Today's app is the Better Ears app:
Better Ears (http://www.better-ears.com/en/better-ears-ipad.html) Formerly known as Karajan - Music and Ear Trainer; educational music and ear training app; helps user grow their musical skills and enhance hearing capabilities; for beginners and music-masters; decide own training routine, when to start, and how often to practice; includes ten different exercises: Interval Recognition, Scale Recognition, Chord Recognition, Chord Progressions, Pitch Recognition, Tempo Recognition, Key Signature Recognition, Interval Music Reading, Scale Music Reading, and Chord Music Reading; choose training sound from six different instruments including Acoustic Grand Piano, Bright Acoustic Piano, Electric Grand Piano, Drawbar Organ, Nylon Acoustic Guitar, and Steel Acoustic Guitar; comes with a virtual keyboard and virtual guitar fretboard; four preset levels include Beginner, Easy, Normal, and Professional; unlimited custom levels; keep Mac and iOS devices in sync; supports routing sound through an external MIDI device to use existing MIDI master keyboard or sound module; includes statistics; shows the relevant Wikipedia article for the current exercise; (iOS 5.0 or later; Android 4.0 and up).
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Today's app is the goodEar Chords - Ear Training app:
goodEar Chords – Ear Training (http://www.calypso-score.com/goodear.html) For beginners to professional musicians; includes all possible triads and inversions, all possible four-note-chords, and twenty different extended/altered chords; create own exercises; play the exercises on piano or give the answer with multiple-choice; watch progress in statistics; (iOS 6.1 or later). Today's app is the goodEar Scales - Ear Training app:
goodEar Scales – Ear Training (http://www.calypso-score.com/goodear.html) Ear training for beginners to professional musicians; thirty-eight scales including ionian scales, harmonic-minor scales, melodic-minor scales, five Pentatonic scales, five Hexatonic scales, and seven Octatonic scales; play scales ascending or descending; create own exercises; play the exercises on piano or give the answer with multiple-choice; watch progress in statistics; (iOS 6.1 or later). This week's apps will feature apps for ear training and aural skills:
goodEar Intervals – Ear Training (http://www.calypso-score.com/goodear.html) Ear training for beginners to professional musicians; choose from all intervals between two octaves and play them ascending, descending, or simultaneously; activate “backing chord” to hear the interval in harmonic context; create own exercises; play the exercises on piano or give the answer with multiple-choice; watch progress in statistics; (iOS 6.1 or later). Today's app is the Perfect Pitch Piano - Ear Trainer app:
Perfect Pitch Piano – Ear Trainer (http://perfectpitchpianoapp.com) Ear trainer game like Simon Says; plays a melody and user plays it back by ear; teaches user to play piano by ear in a fun and intuitive way; improve ear using the piano; skills will transfer to guitar, singing, drums, etc.; learn to play popular melodies including Mary Had a Little Lamb, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Happy Birthday, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, The Farmer in the Dell, The Wheels on the Bus, The Ants Go Marching, Camp Town Ladies, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause, Yankee Doodle, When the Saints Go Marching In, B-I-N-G-O, Hush Little Baby Don’t Say A Word, and over thirty more songs available to purchase, including famous classical music from Beethoven and Bach; includes major scales, minor scales, pentatonic, and blues scales; popular folk songs and anthems; beginner, intermediate, and advanced blues riffs; for all levels; over 200 individual melodies to master with practice; control melody difficulty, tempo, and pitch; includes scales, intervals, rhythm, theory, pitch, dictation, and more; (iOS 5.0 or later). Today's app is the Music for Little Mozarts app:
Music for Little Mozarts (http://www.musicforlittlemozarts.com/) Developed for the preschool age group; games provide a balance between learning key aspects of the piano and the enjoyment of making music; learn with Beethoven Bear and Mozart Mouse; (iOS 3.2 or later). Today's app is the iLectric Piano app:
iLectric Piano (http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/ilectricipad/) Studio quality electric piano app; collection of forty professional sounding instruments for iPad including vintage electric piano and electronic keyboard instrument sounds; Audiobus support; (iOS 7.0 or later). Today's app is the My Piano app:
My Piano (http://trajkovski.net) Virtual piano for Android; studio quality sound; eleven instruments; seven sound effects; multi-touch; note velocity; note aftertouch; note pitch bend; integrated sampler; integrated recorder; sample recording; sample load and save; track load and save; MIDI load and save; MIDI over WiFi; MIDI note velocity; MIDI note aftertouch; MIDI volume control; MIDI pitch bend; one and a half or two octaves; tablet/pad support; hardware acceleration; looped playback; twelve note polyphony; sixteen piano skins; five key types; eight window themes; window animations; (Android 2.1 and up). Today's app is the Real Piano app:
Real Piano (http://realpianoapp.com) Produces authentic piano sound quality that was sampled from a real grand piano; also plays guitar, bass, harp, marimba, and music box; offers a set of audio effects, a variety of customizable key labels, professional tuning, and transposition functions; recording and sharing features; see notation in real time; touch pedal panel with foot; adjust settings in a separate screen; full eighty-eight key keyboard that user can slide and pinch to move and zoom; dynamic expression control; different keyboard layouts and customizable key labels: C-D-E, 1-2-3, or do-re-mi; audio effects support; professional tuning and transposition; record and share to Facebook, SoundCloud, or with Email or iTunes; Game Center achievement support; connects with the Real Piano Remote app; (iOS 6.1 or later). Today's app is the Pianist Pro app:
Pianist Pro (http://moocowmusic.com/PianistPro/index.html) Photo-realistic graphics; full recording and overdub facility; live MIDI control of external synths via CoreMIDI USB, MIDI Mobilizer interface, Network MIDI, OSC, or DSMI; standard MIDI file import and export; Audio (WAV) file export; sixteen professionally recorded instruments (pianos, organs, guitars, synths); built-in effects, arpeggiator, and drum machine; Soft and Sustain pedals; velocity based on key strike position; full eighty-eight key single or dual keyboard layout with configurable key size; onscreen pitch bend, modulation, and swell pedal controls; Vibrato and Low-Pass Filter; full MIDI import and export capability, allowing user to record song ideas and export them via MIDI to a Digital Audio Workstation; can use as a master MIDI keyboard, either with USB, the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer interface, or via WiFi; drive soft or hard synths wirelessly; can be used as a MIDI sound source, driven by an external hardware keyboard; built-in arpeggiator allows user to create perfectly timed runs by holding down a few keys; complex patterns of notes and chords can be programmed into the arpeggiator and played back live; play shuffle-beat blues piano with walking bassline and overlayed jazz chords by holding down a single chord; changing the chord changes the melody but maintains the tight rhythm provided by the arpeggiator; drum machine with a simple interface for adding rhythm; choice of drum kits; delay effect can be used to bring energy and interest to a synth bassline, or a guitar or piano riff; ‘Scale Piano’ interface allows user to select a musical scale from a large choice of presets (eg. Natural Minor or Pentatonic Blues) or define own scales from scratch; notes and runs on a scale can be played back in any key by sliding a finger up and down a virtual touch-pad on-screen; for musicians of all levels; website has demonstration videos, a full description of functionality including the user manual, more screenshots, and a support link; (iOS 4.2 or later). |
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