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goodEar Pro - Ear Training
The text presents "goodEar," an ear training app designed to help musicians of all levels improve their ear training skills. The app offers four modes: intervals, chords, scales, and melodies. In the intervals mode, users can choose from all intervals between 2 octaves, and can activate a "backing chord" to hear the interval in a harmonic context. Chords mode includes all possible triads, inversions, 4-note-chords, and extended/altered chords. The scales mode features 38 different scales, including ionian, harmonic-minor, melodic-minor, pentatonic, hexatonic, and octatonic scales. Users can play the scales ascending or descending. In the melodies mode, users can identify randomly generated melodies, choose the intervals to be included, and hear the melody in a harmonic context with the "backing chord" feature. The app also allows users to create their own exercises without relying on wizards, play the exercises on piano or with multiple-choice answers, track progress through statistics, and set highscores to challenge themselves. The development of goodEar was informed by the knowledge and expertise of professional musicians and teachers, providing high quality music education on the iPad.