There are also some buttons to access the settings of the metronome's tempo, the mic and MIDI inputs and the zoom level of the main screen. Apart from the standard menu bar, to which I'll come back later on, you get your results displayed with a brief statistical report. First of all there are several toolbars, which you can choose to have them displayed or not and you can place them wherever you want, at the top or the bottom of the screen and some of them even on the sides. The Main Screen is divided into several parts. You can't add your own songs, though, which is a real pity, but no deal-breaker. You can find links to the songs in question on the Earmaster ApS webpage, and you can also create your own lists of reference melodies from a predefined group of songs for each interval.
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When it comes to intervals recognition, the software will also suggest a list of famous songs whose first notes include the intervals to be identified. You'll get an audiovisual example of what's expected of you. (As a side note, some of them include typos, so a review by the developers wouldn't hurt. Once you've selected an activity, a screen tells you about the nature of the exercise that you are about to begin. Definitely not a matter of life and death, but annoying in the long run. You have to first select them and then click on the "Start" button at the bottom of the window. For some unknown reason, it's impossible to launch the activities by simply double clicking on them. It's up to you to decide the activity you want to focus on. They include interval comparison, recognition and singing, chord identification (including inversions), identification of harmonic progressions, reading and reproduction of rhythms, detection of rhythmic mistakes, sight reading and singing, melodic imitation and melodic dictation (yes, the software makes a distinction between the two of them, and I'll tell you why later on). The activities appear in a second window on the main screen. But let me go back to the activities I was talking about. To that end you'll have to get the "Teacher" version of the software, which costs an extra €10 and we'll discuss at the end of the review. Regarding the "customized exercise," it allows you to configure at will the different activities the software provides but not to organize them in courses, in other words, you can't follow a pedagogic progression with these activities. In fact, it doesn't cover everything related to interval and scale recognition, but rather focuses on chords and harmonic progressions that are more or less specific to jazz, as well as on rhythmic exercises. The main screen of the software, which loads in no time, offers two types of training: a standard course and a jazz course, as well as the possibility to access a "customized exercise." To be more precise, the "standard" course offers an all-round musical training, while the "jazz" course is a sort of complement to the first. The software aims to make out of you a tenacious weapon of musical deciphering and not only through your ears, but also visually with several exercises dedicated to improving your reading skills.
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It also makes a pocket tuner, Pitchboy, and offers several services online, most notably a free music theory course as well as a free money management tool for bands called BandLoot.īut let's go back to EarMaster, now in its sixth version.
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