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Better Ear is a Windows program that develops your musical abilities.



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It teaches you how to both recognize and sing notes.  You will learn to follow melodies and chord progressions by ear, instantly, without reading musical notation, no matter how inexperienced or experienced your musical abilities are.

Starting with simple lessons, Better Ear gradually and automatically adds more difficult levels only after you have mastered easy levels.

If you can't do these --

  • instinctively identify the notes in your favorite songs' melodies
  • hear that a song's chord progression is 4-5-1 or 2-5-6
  • distinguish a major chord from a minor chord or a perfect 4th from a perfect 5th
  • match a tone with your voice or sing an interval or melody
  • know the degrees of the major and minor scales
  • or generally, play by ear any song you hear, without sheet music

-- then you need a Better Ear!

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The exercises begin simple enough for someone with no musical experience.  If you already have some musical abilities, you will quickly pass the early levels and find yourself in the advanced lessons.  You don't need to guess what to practice -- Better Ear knows for you.

  • Start with easy exercises and Better Ear will automatically guide you to more advanced levels -- more than 400 exercises with increasing difficulty
  • Learn the simple fixed-DO solfege method to hear & sing music
  • Sing or play your instrument into a microphone, and see how close you are to the pitch
  • Better Ear accepts MIDI input, microphone input, typing, and on-screen clicking for answers
  • Simple to use, fast to learn, streamlined for practical use
  • Learn relative pitch by beginning with diatonic C major and C minor scale degrees, then finishing with chromatic (all) degrees
  • Master single tones and two-note harmonic & melodic intervals inside the scale
  • Training with David Lucas Burge's perfect pitch course?  Accelerate your perfect pitch abilities effortlessly by learning to not confuse different scale degrees.  (BetterEar is not affiliated with David Lucas Burge.)
  • All musicians, all levels, all instruments can benefit from Better Ear's curriculum

For best results, you must have a microphone.

Send questions to help@BetterEar.com

Download your free trial here!

 


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