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Ear For Life, Ear training app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 5472 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: Mathias Navne
Free
Current version: 2.42, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 11 Mar 2010
App size: 75.17 Mb

Unlock the music you always wanted to play or sing by studying perfect and relative pith. Having Perfect pitch means the ability to recognize what note is playing. Relative pitch means beeing able to recognize chords and the tension between two notes. Perfect and relative pitch is nothing that you are born with, it can be trained.

This application contains samples of clean electric guitar (Gibson Lucille, Les Paul) and piano and includes single notes, melody, intervals, chords, arpeggios and scales. All chords comes in 4 variations, intervals in 5 and single note in 4 variations. Arpeggios and Scales have 3 variations and are currently only available with piano.


When I was a kid, I remember spending over 60 USD on tapes that just explained the theory on how to aquire perfect pitch alone, without any practicing help. This applications will do just the opposite, helping you practice your perfect pitch and relative pitch. All for a fraction of standard help courses.

Here you will be quizzed on the current set of notes (or intervals or chords) that you have selected. The success rate for the specific test will be shown as well as the success rate for the whole session.


The full version covers the following sets:
* Full range notes, 4 octaves
* Full range intervals, 5 variations
* 25+ scales, 3 variations
* 35+ chords and arpeggios (4 and 3 variations)
* Melody full range notes and jumps

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Best experienced using head phones.
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If you are in to guitar improvisation, why not check out my application Guitar For Life, available for free on the AppStore as Full version.


For a full FAQ and application explanation, please visit the web page

Pros and cons of Ear For Life, Ear training app for iPhone and iPad

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Good App. But no diminished Chord available (i.e. Cmb5 or cdim)!!!! PLEASE UPDATE THE CHORD SECTION !!! Just Integrate a pure diminished Triad!!!! 1 b3 b5 Thank you :)
Hi there, I like your app very much because it is challenging me more than other comparable apps. But there is something bothering me a lot: lets say i want to test my chord skills with all possible chord options turned on. When i let the piano play the arpeggio it plays for example a maj7 chord in c. If i then switch to chord mode, it plays the same chord in another key. No problem with a maj7 but a huge problem with something more tricky like a 11/13... It just changes the key and this is very confusing to me. Other than that it is a beautiful app! It would be nice of you if you could fix that issue anyway.
This is the perfect supplement to the David Lucas Burge ear training cds. I used to sit tied to my keyboard for hours. Wish Id had this then so I couldve taken it with me and done my ear training in the park or coffee shop. It has all the options you could want for perfect/relative pitch ear training. A few places for improvement... - dont understand the green and red rating things. What do they mean? good, bad. I cant tell. - would love to be able to switch to a regular piano sound but I know thatd be a big addition - would love the ability to hear intervals down, not just up, and then randomly switch up/down - wish I could play the sample again anytime rather than having to wait till its faded out first - of course, stats tracking would be great Other than that, this app is wonderful and Im so happy to find something like it. Ill be spending hours with it doing the lessons from the perfect/relative pitch supercourse. No more closing my eyes and pretending I cant feel which key Ive hit. Thanks for making this.
Really great ear trainer! The only reason why I havent rated it 5/5 star is because, when in the chord mode, it doesnt show you the pitch of the chord it played after you answered it. (please, add this function, it would make this app the perfect guitar trainer!). The lack of loop playback is also a little annoying, but the overall is really great! Thanks!
Im really impressed so far. Ive tried a lot of ear training apps and this ones the best so far. Lots of options and intuitive, easy to use interface. I also like that it updates you percentages with each answer so you can keep track and try to improve your results. Very nice app. I highly recommend.
Absolutely amazing. Versatile and thorough. Worth every cent. I just have one request, in the chords section the piano chords are always really low, it doesnt change to mid and high registers, please fix that.

Some bad moments

Hi it seems that this app does not work with iOS 10. Will developper will fix it ? Thanks.
When compared to other apps, this falls well short of user friendliness and intuitiveness. Limited options for settings.
Started the app and there was no sound for anything. Useless.
I was training for perfect pitch. And I heard the app played an F2 so I pressed on F2 for the answer. But the app said that I was wrong and indicated that the correct answer was E2. I thought it was weird. I went to the piano and checked. I was right! The app labeled the pitch incorrectly. All the notes in the lower range shifted up or down a half step! I emailed the developer and have not heard anything from them. This app was sold to help people train for perfect pitch. Not only that it does not help but it confuse and distort your perception and destroys the skills you have. I want my money back!!!!!!

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