- Our Apps: Tools to Enhance Your Ear and Technique
- Storm Studios Apps: Practical Musical Training
- Free Apps for Android or within the Website
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At Storm Studios Learning, we believe technology can be a powerful ally on your path to becoming a “Musical Being”. That’s why we’ve developed a suite of practical applications specifically designed to complement our methodology and accelerate your auditory and technical development in a focused and efficient way.
Our Philosophy: Professional Tools, Free Access
Following our commitment to making high-level training accessible, we offer these applications free of charge. They are tools based on the principles of our method, including the multi-timbre training (using Cello, French Horn, Choir, Strings, and Piano) that I consider fundamental and rarely found in other apps.
The idea is simple: you use the apps to practice and reinforce key skills autonomously. To get the most out of them and understand the complete methodology behind each exercise, we have prepared a detailed manual, which will be available for purchase as a Kindle e-book (one-time payment). This manual is your guide to effectively integrating the apps into your study and thoroughly understanding the concepts you’re working on.
Availability:
Currently, our apps are available for Android devices. We are actively exploring the possibility of offering web versions of some of these tools directly here on the site, leveraging the fact that part of their initial development was done in Python. Stay tuned for future updates!
Our App Suite:
Here are the tools we’ve created for you:
- App: Desglose (Auditory Analysis / Breakdown)
- Purpose: Develop the ability to hear and isolate individual notes within complex chords or textures (“opening the ear”).
- Task: The app plays 2 to 5 simultaneous notes (with 5 different timbres). Your goal is to sing each note you hear.
- Features: Adjustable difficulty (from 2 notes), selectable note range (C2-C7).
- App: Interval Recognition (Relative Pitch)
- Purpose: Train the recognition of relative distances between notes (intervals).
- Task: Identify the intervals played by the app.
- Features: Multi-timbre (5 timbres), progressive levels (fifths to major sevenths).
- App: Interval Singing (Relative Pitch)
- Purpose: Reinforce the understanding and accurate production of intervals.
- Task: Sing the interval requested by the app.
- Features: Progressive levels (fifths to major sevenths).
- App: Chord Recognition (Harmony / Relative Pitch)
- Purpose: Train the ability to identify chords and their harmonic qualities.
- Task: Recognize the chords played by the app.
- Features: Multi-timbre (5 timbres), selectable range, progressive difficulty with selectable chord types (from 5ths up to complex 13th chords).
- Apps: Scale Degrees (Major and Minor) (Relative Pitch / Tonal Function)
- Purpose: Develop the perception of the tonal function of each note within a key.
- Task: Recognize diatonic (and chromatic) degrees in major and minor contexts.
- Features: Two separate apps (Major Degrees, Minor Degrees).
- Apps: Absolute Pitch (General and Classical Guitar)
- Purpose: Train the ability to recognize specific notes without reference (absolute pitch).
- Task: Identify the individual notes played by the app.
- Features: General multi-timbre app (5 timbres) and a specialized app with Classical Guitar timbre.
Integration with Your Practice:
These apps are not a replacement for deep study, but a powerful complement. Use them regularly to reinforce concepts from the Harmony Course, prepare your ear for the Lessons / Workshop, and put into practice the principles described in The Musical Beings. They are a key piece in developing the essential auditory skills of every “Musical Being”.
Access the Tools:
- [Link/Instructions to download Apps on Android – e.g., “Search ‘Storm Studios Learning’ on Google Play”]
- [Link to buy the Manual on Kindle – e.g., “Get the Complete Manual Here”]
- (Coming Soon: Access to selected web versions)
Start training your ear today with the tools from Storm Studios Learning!