Earmaster School 5

Earmaster School 5 is an interactive and powerful tool for teaching ear training. The learn-by-doing approach allows your students to develop better musical ears - and it is great fun too. EarMaster is easy to use and includes all the features you need for teaching ear training.

EarMaster School 5 includes all features and exercises in EarMaster Pro plus extra educational features:
-Tutor editor
  -Use the 651 ready-to-use lessons or make your own customized lessons with the advanced Tutor Editor.
  -Control how well the students must perform before advancing to the next lesson.
  -Tutor lessons are compatible with EarMaster Pro.
  -E-learning compatible:
    -Distribute your lessons to students’ home computers by e-mail, on a website or on all types of storage devices.
    -Receive the students’ results through the integrated export-by-email functionality.
 -Student administration and report facilities
  -The User Overview function allows teachers to easily control and evaluate the students’ assignments.
 -Detailed information on students’ training and performance with advanced report function.
  -Print summaries and results for single users or whole classes.
  -Easy management of student data.
  -Detailed statistics - monitor the students’ progress and benefit from information on every aspect of the students’ ear training process.
-Multi-user and network facilities
  -Students and teachers can continue their latest ear training session on any computer in the network.
  -Runs in any Windows network and is easy to install.
  -Remembers results and settings for each user.
  -No limitations on number of users.
  -Use EarMaster in your own language.
  -For students, EarMaster School looks just like EarMaster Pro. Only teachers and administrators have access to the advanced educational
    features.

Scientific research shows that we remember 20% of what we see, 40% of what we see and hear, but 80% of what we experience. EarMaster School is an experiential ear training tool. It’s highly interactive - the students see, hear, and most importantly, they do.

Earmaster School 5 comes with a jazz tutor and a standard tutor with a total of 651 lessons. Lessons are ready to use or can offer inspiration for you to create your own lessons using the Tutor editor. For example, you can make lessons function as tests, setting time limits and many other restrictions, and insert these test-lessons in between regular lessons as often as you wish. Your custom-made tutor lessons will challenge each student individually, based on his or her performance, and they will also receive feedback instantly.

As a teacher, you can focus on the most difficult questions and concepts. You have access to live statistics on the students’ performances, which gives you the opportunity to approach the students individually or in groups to work out their difficulties, while working with EarMaster.

Students can do ear training homework lessons after class in your computer lab. You can also email your own tutor lessons to your students, so they can work with EarMaster at home. Followingly, the students can email their results to you from their home computer, or bring them to school on a storage device. You can then add the received results to your EarMaster statistics and view them together with the other users’ existing and incoming results. The high score feature will motivate the students to compete and devote extra hours to ear training.

Earmaster School 5 is a motivating and effective teaching tool. Your students will develop a much better musical ear than they can with any other teaching method or program.

EarMaster will challenge all trained and untrained ears. It is for all vocalists and musicians playing guitar, piano, bass, drums, flute or any other instrument.  A complete ear training package.EarMaster includes exercises in identifying intervals, chords, chord inversions, chord progressions, scales and modes. You will also find exercises in transcribing melodies and rhythms and in sight-reading or imitation of rhythms. The broad range of exercise areas covers all your needs for training pitch, harmonies and rhythms. All together the exercises areas will help you enhance your musicality and improve your playing.

Earmaster School 5 includes two advanced Tutors that will guide you and increase the level of complexity as you improve your ear. The Standard Tutor has 440 lessons ranging from beginners to advanced users. The Jazz tutor has 211 lessons with swing rhythms and jazz chords. You can take a lesson again and again, because it will change every time you take it.

You can customize EarMaster more than any other ear training tool. There are a lot of settings for the user interface and for the way you use EarMaster. While you work with a lesson you can change clefs, time limits, input methods, tempo, sounds, etc. EarMaster also allows you to use your MIDI instrument to insert tones and rhythms, or as a remote control. There are also keyboard shortcuts to all features. A great feature is that you can make your own custom tuned string instrument for inserting and displaying the tones on the screen. Even left handed string instruments are possible.

In the customized mode you are in control of the exercises and you can configure them to do exactly what you want. You can customize pitch ranges, keys and meters, how the chord or interval should be placed in the keys, how intervals and chords are played, and you can specify exactly what intervals, chords and rhythm values to work with, and much more. You can of course also define your own customized chords, scales and chord progressions.

Earmaster School 5 gives instant audiovisual feedback on everything you do. The tones you enter are transcribed simultaneously on the staff and on the on-screen instruments. When you submit your answer, EarMaster will tell if your answer is wrong. Your answer and the correct answer will be shown on the staff and instruments, and you can hear both individually. This is a very effective learning process where you learn from your errors and improve your ear faster than with any other training method.

Make ear training a musical project by relating it to an instrument you play. EarMaster is designed for musicians playing almost any instrument. You can interact with EarMaster in a multitude of ways. EarMaster supports onscreen piano, guitar, bass, violin, cello, banjo and any other customized string instrument. Using General MIDI, you can utilize all of the 128 instruments and sounds. EarMaster also comes with real-time Sound2MIDI technology that allows you to sing and clap your answer using a microphone - and to play your answer on your favorite instrument. You can also use the onscreen staff, multiple-choice, or use MIDI input from keyboards and other MIDI-devices.

You can monitor your progress by viewing the detailed statistics about your performance. Has your ear improved at identifying the minor 7th chord? What progress have you made in the past two weeks? Are you answering faster? How much time did you spend on ear training during the past month? EarMaster will provide all this information for you.

Do you need to pass an ear training exam in a near future? EarMaster allows you to test your self at home in similar conditions as an actual ear training exam. Any tutor lesson or customized exercise can be turned into a strict and merciless test. Did you miss identifying the chord? Too bad, because I will not play it again. And I need your answer in 10 seconds.

Earmaster School 5 is very suitable for beginners. It is intuitive and has a user-friendly interface. Even kids can use it. The program starts with an ear training wizard that will explain the exercises and training modes for you. EarMaster suggests you to let the standard tutor instruct you and let him guide you through the lessons. EarMaster also includes a quick music theory introduction and comprehensive help available anywhere in the program.

EarMaster allows you to use a microphone to clap, sing or play answers on your favorite instrument.  Using a microphone makes ear training more interactive - and fun.  No special hardware is required. Just plug a microphone into your sound card.

Earmaster School 5 offers advanced ear training and covers all significant areas in intervals, scales, chords, rhythms and melodies. Each exercise will improve different areas of your musical ear. Using EarMaster will refine all important areas of your musical ear. You will develop greater musicality, better musical confidence and experience real enjoyment of music.
-Interval singing
-Interval identification
-Interval comparison
-Scale identification
-Chord identification
-Chord-inversion identification
-Chord progression identification
-Rhythm dictation
-Rhythm reading
-Rhythm imitation
-Rhythm correction
-Melody dictate

Earmaster School 5 System Requirements:
-Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista and 7   
-Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6, Intel or PowerPC (Universal Binary)   
-Disk space 30 MB
-Monitor resolution 800x600