October 2010
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Absolute Pitch Online Ear Test
Pianist Brent Hugh developed an online ear test for developing absolute pitch (also known as perfect pitch). Test your absolute pitch abilities at home for free with this easy-to-use and easy-to-customize ear training web application.
Perfect Pitch Training and Research
Chris Aruffo has done extensive research concerning the possibility to acquire absolute pitch (also known as perfect pitch). His website contains pages upon pages of absolute pitch research, theories, and the phases of his journey for developing a method to acquire this skill. Do you have what it takes to acquire perfect pitch?
Hear Melodies
Listening to simple melodies are an effective way to develop a solid foundation for your ears. This online resource can be used for training your ears to hear simple melodies and basic chord progressions.
Play By Ear
Got an iPhone? If so, you can train your ears with this convenient ear training iPhone application!
Improvise Over Any Chord Progression
Imagine if your ears were good enough to improvise over any chord progression that you either heard before or never heard at all. Imagine how good it would feel to no longer have to memorize chord changes, and instead just hear and anticipate where the chord changes are going. This interactive website allows you to [...]
Hear Jazz Chord Progressions
Jazz musician John Elliott released a book that simplifies the way jazz chord progressions are heard and internalized. If you struggle with hearing and remembering the patterns of jazz chord progressions, the method in his book may provide some insight for understanding the chunks of chords that you are hearing. This method can easily be [...]
Slow Down Music
Do you want to slow down music so you can transcribe and analyze whats going on? Sometimes slowing down music makes it easier to hear the subtle details that make the music sound the way it does. This awareness opens your ear to hearing new possibilities. This is the fastest and easiest tool for slowing [...]
Master Your Ear
EarMaster is probably the most comprehensive interactive ear training software that’s available for both MAC and PC. Are you tired of having an inadequate set of ears? Master your ear’s ability to hear chords, scales, and intervals!
Measure Your Pitch Perception
Here’s another hearing test created by music and neuroimaging researcher Jake Mandell. This test is called the Adaptive Pitch Test and it measures your ability to hear highs and lows between two tones. This test measures your pitch perception abilities by adapting to your responses: The better you are, the closer and closer the stimuli [...]
How Tonedeaf Are You?
Music and neuroimaging researcher Jake Mandell created a unique Flash driven application that measures your level of tonedeafness by playing musical phrases back to back. Your goal is to listen to both musical phrases and determine if the two musical phrases are played the same or different. If you’ve struggled with ear training the past, [...]
