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Ear training that listens to them sing
One of the ear-training games asks a student to sing back what they hear, and reads the pitch of their voice to show them how close they got.
What it means in practice
- Singing is the shortest route to hearingA player who can sing an interval can find it on the instrument. One who cannot is guessing.
- It happens on the deviceThe pitch is read in the moment, in the app, on that phone.
- Nothing is recordedNo audio is saved. There is no file, and nothing to delete.
- Nothing is sentNo audio or result leaves the device, because there is nowhere for it to go.
- It is the only part that listens at allAnd it listens to a student singing a pitch on purpose — never to a room.
Why it matters
Ear training is the part of musicianship most often postponed and most reliably regretted, largely because it is hard to practise alone without feedback.
A microphone makes that feedback possible — and because parents will reasonably ask what a microphone is doing, it is worth being precise about how narrow its job is.
Frequently asked
Does The Whole Horn have ear training?One of the ear-training games asks a student to sing back what they hear, and reads the pitch of their voice to show them how close they got.
It listens to a student singing a pitch, in the moment, and then it forgets.
One honest note
This is the only feature that uses the microphone. It does not assess instrument playing, and nothing it hears is stored or transmitted.