RelativePitch in the iPhone App Directory
NewsOur interval training app for iPhone, RelativePitch recently got a great review in the iPhone App Directory:
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The iPhone App Directory is published regularly by Imagine Publishing in the United Kingdom.
The iPhone App Directory Vol. 5 is your guide to the best App store applications for iPhone and iPod Touch. It covers 988 apps and games, with every App Store category covered in-depth by the makers of iCreate.
Here’s what they had to say about the app:
Don’t know a perfect fifth from a minor third? Help is at hand
If the only musical interval you’re aware of is the one in the middle of Les Misérables, maybe you could use this app. RelativePitch seeks to improve your pitch perception by testing your ability to identify the intervals between a randomly generated series of piano notes. It’s a bit like having the guy who comes round to tune your piano give you a multiple-choice test. Two notes will sound and a selection of possible answers appears on the screen. Simply tap the right answer to proceed.
Most tests have 20 questions, and a perfect score unlocks the next difficulty level and the next lesson, introducing a new type of interval to practise with. You start out simply with unisons and whole tones and progress through the app until all the intervals in an octave are combined into a single tricky test. Helpful hints and narrative soundbites abound, although the interface is a bit plain. A beginners’ mode with fewer questions per test might help to lengthen its appeal, but overall this is a well thought-out, educational and informative app.
Overall Rating: 4 stars out of 5
If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch and haven’t tried RelativePitch yet, it’s a great way to do interval ear training at any time that suits. It’s a top ear training download in the App Store and is consistently rated 4 or 5 stars by users. There’s also a free app called RelativePitchLite which gets you started and teaches half the intervals of the octave.
If you have any questions (about RelativePitch or interval training in general), come ask in our ear training forums and we’ll be happy to help!
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Step and a Half: Melody Training – Out Now!
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At Easy Ear Training, we’re hugely excited about the potential for technology to revolutionise ear training, and we think training apps on smartphones are leading the way. Our newest app release, Step and a Half, is a game which teaches you to understand melodies so that you can play them by ear, write them down, or bring the music you hear in your head out on your instrument.
About Step and a Half
I posted some information about Step and a Half earlier this week – but there’s lots more to tell you! If you missed that post, you can catch up here or watch this video we made to show you the ropes:
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Announcing our new iPhone app: Step and a Half!
News, Playing By EarWe are excited to announce our new ear training app for iPhone and iPod Touch:
Step and a Half will be released on the App Store this Thursday, 8th July, and we wanted to give EasyEarTraining.com readers a sneak peak of the new app in advance!
What’s it for?
One of the most common requests we’ve heard from RelativePitch users has been to provide training of more than one interval in a row. It’s the natural progression – once you can recognise each interval correctly, you want to start using that to figure out tunes, chord progressions, new improvisations, and so on. But it can be a bit of a stretch from identifying an interval in isolation to identifying it in among other notes of a melody, especially if it’s a long melody or you’re trying to work it out live.
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