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139 lessons divided into 4 exercise areas will help you start to build up your aural skills and make you a better musicans!

EarMaster Essential is easy to use, efficient and makes ear training both fun and motivating!

Features:
- Absolutely all musicians need ear training, so EarMaster has been developed to meet the needs of beginning musicians just as well as those of college students and professionals.
- Plug a microphone or an electric instrument (e.g. guitar or bass) into your soundcard to sing, clap or play your answers!
- Jazz and ear training go hand in hand. EarMaster 5 includes therefore a whole set of lessons dedicated to the specificities of Jazz music, including jazz chords and swing rhythms!
- Answer the questions using the visual interface of your choice: staff, piano, guitar, bass, violin, cello, banjo, and most other stringed instruments.
- EarMaster includes a series of interactive rhythm exercices to challenge your timing, tighten your future performances, and training you at memorizing and transcribing rhythmic patterns.
- You can use most of the activities available in EarMaster with a MIDI controller, such as a MIDI keyboard, a MIDI drumpad, a MIDI Guitar, and more, for even more realism and interactivity.
- EarMaster is one of the very few programs that will allow you to train your ear using fixed- or movable-Do solfege, as several highly renowned music schools do!
- With the detailed statistics window of EarMaster, you will be able to monitor your progress lesson by lesson, day after day.
- EarMaster is the favourite ear training program of a myriad of musicians, beginners as well as profesionals, but not only."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }