Listen

by Imaja

“Listen is a music educator’s dream and a Mac musician’s salvation....”
—Geary Yelton, Electronic Musician

Learn at your own pace. Change the speed, duration, and level of difficulty at any time.

• Choose keys, scales or modes, and ranges for melodic and interval exercises, and choose chord and inversion sets for the chord exercises.
• Playback examples using the built-in Macintosh 4-voice synthesizer or any MIDI keyboard or tone generator.
• Play your answers on the Piano or Guitar windows on the screen, or with any MIDI-compatible keyboard, guitar, or wind instrument.
• Choose one of five preset levels of difficulty or the user changeable level of difficulty.
• The user manual contains: contents, tutorial, descriptions of features and exercises, command reference, appendix of musical examples, glossary of musical terms, and a complete index.
• Free technical support

Here you can see Listen in action:

• Click Start to start a new sequence of examples.
• Click Repeat to repeat the current example.
• Click Next to skip to the next example.
• The user has identified the first two notes correctly. The third note was too high, denoted by the X above the line. The fourth note remains unanswered.
• Answers are displayed in the notation window, and can be played automatically in the Piano and Guitar windows by using the Show Me The Answer command in the Options menu.
• The Timer window shows how much time is left if you are using the Beat-The-Timer option, otherwise you can answer at your own pace.
• All chord examples can be optionally arpeggiated, and the top or bottom note can be given as a hint.

You choose a set of included chords for each of the chord exercises. letting you focus on what you need.

Use the Pitch Set dialog to choose material for the melody and interval exercises.

Choose any key and scale type. and even create your own scale..

Listen’s extensive exercises Include:

• Single notes; good for learning perfect pitch.
• Two note melodies.
• Melodic sequences of user-determined length.
• The Growing Melody exercise, designed to stretch your melodic memory.
• Interval recognition, within a user-defined pitch set.
• Triads (major, minor, augmented, diminished).
• Seventh chords of all types.
• Ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords of many types.
• Random atonal chords
• Tuning up, another challenging exercise.
• Multiple-choice triad and seventh chord type identification.
• Multiple-choice interval identification.
• Multiple-choice triad and seventh chord inversion identification.

Use the Materials menu to change your level of difficulty at any time.

• Choose any key for melodic and interval exercises.
• Choose one of 14 scales/modes, including harmonic and melodic minor, whole tone, diminished, and chromatic, or create your own scale.
• Choose the pitch range and starting note for melodic and interval exercises, the base note for locked chords and the range for floating chords.
• Choose the set of inversions to be used for triad and seventh chord examples.
• Choose the sets of triads, seventh chords, ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords for their respective exercises, to focus your skill building.
• Choose how many tones and the pitch set for the random atonal chord examples.
• Choose the melody length.
• Choose floating or locked chords.
• Choose optional too-high or too-low hints.
• Beat-The-Timer option lets you set the time limit before Listen starts the next example.

IN MINUTES YOU REALIZE YOU ARE LEARNING TO HEAR THE STRUCTURE IN MUSIC.

You WAKEN TO THE UNDERSTANDING THAT YOUR MUSIC CAN GROW.

THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC BEGINS TO MEAN MORE TO YOU.

MUSIC’S INTRIGUING PATTERNS INVITE EXPLORATION.

“Does Listen really improve your ear? Positively!’
—Geary Yelton, Electronic Musician

“Listen can be recommended to anyone interested in honing their musical ability, from the novice or the dedicated amateur, to the pro who wants to brush up...!’
—Peter Mengaziol, MacUser

“...this inexpensive software alone could justify the cost of a Mac to the aspiring musician!’
—Kevin Walsh, MCS magazine

“...after a few minutes of practice, it is hard not to find the experience enjoyable!’
—Robert W. Placek, Music Educators Journal

Listen: $99 (SINGLE USER)

Listen Lab Pack: $249 (FIVE USERS)

Listen Lab Pack: $498 (TEN USERS)

Copyright © 1999, MIDI Classics®, Revised 2/10/99