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"Listen is awesome. I feel like a two year old, mixed with an adult's awareness that he is learning.... Thanks again for the advice!" --Pete A. |
"Listen" Mac Ear-Training Software
Introduction | Features | Buy it Now! | Download Demo
INTRODUCTION
Greg Jalbert's Listen™is a great music ear training program for those wishing to strengthen their perception of melodic and harmonic material. It features a wide variety of matching and multiple choice exercises. Listen is used by thousands of music students in universities, high schools, with private teachers and at home.Exercises include: single notes, melody, growing melody, intervals, triads, 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th chords, random atonal chords, interval identification, chord type identification, and inversion identification. Users work at their own pace, choosing materials such as keys, scale types, range, pace, chord sets, and many other options.
For the Mac only, Listen costs $100, and makes a great companion to Edly's Music Theory for Practical People.
FEATURES
Exercises
In most of the Listen exercises, the user is presented with a melody, interval or chord and must match it by playing on the piano, guitar, or MIDI keyboard. There are also several multiple-choice exercises where the user answers by clicking the button that identifies what they heard.
Melodies are randomly generated using the selected pitches, key, scale, range, and melody length parameters, and proceed according to a user-determined pace. Chords are randomly presented from those currently included in the chord set. There are seventeen types of exercises and with the flexible materials system, new examples can be automatically generated for ages 12 through adult. Even professional musicians are challenged by the higher levels.
Materials and Levels of Difficulty
Users can change the level of difficulty by changing the key, scale or mode, melody or interval range, chord sets, chord inversion sets, chord arpeggiation, and pace. There are 5 preset levels of difficulty, and users can also customize Listen with their own settings.
Feedback
Listen provides instant graphic feedback on the progress through the current exercise. A simple bar chart tracks how many right and wrong answers. Small question mark icons appear for each note of a given example. As you play your answer, you get feedback on whether the notes were too high, too low, or correct. You can repeat the current example with the Repeat button, or start a new sequence with the Start button.
Sound and MIDI Features
Listen can play examples on the Macintosh 4-voice synthesizer, or a MIDI synthesizer keyboard or module. The current version of Listen supports the Apple MIDI Manager, the new Sound Manager and includes sampled sounds of piano, electric piano, and guitar. You can even add your own sounds.Users can answer using the Piano and Guitar windows or a MIDI keyboard, guitar, or wind instrument.
Other Features
A notation window displays answers to melodic and harmonic material.
Other options include a Beat-The-Timer option to engage a time limit for answers, Too-High/Too-Low hints, Melody Length, Floating and Locked Chords and Intervals, Chord Sets, Chord Inversions Sets, and several others. Listen's comprehensive flexibility make it a powerful tool for beginner through advanced students.
The complete electronic manual includes a table of contents, tutorials on exercises and materials, a window and command reference, glossary, appendix of musical examples, and an index. Hypertext linking and a search command make finding information very easy.
Requirements
• Any Macintosh model from the Mac Classic and later.
• System 6, System 7, OS 8, or later.
• Power Macintosh and 68K compatible.
• Apple MIDI Manager supported but not required.
• 500K RAM.
• 800K Disk space.
DOWNLOAD THE LISTEN™ DEMO
The Listen demo is compressed with StuffIt and can be uncompressed with StuffIt or StuffIt Expander.TO BUY LISTEN™
Clicking this link will take you to its creator's Listen home page, where you can buy the program. Enjoy!Listen™ is a trademark of Imaja.