OpenEar – ear training app for musicians

OpenEar is an ear training app for musicians. It provides flexible exercises designed to improve melodic and harmonic recognition.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Scale degree and melodic recognition for any mode or scale, including chromatic notes.
• Fully customizable scale degree and melodic recognition exercises.
• Recognition of chord functions using Roman numeral analysis.
• Supports major, minor, and diminished triads in every mode or scale.
• Practice identifying common chord progressions.
• Exercises based on chord progressions from real songs.
• Notes with Chords exercise for recognizing scale and chord degrees simultaneously.
• Recognition of major and minor chord types in a diatonic context.
• Interval recognition exercises.
• Generates sounds using Tone.js.

Website: github.com/ShacharHarshuv/open-ear
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Developer: Shachar Har-Shuv
License: MIT License

OpenEar is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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