When I'm not playing with computers I spend a lot of time trying to play guitar, and one aspect of my musical education I have struggled with is training my ear. My guitar teacher suggested practicing with Ear Trainer , a free site that is very complete but has a terrible user interface.
In what was a very productive session of procrastinating on doing my guitar homework I ended up making my own ear training site. So, if you're in need of some ear training, please take a look at Minor Seventh .
I built the site on SoundManager 2 (which regrettably requires Adobe Flash, because JavaScript has no native way to play sound), jQuery and jQuery UI . I'll work on an HTML 5 version once someone sends me a free iPad.
I'd love some feedback on the site if you end up using it. Upcoming features include:
- Listening mode, where pressing the interval buttons plays the interval
- Chord sound training
- The option to change the root note to a random note
- The option to play only the arpeggio, not the chord
- New samples
- Progression training (identify a set of chords by location in the key)
Big thanks to Jessica McKellar , Mike Fisher, Greg Price, Todd MacGarvey, Giles Hall, and the others who helped work out all the bugs. Would you like a new feature or a change? Post a comment here or send some feedback from the 'Submit Feedback' link on Minor Seventh !
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