EarMaster 7 Professional - Ear Training, Sight-Singing, Rhythm Trainer

This software is not worth buying , Open certain courses you have to pay this is crazy. It was not in the video, so I think this sucks.

This program was a blessing for me. I am an "evening musician" playing woodwinds and singing in a choir, with only 1 hour for daily instrumental music practicing, and- I am much better after several months of training with this software for additional 15 min/day. The benefits far outweigh the shortcomings. They keep updating it on a regular basis too. Highly recommended! A good microphone with sensitivity control is essential as otherwise the ambient noises will trigger a software response.

It reads, "suitable for musicians of all skill levels", but only the customizable rhythm exercises can be used by advanced musicians. Others will see a lack in the following: 1. Jazz chords are all in closed root position, not in voicings that musicians actually use. What is the point of recognizing a V7b9 chord in closed position, when only beginning students play it that way? Jazz musicians use open position chords almost exclusively, with 3-13-7-9 or 7-9-13 left hand voicings 2. No ear training for extensions beyond b9 chords such as #11, b13, etc 3. Chord progressions are all limited to a few chords, not complete progressions 4. Cadences are not voiced correctly as they would be in classical music (they are simply voiced as clumpy chords, without regard to correct voicing and spacing conventions (why have a section on plagal cadences when they are not voiced in 4 part harmony, correctly?) 5. Preferences are too basic. You can't change the tempo or number off beats of the lead-in beats of the metronome, so you have to wait for each exercise. Many more problems too. Not well-thought through. If this is used at the "best music schools worldwide" as it says, then music education is at an all time low.

I like the way the lessons are broken up and its ability to check my singing. I can’t compare it to anything else but it sure beats the price of paying someone else to play surprise intervals and hear me sing.

the software doesn't even WORK, it requires a mic you sing and clap into, it's not in sync with the game enough to work Some lessons require you click a mouse to a beat... THAT is NEVER in sync enough for you to pass -- always the EXACT same amount off the beat, BECAUSE the game itself introduces too much latency for you to be able to pass; so to train to click ON the beat you have to click consistently 30 ms before the beat? 40 ms before the beat? WTF IS IT?? It's not ON the beat... WHICH IS THE WHOLE ***ING POINT. These people should NOT even be in business.

Unable to use with windows 11

Has a lot of great tools for ear training

I have EarMaster 5, but if I review that, nobody will see it since there's a new edition. And, since EarMaster 7 seems to be a year old, you're not going to see reviews of its effectiveness over years of use, are you? I have had this for years (maybe a decade or more), and there are times I used it quite regularly - maybe 20 min or more a day. But, I just never felt like I made much progress. Well, now I'm taking a graduate course in TEACHING ear training, and some of my readings explain why. Isolated interval drills and the like apparently aren't very helpful for overall ear training - the key is to understand the music in context. The melodic exercises were particularly bad - they would just have a random string of notes that made no musical sense. (Maybe helpful if you're interested in post-tonal music, but not much otherwise!) Maybe you'll have a different experience (people have different learning styles and natural abilities, after all), but all I got out of EarMaster 5 was countless hours of frustration and low self-esteem! Maybe they've improved it with the later editions and newer pedagogical advances, but I thought it might be helpful to give long-term usefulness input.