eMedia Earmaster 5

by eMedia

Product Features

• Create custom exercises; plays in any of 128 instrument sounds
• Ear-training software with instant interactive feedback
• Standard Tutor with 400+ lessons; Jazz Tutor with 200+ lessons
• Automatically increases difficulty as performance improves
• Auto guitar tuner and metronome; variable tone range

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000EUFE66
• Item model number: EM02061
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 16, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,339 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #34 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Sound Libraries

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

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!

EarMaster is your personal teacher. It is easy to use and provides instant feedback. EarMaster includes a Standard Tutor with over 400 lessons, as well as a Jazz Tutor with over 200 lessons. Both will guide you and automatically increase in difficulty as your ear improves. You can even create your own customized exercises!

A better ear will help you play, sing, improvise, compose, and notate any style of music. Ear training will give you insight into any musical performance, including your own. You will hear music as you never have before!

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
• Perform with confidence in any musical situation
• Understand music at a deeper level

Features:

• Standard and Jazz tutors with over 650 lessons
• Instant interactive feedback on answers
• Create your own customized exercises
• On-screen guitar, piano, violin, bass, and 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
• Instruction available in 13 languages
• Statistics provide detailed information on progress

Product Description

EarMaster is an effective ear-training program that will improve the way you hear play and compose music. Includes over 600 lessons!System Requirements:Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/ or later 10 MB hard disk space Soundcard or other MIDI device SVGA monitor (800x600) 32k colorsFormat: WIN 98ME2000XPVISTA Genre: REFERENCE / LIFESTYLE UPC: 746290120645 Manufacturer No: EM020614

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Better Way to Learn!, February 8, 2008

By 

J. Vazquez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eMedia Earmaster 5 (CD-ROM)

Ear Master has two components that have sold me to the product. Besides the conventional ear-training excercises, there is an area dedicated to jazz ear training. For those of us who improvise, wish to improvise and just wish to improve...the excercises allow you to "hear changes". Also there is a section that allows you to isolate any area that is giving you problems (ex>sus 2 versus sus 4 chords harmonically) and constantly have excercises given to you to really learn and eventually HEAR the change. I highly recommend this to any musician.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wide range in drill configuration and excellent support, February 11, 2010

By 

L. Friedman (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eMedia Earmaster 5 (CD-ROM)

I like the flexibility of this training software -- the ability to create my own exercises. I use the Tutor to narrow down issues and then construct my own exercises to further focus drills. Of the software I tried this one also has a fairly complete results report. I think this is important because it allows you to overcome your own sense of where weaknesses are when your own sense is incorrect.

The only issue I've found is with some of the rhythm drills that depend on the platform on which the software is running to be properly responsive. I find the responsiveness too unpredictable and therefor some of the drills like the rhythm imitation less useful. I do not think this is the fault of EM 5 or any other training software that tries to drill rhythmic input. It's more a platform issue.

Another very positive thing about this software is that I have found the Support to be outstanding. I've received responses to every single question or comment I've made within a day (I'm in the Pacific Coast USA timezone and they are in Denmark) even before I purchased it.

Well worth it.

4.0 out of 5 stars using EarMaster 5, August 27, 2009

By 

alzimer "alzimer" (last state to see the sun set) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: eMedia Earmaster 5 (CD-ROM)

didn't realize how tone deaf i was until i excercised on this video. guessing won't help. it's going to take a while to train my recognition of note intervals.