Tiny Ear Trainer
Tiny Ear Trainer is a tiny piece of software that helps you to recognize musical intervals. Tiny Ear Trainer is free/opensource software written for the GNU/Linux operating system.
Features
- Associates colors to intervals
- Features learning mode which plays interval together with color and name
- Plays harmonic or melodic intervals
- Uses fluidsynth/soundfonts for playback
- Uses Python/GTK
- Is tiny!
Screenshots
Warning
This is still beta quality software and might not work as expected!
Download
- tinyeartrainer-0.1.0.tar.gz (40 kb)
Packages
Usage
Start Tiny Ear Trainer and open the preferences, select the intervals you wish to train (for beginners a major third, fifth and seventh would be a good start). Apply the preferences and push play. The Tiny Ear Trainer will now play one of the intervals, try to find out which one. After a few seconds it will automatically show the answer and then play the next interval for you.
Development
You can find the latest development version in this git repository:
http://29a.ch/git/tinyeartrainer
Feedback
I'm very interested in feedback. Do you miss a feature? Do you have a problem? Or is it just perfect? Tell me!
Alternatives
GNU Solfege is a far more powerful alternative to tiny ear trainer.
Is an online eartrainer that associates intervals with songs
Jonas Wagner
Really need python >= 2.6!?
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tinyeartrainer: tinyeartrainer depends on python (>= 2.6); however: Version of python on system is 2.5.2-0ubuntu1.
Kubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, Qt: 3.3.8b, KDE: 3.5.10
Comment by Beethoven — 8/20/09 6:57 AM | # - re
Yes, right now it does depend on python 2.6/Ubuntu 9.04. I'll try to create a version for 2.5 later.
Cheers,
Jonas
Comment by Jonas Wagner — 8/21/09 5:44 PM | # - re
Tiny Ear Trainer has been featured at LinuxLinks.com
Comment by Steve Emms — 8/23/09 5:55 PM | # - re
It's anything but tiny! The ubuntu software centre shows me an installation file which is 119 Mb!
I've always been looking for a simpler version of Solfege though. Keep up the good work!
Comment by Nelson — 10/23/11 9:12 AM | # - re
WHAT? Look at the tarball, it's 40k. I guess Ubuntu includes fluidsynth and everything. Anyway, glad you like it! :)
Comment by Jonas Wagner — 10/23/11 10:50 PM | # - re