Complete Ear Trainer
July 24, 2024
More About Complete Ear Trainer
Features
• 150+ progressive drills arranged over 4 levels / 28 chapters
• 11 drill types, 24 intervals, 36 chord types, chord inversions, 28 scale types, melodic dictations, chord progressions
• Easy mode: 50+ progressive drills arranged over 12 chapters especially designed for beginners
• Play a selection of 21 drills in arcade mode
• 5 octaves of actual recorded grand piano sounds
• 7 additional sound banks are available, all with actual recorded sounds: vintage piano, Rhodes piano, electric guitar, harpsichord, concert harp, strings and pizzicato strings
• In each chapter, a theory card will introduce you to the concepts you will need to know
• No need to know how to read music on a staff
• Designed like a video game: earn 3 stars in each drill of a chapter to unlock the next one. Or will you be able to obtain perfect 5-star scores?
• Don't want to follow the preestablished path of progression? Create and save your own custom drills and rehearse them at your own convenience
• Create full custom training programs and invite friends or students to join them. If for example you're a teacher you can create custom programs for your students, add drills every week and view their scores on private leaderboards
• Never lose any progress: cloud sync across your various devices
• Google Play Games: 25 achievements to unlock
• Google Play Games: worldwide leaderboards (global, per level, per chapter, easy mode, arcade mode)
• Global statistics to track your progress
• Nice and clean material design user interface with 2 display themes: light and dark
• Designed by a musician and music teacher with a Royal Conservatory master's degree
Full Version
• Download the app and try out the first chapter of each mode for free
• One-time in-app purchase of $5.99 to unlock the full version on all your Android devices
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Latest Version
2.6.5-175 (121175)
July 24, 2024
Binary Guilt Software
Game Music
Android
849,148
Free
com.binaryguilt.completeeartrainer
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User Reviews
Fraser Paterson
3 months ago
The visual representation could be better. On the note wheel representation, the whole and semi tones could be better pictorially represented by splitting the whole tones into 2 grey bars. It would make it much easier to read at speed, and make the gamification of the method more satisfying.
Stephen Gibbons
3 months ago
Nice app but frustrating. Not expensive, so mustn't grumble, but in 'easy mode' you very soon get on to distinguishing harmonic perfect 4ths and 5ths, which are inherently difficult, being mutual inversions, perfect intervals and only separated by one tone. With all the harmonics in the sound bank instruments it's tough getting the root and these right even with headphones. Others have raised the issue. Putting these later in the course progression would be sensible.
mongeese tomgeese (Thomas Haller)
4 years ago
It seems strange to include perfect fourths and fifths before Major and minor thirds (in the classic section), considering how much easier it is to tell thirds apart. All things considered, this app has already been immensely helpful, and seems like it will genuinely help one to achieve a good musical ear, with enough practice.
A Google user
5 years ago
I've never wrote a review for an app ever but this one deserves a few minutes. It's an amazing app that will sure make anyone a better musician if this is what you are looking for. Never having a formal musical training before, the app does not explain how you should get ready for the drills. I've been using my guitar to train my ears to intervals all over the fretboard but the richness and quantity of drills will guarantee to make you improve very quickly of you dedicate some time. Awesome app
A Google user
4 years ago
Really really good and comprehensive ear trainer, very very in depth, worth every penny to unlock the full version. They added buttons under the theory section where you can hear each interval and it works in such a way that it will always give you the nearest two intervals which is so insanely helpful!! I wish I could rate this 10 stars but alas there can be only 5. I cannot say enough good things about this app especially since this feature was added!!
Pranjit Raj
2 years ago
Conservatory trained musician here. Lots of content, but somewhat 'thrown together' without proper progression. Most progress comes from grinding exercises for 5 stars, not from evenly graded exercises that refine the ear over time. Maybe superior to similar apps if you like the options and interface, but the content itself is largely the same.
Liam Farley
2 years ago
Well made from an app standpoint. From a musical standpoint starting with thirds and not constraining to key is silly. Professional programs like ear trainer will always use intervals within a key as it's far more relevant to most students and easier to differentiate them. I would love to see an introductory chapter as such, to help people quickly develop a more amateur ear, and the refine it.
Michael Carpenter
3 years ago
I can't recommend these apps enough. The best apps for learning basic music theory by a huge margin. Complete Music Reading, Rhythm Trainer and Ear Trainer are by far my favorite apps. The basic apps are free but the full paid version (I think around $3.99 each) is worth every penny and then some. I have improved from being a somewhat talented but illiterate musician to one who can sight read and actually understand the music I'm playing in a couple months.
Nate Wheeler
2 years ago
pretty good as a classical ear training app. would love to see more exercises that stay in the same key for beginners instead of just jumping around to random intervals everywhere. much more relevant to actually figuring out a song and a harmony part. very difficult, i kind of wish they hadn't locked out levels until you got the ones before. I'm pretty ok at melodic intervals but terrible at harmonic.
A Google user
5 years ago
I have very high expectations for music and ear training apps because there is so much junk out there, but this app is truly a gem. Formost, it is extremely and reliably ACCURATE--NO misinformation whatsoever. Second, it looks, controls, and responds BEAUTIFULLY. Lessons are wonderfully paced--slow and steady. The scoring system is both fun and fair! And the scope of the exercises is unlike anything I've seen from a single app! For under $4 this app is a steal! Thank you so much for making this!
G
2 years ago
This app progresses too fast and ends up discouraging you. It doesnt really offer any helpful tips or provide song examples if youre having trouble. Not everyone has a good ear for intervals (me included) and some of us need to work up to them slower. I simply cant get past separating 4ths and 5th harmonic intervals, the very low and high frequency ones sound too similar to me. I've just given up, even on easy mode, gonna use a different app
Scott D.
4 years ago
Great game, really gets the gears turning and puts pressure on you, not just get your ears in tune, but also work on your theory and scales. Two complaints: Inversions should really be more advanced than the 6ths, 7ths, and aug/dim as inversions require you to hear three notes. Also, mod the next button so you don't have to swipe to the next question and risk messing up your answers. That's just one person's opinion. However, if you're wondering whether or not to get this game. Do it.
A Google user
4 years ago
Amazing app! My only minor problem is the sound banks. Most of them just arent at the quality of the default grand piano. Their tone might be muffled on one note and resonant on the other, or it may be too quiet to hear, or it might hold over the first note on an excersize thats intended to be melodic. Other than this, the app is primarily perfect.
A Google user
5 years ago
I want to love this app but I have a huge gripe with it. They make you do harmonic intervals before you've mastered melodic intervals ascending and descending first. Making it nearly impossible to recognize harmonic intervals (at least for me). This is like teaching multiplication before the student has mastered adding and subtracting. A major flaw if you ask me. I had to use another app because I could not move forward with this one. I had to give up on this app after months(yes months) of trying to progress through this app and I could not make it pass the P4/P5 harmonic drill In easy mode. Very disheartening!!!
Len S
1 year ago
This is certainly a slick piece of software, but it fails to offer the gentle on-ramp that a beginner needs. I'm in only the third out of the EASY MODE's twelve chapters and for quite some time I've been unable to make any progress, nor even any improvement whatsoever, beyond this point. The app offers no useful help. To paraphrase the app's "in case of difficulty" section, "Yeah, ear training can be tough, so don't forget to take breaks as you keep pounding away at it." Thanks a lot.
A Google user
5 years ago
Best, most complete and professional music training app on the app store. The interface is clean and straight to the point, without any unnecessary and intimidating features that may dissuade you from learning something as complex as music theory. I've had this app for a long time now, and it's an incredibly effective and fun way to train your ears while simultaneously learning music theory. I've just downloaded their new apps for rhythm and note training, and I have no complaints. Perfect.
A Google user
4 years ago
When I first used Complete Ear Trainer, I realized how useful the app is, and bought Complete Music Reading Trainer as well. Then, the device I was using broke, and it was a few months before I installed Complete Ear Trainer again. The very first time I used it in three months, I scored 100%. A great program, fun and definitely worth the investment. Each module builds on previous listening practices, so new skills continue to be utilized, while engaging with different tones. Complete Ear Trainer is a great way to develop yourself as a musician, and gain confidence when playing with others with no sheet music. Though I don't have perfect pitch, I was able to tune my guitar to fourths, after restringing it, without a tuner. I'm sure you will enjoy the application.
Michael Hardt
4 years ago
It's very good and worth the money. Finer gradation would be helpful for those of us with less natural talent. For example, I would be challenged to distinguish 4ths and 5ths across two or three root notes, instead of a whole octave of root notes. It would be nice if Binary's next app would adapt, i.e. see that I'm making no progress over many hours across many days, and then break the exercise into smaller chunks in response. Still, it's a very good product.
Anthony P.
4 years ago
I love the rhythm training app made by the same dev, but this one is much harder! I've been stuck on easy mode chapter 2 for a long time and it's very frustrating. The difficulty ramps up very fast. I tried another ear training app that uses the Alain Benbassat method -- it has been much easier to learn and has helped me tremendously. Please developer, look into this ear training method. If you could implement something similar in your app, that would be perfect! Your apps are top quality.
Joey Farley
4 months ago
This group of apps are flat out the best thing I have found for learning to hear intervals and read sheet music and rhythm notation. You need all 3 apps for real they are so fantastic that it will be hard to put them down. It is so much harder to learn ear training than you might think this app helps so much. I honestly rate it in the top of its class. I love the apps
