Friday, February 21, 2014

Sebastian...ear training software for music teachers...

Last week, Crosmer unveiled his solution to ear training, called Sebastian. It's named after Sebastian Bach, a well-trained ear himself.

The desktop program, available for Mac, PC and Linux, uses an on-screen keyboard and walks users through a series of exercises in which Sebastian plays two notes. The program gives students a visual depiction of where the first note is on the keyboard and then they must guess where the second note is.  The difficulty continues to increase as it goes from single notes to chords to scales. The program also identifies areas where students are struggling and repeats those exercises while weeding out ones they ace.

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