eMedia Music Corp. has debuted an ear training solution that possesses the core features of EarMaster Pro 5 at a lower price.
EarMaster Essential offers users all of the practical knowledge needed to play in a band or an orchestra with more confidence, or to pick up tunes from songs and music. Train your ear, practice music theory, and become a better musician with EarMaster Essential. This is easy easy-to-follow interactive ear training software. EarMaster Essential includes 139 progressive lessons from classical music to rock including jazz chords, swing rhythms, and a customized mode to practice according to your own needs. EarMaster Essential will challenge all trained and untrained ears — it is for all vocalists and musicians playing guitar, piano, bass, drums, flute or any other instrument.
Musicians of all levels will learn to identify, transcribe, and play intervals, chord,s and rhythms. User-defined on-screen interfaces for every musician include: staff, multiple-choice, piano, guitar, bass, violin, cello and more. EarMaster Essential will teach you to connect sounds with theory with interval comparison and identification drills, chord recognition and transcriptions, as well as rhythm reading exercises. Highly interactive answer input methods such as MIDI instrument, microphone, plugged-in instrument, or the computer keyboard and mouse allow for maximum flexibility. Exercises will give you instant feedback on your responses and create detailed statistics of your progress. The complexity will increase as you progress and each exercise will improve different areas of your musical ear. The CD-ROM, releasing this month, will be a hybrid for both Windows (98, 2000, Me, XP and Vista) and Macintosh (OS X 10.4.11+, Intel and Power PC) platforms.
