Overview

EarMaster 5 Pro teaches ear training for all musicians, at any playing level, playing any instrument! If you want to sing, improvise or jam with complete confidence, you need to recognize all the sounds around you. EarMaster includes over 650 ear training lessons for recognizing and transcribing intervals, chords, scales, rhythms and melodies. You can even create your own customized exercises! Learn to play, improvise, notate and compose by ear. EarMaster will challenge trained and untrained ears for all vocalists and musicians playing guitar, piano, bass, drums, flute or any other instrument! Making music with others will become easy and fun!

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Features

EarMaster ear-training will help you: Memorize songs faster Play and sing music exactly as you hear it Read sheet music and "hear it in your head" instantly Understand music at a deeper level Perform with confidence in any musical situation
(Click image to enlarge)	Ear-Training Tools Standard & Jazz tutors with over 650 lessons Create your own customized exercises On-screen guitar, piano, violin, bass & others Sing, play or clap answers into a microphone Automatic guitar tuner and metronome Variable tone range – from soprano to bass Plays in any of 128 instrument sounds
(Click image to enlarge)	Play with total confidence! If you want to sing, improvise or jam with complete confidence, you need to recognize all the sounds around you. Ear training can make this possible. Making music with others will become easy and fun!
(Click image to enlarge)	Designed for all students EarMaster provides all the tools you need to hone your hearing skills, all the way up to a professional level. Instruction is available in 13 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin and Japanese. EarMaster fills your needs regardless of your language, instrument or musical style.
(Click image to enlarge)	Listens to your performance You can sing or play answers to exercises into your computer's microphone with any instrument you choose. The instant feedback you get on your answers will perfect your pitch accuracy and sight-reading skills. You can perform and input rhythm exercises by clapping into a microphone or using your computer mouse, keyboard, or any MIDI instrument. The interactive feedback will help you learn to play any rhythm, no matter how complicated.
(Click image to enlarge)	Helps you set and achieve your goals EarMaster provides you with detailed information on how your ear training has progressed. Have you become better at identifying the minor 7th chord within the past two weeks? How much time have you spent training your ears during the past month?
EarMaster 5 is available in two editions: Pro and School. Please contact our Educational Sales Department for pricing on EarMaster 5 School. Remember to ask about Lab Packs! EarMaster 5 is developed by EarMaster ApS and is distributed in the USA exclusively by eMedia Music Corporation.

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Reviews

What reviewers are saying...

"This is a terrific program... It is very well-designed and can be used by students of all ages."

– Michelle Gordon, American Music Teacher Magazine

"Many people might say that a computer cannot replace human beings, but EarMaster certainly comes close in many ways. Given the nature of our discipline and the large amount of practice required, EarMaster is a patient and non-judgmental teacher."

– Dr. David Ehrke, Professor of Music, University of Nevada, Reno

Read the Official Letter of Recommendation from Dr. David Ehrke:

September 5, 2005 Letter of recommendation By: Dr. David Ehrke, Professor of Music, University of Nevada, Reno Congratulations are in order; finally a comprehensive ear-training program that truly suits all of our needs at the University of Nevada, Reno! I have taught the two-year ear-training core curriculum for music majors for more than 20 years and have used a number of computer-assisted classroom teaching aids. I ran two programs simultaneously for a number of years because no individual program "did it all." EarMaster has finally solved that problem. There are three aspects of the EarMaster School 5 program that I find compelling: The ease of operation for both the student and teacher. The power and comprehensiveness of the programming. The flexibility and range of applications. EarMaster is very user-friendly and the students pick it up immediately. Their comments about EarMaster are universally positive in the mandatory class evaluations completed at the end of every semester. It took very little time to learn how to write my own tutors and lessons, always a worry for professors who have dealt with the difficult learning curves of various music publishing programs. Our audio-visual people had no difficulty setting up the network that now runs nine computers from the one server; quite honestly, I probably could have done it myself using your clear and easy to follow Users' Guide. Class size is a huge issue at UNR with approximately 110 majors in our first- and second-year classes. Ideally, we should have teaching assistants working in labs with groups of 10 to 15 students but we just don't have the resources. I’m certain there are many schools at all levels that face those same financial and space limitations. Our nine computers are much like having nine teaching assistants working for me, and they take up very little space! There is a huge diversity of experience and skill among our entering freshman, which is often the product of their early training as vocalists, percussionists, pianists, and various instrumentalists. This is where EarMaster helps save the day. By loading EarMaster on their personal computers and working in the lab, the less-experienced students are often able to catch up and pass the class with flying colors. The EarMaster Standard Tutor starts at a basic level and virtually eliminates the need to send these less-experienced students back into a fundamentals class. Vocalists with reading and rhythmic deficiencies can focus on the extensive rhythm tutors, while percussionists often focus on the singing tutors that give them feedback on pitch accuracy. The programming is so easy that I actually write tutors for individuals or groups with specific listening problems as they come up in class. High school and community college programs would certainly find EarMaster invaluable for fundamentals classes, basic theory, instrumental classes, vocal classes, and much more. The addition of the Jazz Tutor was a great idea! We have a big jazz program at UNR, which is the home of the Reno Jazz Festival. Our jazz majors are spending a lot of time in the lab because once they complete the required work for my class, they wind up spending hours on the jazz tutor. They have found it to be very extensive and a must for their basic jazz education. I can't imagine money being better spent than investing in EarMaster. It’s like getting more faculty members and teaching assistants for the price of a license. Many people might say that a computer cannot replace human beings, but EarMaster certainly comes close in many ways. Given the nature of our discipline and the large amount of practice required, EarMaster is a patient and non-judgmental teacher. I often tell my clarinet and saxophone students to practice as if I were sitting next to them and think about what I would say to them while practicing. That is what EarMaster does for my sight-singing students. Your efforts have made EarMaster an integral part of our program and I can't imagine getting along with out it. Thank you. Dr. David Ehrke Professor of Music Mail Stop 226 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557

Dr. David Ehrke, Professor of Music, University of Nevada, Reno Dr. Ehrke received both the 1986 Outstanding Teacher Award and the 1996 Mousel/Feltner Award for Excellence in Creative Activity at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is a professor of music. He is a performing artist for the Yamaha corporation. Dr. Ehrke is principal clarinet with the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and has been a featured soloist with the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the Reno Philharmonic on both clarinet and saxophone.

Courtesy of EarMaster ApS.

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Requirements

System Requirements

Questions about system requirements? Contact our technical support department.

Demo

Product Demo

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EarMaster is available in two editions: Pro: Designed for the home or individual user. Features advanced ear training drills and lessons to improve your musicianship regardless of your current skill level. School: Features advanced networking support and student progress reporting required for institutional use. EarMaster School is the ideal hub product for a schools music lab whether working with primary, secondary, or college age students. Download the Pro edition demo (2.8 MB) To download the EarMaster 5 Pro edition demo, click on the link above and follow the instructions given. After downloading, double-click the .zip file to expand the archive (Windows 98 users may use the free utility Zip Reader by PKWare to unzip the file), run "Earpro5setup.exe", and follow the instructions of the Setup program. Download the School edition demo (3.7 MB) To download the EarMaster 5 School edition demo, click on the link above and follow the instructions given. After downloading, double-click the .zip file to expand the archive (Windows 98 users may use the free utility Zip Reader by PKWare to unzip the file), run "Earscl5setup.exe", and follow the instructions of the Setup program. Note: The above are 30-day timed trials that will not function past April 2008. Please be sure to contact our Educational Sales Department for pricing on EarMaster School. Remember to ask about Lab Packs!

Academic Version

EarMaster 5 School

EarMaster 5 School is the Educational Edition of EarMaster Pro and was developed specifically for use in schools and private studios. EarMaster School includes all the features and content of EarMaster Pro with these additional features:

• Mandatory exercise settings - when making lessons for other users (time limits, answer method, etc.)
• Student statistics
• Student administration
• Ability to organize users in a classes
• Network installation
• Runs from a server (installation on client computers is optional)
• Individual user Log in

Discounted multi-station lab packs and site licenses are also available.

Request a Trial Version for your School

For more information about EarMaster 5 School, please contact our Educational Sales Department.

FEATURE LIST	STANDARD	SCHOOL
12 exercise areas: Interval Comparison Interval Identification Interval Singing Chord Identification Chord Inversions Chord progressions Scale Identification Rhythm Reading Rhythm Imitation Rhythm Dictation Rhythm Correction Melodic Dictation	ALL 12	ALL 12
Standard tutor (450 lessons)
Jazz tutor (211 lessons)
Create customized exercises
Create new tutors	X
Ear training wizard
On-screen guitar, piano, bass, staff, violin and more
Custom on-screen string instruments (all tunings)
Left handed string instruments on-screen
Single click multiple-choice
Sing, play or clap answers using a microphone
Midi keyboard support
Sound2MIDI 2.0
Metronome
Instruments and sounds (Using General Midi)	128	128
High score
Guitar tuner
Multiple users all using the same PC
Multiple users across a network	X
Multiple language support
Export/import own results and assignments
Export/import all users’ results and assignments	X
Create custom chords, scales and chord progressions (in customized exercises)
Choose specific keys and question position in the key (in customized exercises)
Choose tone range (in customized exercises)
Choose time signatures and specific note values or rhythmic patterns (in customized exercises)
Mandatory exercise settings for users (time limits, answer method, etc.)	X
Comprehensive set of exercise settings: Auto new question Auto replay of question Limit the number of times a question can be played Time limit on answering the question Tone naming:   Anglo-Saxon (C, D, E, etc.)   Solfege (Do, Re, Mi, etc.) Clef can be G, F or C
View own statistics
View all students' statistics	X
Student administration	X
Organize users in a classes	X
Runs in a network	X
Runs from a server	X
Identify user with Windows login
Identify user with EarMaster login (shows login on program start)	X
Free support
Free to try
Multiuser licenses with academic pricing

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS	STANDARD	SCHOOL
Monitor resolution	800x600	800x600
Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP
Disk space	12 MB	14 MB