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

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