Helpful Ear Training Websites, Apps, and Resources

Here are some of the software, websites, and additional resources that are helpful in
practicing ear training, musicianship, and basic theory skills.

NOTES:
Please check these links carefully and download programs and files at your own
risk. Sometimes formerly safe downloads can carry malware, adware, tracking
software, etc.
Please let us know if you find any problems, defunct links, or have suggestions to
add: eartraining@berklee.edu

Ear Training Software

EarMaster: versatile ear training and sight-singing program; available to Berklee
Ear Training students for download and use on your laptop; includes many of the
functions duplicated by sites and programs below; available on the computers at
the Learning Center (Berklee Library 2nd floor).
Auralia: comprehensive software for ear training and aural tests; available on the
computers at the Learning Center (Berklee Library 2nd floor).
Practica Musica: a personal music tutor; available on the computers at the
Learning Center (Berklee Library 2nd floor).
MacGamut: another ear training program used at other schools; provides flexible,
graded ear training and fundamentals.

Ear Training Websites

Ear Training on the Run: .mp3 audio lessons you can use without internet
access, created by one of our Berklee faculty colleagues, for interval and triad
recognition practice.
musictheory.net: a collection of free web-based exercises for staff identification,
keyboard identification, fretboard identification, and ear training.
teoria.com: free, web-based ear training and music theory exercises addressing
melody, harmony, and rhythm, as well as jazz extended chords and progressions.
good-ear.com: free, web-based ear training exercises including intervals, chords,
scales, cadences, and jazz chords; choice of multiple instruments.

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 The Musical Mind: free, web-based ear training exercises with 1-note, 3-note,
and long melodies, as well as melodic and harmonic intervals and atonal trichords.
EarBeater Classic: free, web-based ear training exercises focusing on intervals,
scales, chords, and chord inversions.
trainear.com: free, web-based ear training exercises offering detailed statistics to
target any set of intervals and a songs editor with multiple examples for ascending
and descending intervals.
Metronome Online: Free online metronome.
Piano: Musictheory.nets online keyboard activated by mouse; includes ability to
mark or highlight keys.
Virtual Keyboard: Online keyboard activated by mouse or computer keyboard;
includes ability to choose one of nine instruments, play with drum beats, and play
chords.
MidiKey: Downloadable $3 Mac keyboard application that doesn't require internet;
includes 128 instruments; able to receive MIDI input and send MIDI output.
Vocal Match: Interactive vocal pitch-matching web app, plus more ear training
games.
How to Teach Someone to Match Pitch: Online article detailing five main
principles for teaching someone (including yourself) to match pitch.
Solfege and Diction: Horizontal chromatic movable-do solfege tone ladder from
American Choral Directors Association.
Musicards: Online music theory flash cards.

Ear Training Smartphone Apps

Here is a short list of some iPhone ear training-related apps our faculty and students
have found useful (or fun).
Ultimate Ear Training: identify one or more pitches in relation to a key
ClearTune: chromatic tuner and pitch reference
Tempo: a metronome by Frozen Ape
FingerLite Piano: one of several piano apps
Pitch Pipe: an old-fashioned virtual choral pitch pipe, for a reference starting pitch
MiniSynth: fun virtual mock-analog synthesizer
Sruti Box: Indian drone accompaniment, good for practicing singing notes in tune

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 Droneo: similar versatile drone accompaniment program
Ear Trainer: variety of ear training practice exercises
Sight Reading! for iPhone: sight reading training
Rhythm Trainer: sight reading training with immediate accuracy feedback and
many advanced features

Vocal Training Tools and Books

Roland Vocal Trainer: an illuminated pitch meter that offers real-time analysis of
your pitch to improve your singing; includes some of the lessons from the following
singing books loaded on the device.
The Contemporary Singer (2nd Edition): Elements of Vocal Technique: by
Anne Peckham, chair of Berklees Voice Department; a very good basic singing
book providing an introduction to the voice and singing, plus basic warm-ups and
lessons; includes practice CD with tracks you can add to your iPod or phone, or
use to warm up anywhere.
Vocal Workouts for the Contemporary Singer: by Anne Peckham, chair of
Berklees Voice Department; a more complete warm-up and lessons for all voice
types, without quite as much basic singing background informationsingers with
some experience and prior lessons might prefer this; includes practice CD with
tracks you can add to your iPod or phone, or use to warm up anywhere.

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