Ear Training Resources Roundup

"Ear Training" is the concept of learning to recognize and identify specific pitches and relationships between pitches just by listening to them. As you can imagine, this skill is incredibly important to build when learning to play the theremin. With other instruments, such as the piano, each key corresponds to a specific note. You know that if the piano is in tune, then hitting the middle "C" key will always produce that tone. With the theremin, you have no physical reference point for any notes! So learning to recognize pitches and (perhaps more importantly) intervals is critical to successful melodic theremin playing.

To help you get started with ear training, we've put together a roundup of ear training resources on the Internet. Note, I have not tried all of these resources myself, so please let me know if you have feedback on any of them.

Ear Training Websites

These sites offer online tools for ear training. Many of them are completely free!

Good Ear - Free online ear training exercises.
Berklee College of Music Ear Training Department Website - A list of ear training resources used by the school with online examples and reference notes.

Ear Training Software

Ear Master 5 - Windows software for ear training. Downloadable demo available.
Magic Ear Trainer - $20 Windows software that lets you focus on specific intervals or "difficult" intervals
Harmony Central Ear Training Software List - A huge list of ear training software at HarmonyCentral.com.
GNU Solfege - open source ear training software (Linux, Mac, Windows)
miniMusic - Ear training software for Palm devices