Big Ear – Saxophone Ear Training
(Intermediate)
-Feel lost without sheet music? Reading music is very important, but it’s equally important to develop your ear in playing saxophone. A better ear will help you take better solos and be able to learn all sorts of music that would have only been available through written music without this ability. Don’t stay handcuffed to sheet music!
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For ear training, this is a very helpful tool.
Transcribe for Windows
Transcribe for Mac
Transcribe helps to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both. It doesn’t do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialized player program which is optimized for the purpose of transcription. It has many transcription-specific features not found on conventional music players.
It is also used by many people for play-along practice. It can change pitch and speed instantly, and you can store and recall any number of named loops.
Apps
Just got this one, called ‘Goodear Trainer Pro’
You can work on intervals, melodies, chords, and scales. What I really like is that you can input thing using a piano keyboard interface, which feels a lot more like actually using a real instrument.
I have a few of the ‘New Real Books’ – Volumes 1 and 2, they’re pretty good. Unlike the older ‘real book’ which has quite a few mistakes.
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