its name or transcribe the tones on either the piano, guitar or the notesheet.

Interval comparison
EarMaster plays two intervals, you identify which one is the greater.

Chords
Knowing chords and harmonies is another important part of song transcription and composition or if you improvise or play by ear. You'll learn to hear and feel the quality of chords and their function within a given key. EarMaster has three types of chord exercises:

Chord identification and Chord-inversion identification
EarMaster plays a harmonic or melodic chord, you identify it by its name or transcribe the tones on the piano, guitar or the note sheet.

Chord progression identification
EarMaster plays a chord progression (like II mi7 - V 7 - I maj), you identify it by its name or choose the step and quality for each chord.

Scales and Modes
A scale is the tonal basis of music i.e. a set of tones from which you build melodies and harmonies. With EarMaster you will learn to identify scales (like major, minor, blues, bebop, etc) and church modes (like dorian, phrygian, etc):

Scale identification
EarMaster plays a scale or mode, you identify it by its name or transcribe the tones on either the piano, guitar or the note sheet.

Rhythms
The demands for a musicians rhythmic abilities are increasing in modern music. A fine sense of rhythmic variations, the ability to feel a tempo and keeping it are important for any musician. It is not enough to be able to read or hear individual note values, you must identify a rhythm as a series of rhythm patterns. EarMaster has three exercises that will teach you to read and hear rhythms:

Rhythm reading
EarMaster shows a rhythm score. You clap the rhythm following the metronome. Clap in your hands in front of the microphone, tap the rhythm on the space bar or play it on your MIDI instrument.

Rhythm imitation
EarMaster plays a rhythm. You clap the rhythm following the metronome. Clap in your hands in front of the microphone, tap the rhythm on the space bar or play it on your MIDI instrument.

Rhythm correction
EarMaster shows a rhythm score and plays the same rhythm with a few changes. You identify what changes were made.

Melodies
Can you transcribe a tune when you hear it? EarMaster has several exercises to help you transribe melodies!

Melodic Dictation
EarMaster plays a melodic phrase. You transcribe it on the staff, on the guitar or on the piano. Step by step your pitch will improve.