Music lessons for everyone: Earz teaches you to read musical notes to understand music theory and to identify basic musical principles by listening (high/low long/short and loud/soft) instruments rhythm intervals chords and scales.
Earz provides no explanations; you learn by answering audio questions.
The app is suitable for everyone; from beginners to professionals (solfège) for young and old and it operates as a game (with several levels highscores etc.).

Want to do a free trial of Earz first? Download ‘Earz’ (not the Solo version) and log in by choosing ‘demo’.

Earz contains the following ‘modules’:
• tones (identifying basic musical principles by listening - high/low long/short and loud/soft)
• instruments (identifying by listening)
• reading notes (locate notes on a staff)
• rhythm (rhythmic dictation)
• intervals (identifying by listening)
• chords (identifying by listening)
• scales (identifying by listening)
• theory (answering questions)

Tones:
You will hear a series of ‘tones’ and subsequently see 3 (color-coded) series from which you must choose the correct one.
-rendering: graphic and staff notation
-number of elements: 2-6
Content:
-soft and loud
-short and long
-low and high

Instruments:
You will hear a fragment played by one or multiple instruments and subsequently see 3 names of instruments from which you must choose the correct one.
-string instruments: acoustic guitar bass guitar double bass electric guitar harp lute mandolin
-woodwind instruments: bass clarinet bassoon clarinet flute oboe piccolo recorder saxophone
-brass instruments: flügelhorn French horn trombone trumpet tuba
-bowed instruments: cello double bass viola violin
-keyboard instruments: accordion electric piano electronic organ harpsichord keyboard piano pipe organ
-percussion instruments: chimes congas cymbal(s) drum set glockenspiel gong snare drum tambourine ---timpani triangle xylophone
-world music instruments: banjo harmonica koto panpipes saz sitar
-vocals: female voice female-voice choir male voice male-voice choir mixed-voice choir
-ensembles: brass players woodwind players strings

Reading notes:
You will see a note move from left to right on a staff and must click the corresponding ‘letter’ within the time limit.
-movement speed of note: slow medium or fast
-key: G and F
-key signatures: minimum 0 maximum 7 sharps and flats
-key signatures as well as accidentals

Rhythm:
You will hear a rhythmic fragment. The correct note picture must be achieved by dragging the rhyhtmic elements to the right place.
-tempo: slow medium fast
-number of elements: minimum 4 maximum 8
-meter: 4/4 12/8 or both

Intervals:
You will hear an interval and must choose the correct one from 2 or 3 possible answers.
Content:
Everything from perfect unison to augmented eleventh

Chords:
You will hear a chord and must choose the correct one from 2 or 3 possible answers.
Content:
major triad minor triad augmented triad diminished triad major flat-fifth triad suspended second chord suspended fourth chord major seventh chord minor seventh chord minor-triad major-seventh chord diminished seventh chord dominant seventh chord with flat fifth half-diminished seventh chord major sixth chord minor sixth chord.

Scales:
You will hear a scale and must choose the correct one from 2 or 3 possible answers.
Content:
major (natural) minor harmonic minor melodic minor chromatic whole tone pentatonic minor blues gypsy major gypsy minor Dorian Phrygian Lydian Myxolydian Locrian.

Theory:
You must answer a question by choosing the correct one from 2 or 3 possible answers.
note names
rest names
note values
rest values
meter
dynamics
tempo markings
keys
intervals
articulation
expression marks
words and abbreviations
Italian terms
English terms
polyrhythms
embellishments
symbols
chords (words)
chords (symbols)