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Ear Training Products

Functional Ear Trainer is a critically acclaimed ear training suite containing two programs:

Functional Ear Trainer - Basic
Functional Ear Trainer - Advanced

Both programs are different from the traditional ear training programs where you typically have to guess intervals, scales, chords, and rhythms.
Functional Ear Trainer presents an original and very effective way to learn to recognize notes in the context of a key.
This is a proven method that, with a little bit of effort, really works.

Functional Ear Trainer Basic and Advanced are FREEWARE.
If you want to support me, consider making a donation.

Functional Ear Trainer is only available as a Microsoft Windows executable. It will NOT run on Mac.
However, it runs fine on Linux using Wine. More info...

Functional Ear Trainer - Basic
<click image to enlarge>	Principle The program establishes the key or tonality by playing a chord sequence, followed by a random note. The user has to guess what note was played. How? Every note has its own function within the key and wants to resolve to the nearest tonic. The help page describes a method to learn to hear this resolution to the nearest tonic, and so know which note was played.
System Requirements - Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP - Minimum 64MB of RAM - Minimum 10MB free disk space - Soundcard or MIDI device License FREEWARE Current Version Version 1.2 - 27 January 2008	User Comments "Great program, it helps me a lot for my hearing test at school!!! Thx man !" read more... Independent Review Functional Ear Trainer got the rating 5 out of 5 from the e-magazine Cyberfret. read more...
Download Now right-click and select Save Target As... (approx. 1.2 MB)

Functional Ear Trainer - Advanced
<click image to enlarge>	Principle Based on the enormous success of Functional Ear Trainer - Basic, the idea was expanded by playing two notes after the key or tonality has been established. The user has to answer 3 questions: 1) What was the first note? 2) What was the second note? 3) What is the interval both notes form? The missing link between interval training and note-in-key ear training! How? Try to hear how the two notes resolve to the nearest tonic using the method you learned in Functional Ear Trainer - Basic. Then determine the interval between the two notes. HARDER THAN YOU THINK!
System Requirements - Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP - Minimum 64MB of RAM - Minimum 10MB free disk space - Soundcard or MIDI device License FREEWARE Current Version Version 1.0 - 27 January 2008	Options The two notes can be played one after the other (melodically) or simultaneously (harmonically). Many settings possible.
Download Now right-click and select Save Target As... (approx. 1.7 MB)

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