TOP 3 EAR TRAINING / SIGHT-READING APPS! Tried, Tested & Highly Recommended!

"Music is an audiovisual art. One can only truly enjoy deeper meanings behind the music if your eyes and ears have been properly trained to recognize the many various elements of its rich tapestry." - Sharon O. Jusay

Here is our list of the Top 3 Most Useful FREE Apps (tried & tested) to improve your listening and sight-reading skills!

Simply click on the activated links for each app below, install and you're ready to start honing your listening skills! Enjoy! :)

Do you know of other great music apps? Feel free to suggest and leave comments. We'd love to hear from you! 

1. myEar

myEar

Improve your aural skills and be more confident in improvising.

Learn to identify intervals, chords, scales, random melodies and chord progressions.
Create custom exercises (one for each training type in Free version). Challenge yourself with our exercises of the day.

Input answers using buttons or piano keyboard. So you can train your ear and piano keyboard orientation at the same time.

Use the statistics reports to see your strengths and weaknesses.

Ear trainer for musicians who want to improve their relative pitch recognition abilities and get one step further towards perfect pitch.

2. Note Trainer Lite

** FREE lite version of Note Trainer - make learning music notes fun! ***

Move away from rote memorization techniques and learn how to read music notes in a natural and engaging way. Note trainer lite is a fun sight-reading game that teaches you to recognize music notes. The game increases in speed and difficulty over time so that you can truly learn to sight-read music notes effortlessly.

Note Trainer Lite

Note trainer replaces traditional flash cards and was developed in collaboration with a distinguished award-winning member of the North American Music Teachers Association and in consultation with a touring member of the Canadian National Youth Orchestra and soloist for the Hamilton Symphony.

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What's in Note Trainer Lite?
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* Great for those just learning to read music as well as those challenging themselves to increase the speed at which they can read music notes
* Practice mode (option to turn on or off note labels and labels on piano as you learn to read notes)
* Game mode to challenge your skills at an increasing difficulty level
* Treble clef and Bass clef modes (upgrade for sharps & flats)
* Track your scores and see when you’ve exceeded your personal best
* Achievements and badges to measure progress
* Full statistics to show where you are making mistakes and note reading accuracy

3. Pitch Improver Lite

Pitch Improver Lite

Pitch improver is a set of exercises that will help you learn to play by ear.

The ear training excercises are the same as at http://pitchimprover.com optimized for Android devices.
In every excercise you will start with the easiest tasks which will get more complex as your ear improves.
Pitchimprover is designed to work on your weak sides. If you mix up two chords or intervals, the program will drill you with these particular types.

Ear training excercises:
-Repeating melodies (20 levels)
-Intervals recognition (11 levels)
-Perfect pitch (11 levels)
-Chord types (12 levels)
-Chord progressions (16 levels)

The keyboard is optimized for mobile layout, you won't miss the black keys even with small screen and big fingers.

We will update this list when we find some more great apps! 

- NeoClassic Music School Team