Welcome to Viola Ear Training
The ear training app that will teach you to play by ear using your Viola!
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Do you want to hear, understand and then be able to instantly play new music by ear?
Do you want to create music effortlessly on your Viola?
Do you want to improvise in any situation and interact with the musicians around you?
If you play Viola, your answer to these questions is undoubtedly yes. The key to these skills lies in the ability for your fingers to instantly and automatically play what your ear hears. Viola Ear Training is a software tool that will teach you these skills using your Viola!
How do you play Viola Ear Training?
1. Listen to the musical questions the game asks you.
2. Play back the answer on your Viola.
3. Your iPhone or iPad will provide feedback.
- Viola Ear Training will ask you musical questions. You will answer by playing your Viola.
- As the game starts, questions will be very easy, but will progressively become more difficult as you advance.
- The questions are designed to train your musical ear and hands to understand and instinctively play the music you hear on your Viola.
- Every game and question asked in Viola Ear Training was created to have real world applications. The skills you will be gaining will have immediate benefit to the songs and music you are learning, creating, or playing!
Why was Viola Ear Training created?
Viola Ear Training was created by an amateur guitarist that was frustrated by not being able to keep up with the pros he was privileged to play out and jam with. These pros could effortlessly play songs after just listening to them on the way to the gig or better yet, they could play music they had never heard before on stage and create interesting parts on the spot. The amateur had to spend countless hours memorizing and practising the songs on the set list. But if there were any mid-song changes while on stage, the amateur was lost! What the amateur quickly realized was that the pros were not necessary playing difficult riffs and cool chops, but they could hear and play music as if they were talking...instinctively! They could always play the right notes at the right time. Their hands would instinctively go where their ears heard. They could speak the language of music.
Out of the frustration of not being able to keep up with these pros, came Guitar Ear Training. The premise is simple; an app that can teach you to effortlessly and confidently hear and instinctively play music on the guitar in any setting. Whether on stage, writing, recording or just jamming with friends, Guitar Ear Training's goal is simple. If you can hear it, you can play it. After successfully using Guitar Ear Training to grow as both a guitarist and musician, Viola Ear Training was created. Since the real secret in learning any instrument is to hear and speak the language of music, which the app teaches you to do, the same principles could easily be adapted to any instrument.
Does Viola Ear Training work?
Does it work? Yes! After just a few weeks of play testing during the development stages this was proven! For the first time ever, the amateur was on stage while a new song was added to the set list. He immediately knew the chords that were being played and how to improvise with them!
The reason this app is so effective is you hear it, see it, feel it, play it. The ability to hear relative pitch is one of the most important skills any musician can have. Developing excellent relative pitch can take years with traditional methods. Viola Ear Training speeds up this process for everyone! By using Viola Ear Training you are learning to associate intervals, melodies and chord changes (hear) with the physical placement of your fingers (feel) and you will get visual feedback on the fret board diagrams (see). Why this is so important is the more senses you can apply to learning, that faster it becomes to acquire the desired skill . In essence you are associating more "inputs" with the music you are hearing - with this app you are teaching your hands to instinctively go where you ear hears. If you want to play music effortlessly on your Viola, you need the Viola Ear Training. The amateur has improved and you will too!
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| Fretboard View | Staff View |
| 1. Built-in chromatic tuner | Includes all features of the Fretboard View and: |
| 2. Melodic & Harmonic Intervals games | 1. Scale Singing games |
| 3. 3 Note & 5 Note Melodies games | 2. Sing in 3rds, 4ths, 5ths |
| 4. Triads games | 3. Sight Singing games |
| 5. Power Chord progression games | 4. Note & Solfege answer guides |
| 6. Basic Chord progression games | |
| 7. Note & Nashville answer guides | |
| 8. 50 & 100 question games | |
| 9. Fast & slow game speeds | |
| 10. Beginner & advanced gameplay | |
| 11. Microphone sensitivity options | |
| 12. Multiple Modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor |
Train with these other instruments too!
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