Ear Training Software

If you are a musician, you would have known that having a good ear for listening to music is of the utmost importance. Have good ear training skills will enable you to improvise a musical piece, identify the key of the music being played and also help you in composing your own songs. Very often, amateur musicians get stuck or hit a plateau in their musical progress. No matter how much they practice, they simply cannot take their musicianship to the next level.

The most common problem boils down to the root of the ear’s ability to hear and identify music. Playing a musical instrument requires both physical (technical aspects, finesse of the fingers) as well as mental (ear training) attributes in order for a musician to attain a mastery of the instrument. Very often, a musician is off balanced in terms of his training because the ear training aspect of his education is often neglected.

So how does one learn good aural skills? Ear training softwares to help musicians learn relative pitch and identify intervals have been appearing all over the internet in recent years. Some examples of simple aural skills softwares can be found at good-ear.com and solfege.org .  These websites offer musicians to learn ear training through the use of a computer program. However, do take note that some of these programs only touch on the very basics of improving the relative pitch ability of a musician. There is really a limit on the depth of ear exercises that these softwares can provide.

If you are looking for a complete all rounder education, I would suggest you take a look at David Lucas Burge’s Relative Pitch Supercourse. The Relative Pitch Supercourse is a step by step guide to learning aural skills and is available in the form of physical CDs. On top of that, the detailed workbook will aid anyone who is learning relative pitch greatly.