Functional Ear Trainer for Android

Learn to play music by ear with Functional Ear Trainer

Functional Ear Trainer is an ear-training tool built on the approach developed by Alain Benbassat. It focuses on helping you hear and recognize the individual pitches in a scale so you can identify intervals and reproduce melodies without written notation.

Core skills you'll develop

• Recreate short melodies from listening alone — practice turning sounds into playable notes.
• Discern intervals reliably so you can name relationships between notes.
• Distinguish scale degrees and pitch placement within a key.

How the method helps

Benbassat’s technique breaks pitch recognition into manageable stages. By training relative pitch against a fixed reference tone and progressively increasing complexity, you build an internal map of where each scale degree sits. The exercises are structured, repeatable, and intentionally simple so progress is steady.

Who should use it

This approach works well for beginners who need a clear, step-by-step path into ear training, and for intermediate players wanting to sharpen interval recognition and transcription skills. It’s practical for singers, instrumentalists, and anyone who wants to learn to play songs by ear.

Extra resources (free)

• IIT JEE / NEET Prep App — Free
• Doubtnut (NCERT solutions) — Free

Quick encouragement

Learning to identify intervals and play tunes by ear is very achievable. With regular practice using the method above, you’ll find it much easier to hear notes, name intervals, and reproduce songs without relying on sheet music.