05-10-2021

Free Ear Training Software Mac

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In this article, you'll learn about FREE software programs to help you with ear training: developing your musical sense of pitch.

Ear Trainer Lite is an educational tool designed for musicians, music students and anyone interested in improving ones musical ear. It has exercises covering intervals, chords, and scales. This is the LITE version with 32 exercises. The full version has over 260 exercises and the ability to create custom exercises. ChordPhobia 1.3 allows you to learn how and monitor your accuracy in recognizing chord qualities instantly when you hear them. It is a ear training software. The software will play a chord, and then you choose your answer from 4 of the choices.


  1. Download Ear Training 101 7.0.19 from our software library for free. Ear Training 101 belongs to Education Tools. The following versions: 7.0 and 4.0 are the most frequently downloaded ones by the program users. This download was checked by our built-in antivirus and was rated as safe. The actual developer of the software is David Sprunger.
  2. Ear training software. Mac: Demo: 2008-12-10: 0: 50db: Red Sweater Clarion: Practice and be quizzed on your ability to recognize musical intervals. Mac: Shareware: 0: 50db: Dolce Ear Training 1.4: Ear training tool for first year music students. Mac: Shareware: 2005-03-13: 0: 50db: Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro.
  3. Reel Space Irish Music School is now making it’s custom ear training software, Reel Ear, available to the general public. To celebrate the launching of the world’s best ear training software, we are giving away FREE copies of Reel Ear to anyone playing Irish music (a $39.95 value) from right now until May 7th, 2010 at 12:00am (eastern standard time in the USA).
Ear training gives you a map to clarify and simplify where you are and where you're going. And it's a great skill to develop, even a little bit.
You can use ear training in almost every area of music:

  • Arranging
  • Composing
  • Songwriting
  • Transcribing
  • Sight-singing

There are two pieces of FREE software that I highly recommend you download:

  1. Pitch Coach: http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/PitchCoachOSX/
  2. Functional Ear Trainer: http://www.miles.be/fet.html#fetbasic

Pitch Coach works on Mac computers.
Functional Ear Trainer only works with Windows.
Quick Start to Ear Training
Get used to singing DO-RE-MI-FA-SO-LA-TI-DO:

  • Start by singing the familiar syllables: DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA-TI-DO.
  • Load the Pitch Coach software on your computer.
  • Throughout the day, from time to time, use it to listen to the pitches of those syllables as you sing them. Play a pitch, then try to match it as closely as you can.

Although there are many methods of ear training, here is a quick way to start: split your practice into the first 4 syllables (DO-RE-MI-FA) and last 4 syllables (SOL-LA-TI-DO).
The first four syllables tend to move DOWNWARD (resolve) from FA down to DO. So it will feel more natural to practice singing them backward: FA-MI-RE-DO.
The second four syllables tend to move UPWARD (resolve) from SOL up to the upper DO. So it will feel more natural to practice singing them upward: SOL-LA-TI-DO.
Using Pitch Coach
When you first start Pitch Coach, select '7 tones' and '2 octaves.' Your screen will look similar to the image below:
Use your mouse to click on 'F' (FA), then down to 'E' (MI), then down to 'D' (RE), then down to 'C' (DO). Sing FA-MI-RE-DO as you do that. If you practice for several days in a row, just a few minutes at a time, your ear will get familiar with those tones and syllables. And eventually you will be able to sing FA down to DO without the intervening notes.
Use the same Coach Pitch keyboard with your mouse to practice SOL up to DO (SOL-LA-TI-DO).
Using Functional Ear Trainer
You can use Functional Ear Trainer to further test yourself on the first four syllables:
On the top menu, click on VIEW.

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  • Select SOLFEGGIO SYLLABLES (MOVEABLE DO).
  • On the left (Note Choices), choose F, E, D, C.
  • Press START.
  • Click on the correct tone you hear.
    To test yourself on the second set of four syllables, choose G, A, B, C and follow the same procedures.
    More Exercises
    The two exercises in this article are deceptively simple. But if you try them, for just a few minutes at a time, for a couple weeks, you'll begin to have a different relationship with music. After these two exercises, you can expand your learning with the exercises in related article http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art50040.asp.
    Good Listening!
    Allan Harris
    BellaOnline's Musician Editor