My friend and I study with the same music teacher. My friend created a custom exercise for ear training. He suggested I purchase a copy of ear master and he would send me the file he created.
I purchased Ear Master, and he sent me the file. I've managed to import it, and I can see it when I launch the program, but for some reason it's not working properly.
When I launch 'exercise setup' I should see about 60 users defined exercises selected. Instead, only the 'Major' exercise is selected.
Exercise setup files contain the elements that each exercise is to feature. For example, you can set up a customized Ryhtm reading exercise with only 32th note values and 3/4 bars. However, you can't make sets of lessons or "tutor" files with the Pro version (which is the student version). Only the teacher edition EarMaster School can be used to create and save tutors.
This means that if the customized chord identification is set up to only ask you to identify Major chords, that is what it will do. There won't be a limit of the number of questions or a progression in the difficulty. It lets you choose the elements of practice for one single exercise. But of course you can create as many exercise setups as you want to and make them harder each time.
If you would like to have whole sets of progressive lessons (like those featured in the standard and the jazz tutors), you should ask your teacher to create a tutor for you with EarMaster School.
Both myself and my friend have the Pro version. From what your saying we cannot create custom exercises and share them with each other.
For example, I can create a customized chord identification exercise that uses 5 note chords, but I cannot save it and send it to my friend for him to use, correct?
While this would be a nice feature, I can certainly create my own exercises. But I just want to let you know that becasuse we thought we could share custom created exercises was the reason for my purchasing a copy of this program. Still, I am extremely satisfied with the program.
Here's the ear training exercise I've been doing. It was a created by a well known music instructor.
The exercise begins by sounding a cadence in C major.
(I notice that with Ear Master that the cadence will randomly switch between both a C Major or A minor cadence. A 'nice to have' would be the ability to specify C major only.)
Once the tonality is established, sound one note. The note may be repeated in a slow, steady rhythm until an attempt is made to identify it.
If you can correctly identify the pitch, move on to another. Once you can do this 100%, move to 2, then 3, 4 etc. The goal is to eventually hear all 12 notes in order in relation to the original cadence.
Hello Dana,
You can save Exercise setups. The only thing is that Exercise setup files are including the elements of practice for the customized exercise you just created. This means that you can start a customized exercise, choose your elements of practise and save them as a "exercise setup" file that you can share with your friend.
However, only the School version enables you to create whole sets of lessons with instructions, titles, number of questions, answering method, etc.
