It is based on the RCM (Royal Conservatory of Music) at Canada and Music Development Program at USA Grade 1-10 Ear Test/Aural Test syllabus. More than 1,600 questions are provided in AURALBOOK for RCM. All questions are newly designed. All questions are based on the requirement of official RCM syllabus.
 
It is an all-in-one app which can help students to practice the required subject in from grade 1-10. Student can select the examination grade that he/she is going to take and the questions for that selected grade will be provided.
 
 
Grade selection
 
Music instrument selection
 
Playing: Play a melody
 
Clapping: Clap a rhythm
 
Interval: Sing and identify an interval
 
Chord: Recognize position of major triad
 
Cadence: Identify cadence
 
Playing: Play upper or lower of two part phrases
 
Record review
 
Strength, weakness and trend analysis
 
Connecting to Teachers
 
Sharing with Parents
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Student can select the examination grade that he/she is going to take. AURALBOOK will then be forwarded to the main menu of the selected grade.
 
Student can change to the examination grade selection at any time. If student has practiced with all questions of the selected grade, he/she can choose the next grade to have a challenge.
 
 
 
 
 
User can also select music instrument. 12 instruments in provided in the current version, including:
 
Piano, Violin, Flute, Clarinet, Euphonium (Bass), Euphonium (Tenor), Guitar, Percussion, Trombone, and Trumpet
 
For those transposing instrument, the App will change the key automatically without further instruction by users. This let user enjoy the learning in a much easier way.
 
    
 
 
 
   
 
 
(Available in Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8)
 
AURALBOOK will play a phrase twice. The scale of music will be adjusted automatically for transposing instrument. User can play with his/her music instrument afterward. AURALBOOK will record and analyze the performance of user.
 
AURALBOOK will then play the original phrase with the music score shown on the screen. Afterward, it will play the recorded user’s playing with music score shown on the screen. The music score of the original phrase and music score of user’s playing are shown on the same line so that user can understand the difference between them in the most straight forward way. Even user cannot distinguish the different between them by ear, user must can understand the difference by this patented user playing performance display system.
 
The patented artificial intelligence analysis system will point out whether user has played correctly and suggested comments for improvement. For example, it will point out
 
-   User has missed any note.
-   User has played extra note.
-   The scale of the piece played by user is different from the one of original phrase.
 
Further, AURALBOOK will analyze the speed of user’s playing and check whether it is the same as the one of the original phrase. It will also tell whether the playing method is good or not, e.g. whether user often plays in a sliding way.
 
 
 
 
 
(Available in Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7)
 
AURALBOOK will play a melody. User can clap after AURALBOOK has played the phrase twice. AURALBOOK will record and analyze the clapping of user.
 
AURALBOOK will then play the original phrase with the rhythm score shown on the screen. Afterward, it will play the recorded user’s clapping with rhythm score shown on the screen. The rhythm score of the original phrase and rhythm score of user’s clapping are shown on the same line so that user can understand the difference between them in the most straight forward way. Even user cannot distinguish the different between them by ear, user must can understand the difference by this patented user singing performance display system.
 
The patented artificial intelligence analysis system will point out whether user has clapped correctly and suggested comments for improvement. For example, it will point out
 
-   User has missed any beat.
-   User has clapped extra beat.
 
Further, AURALBOOK will analyze the speed of user’s clapping and check whether it is the same as the one of the original phrase.
 
    
 
 
 
   
 
 
(Available in Grade 8, 9 and 10)
 
AURALBOOK will first play the tonic chord of a short piece. User is required to identify the cadence after AURALBOOK plays the short piece once.
 
Based on the requirement of the syllabus of different grades, various answer (including perfect, imperfect, plagal, interrupted) can be chosen.
 
AURALBOOK will then tell whether the answer is correct. A detail explanation will be told if user cannot select a correct answer. The short piece will be played again so that user can understand how to recognize a cadence
 
 
 
(Available in Grade 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10)
 
User can choose to sing or identify a chord.
 
If user chooses identification, AURALBOOK will play an interval and user can choose the correct answer
 
If user chooses singing, AURALBOOK will play an interval and user can sing the interval afterward. AURALBOOK will record and analyze the singing of user.
User needs to identify the interval after singing.
 
AURALBOOK will then play the interval again with the music score shown on the screen. Afterward, it will play the recorded user’s singing with music score shown on the screen. The music score of the interval and music score of user’s singing are shown on the same line so that user can understand the difference between them in the most straight forward way. Even user cannot distinguish the different between them by ear, user must can understand the difference by this patented user singing performance display system.
 
The patented artificial intelligence analysis system will point out whether user has sung correctly and suggested comments for improvement.
 
Last, AURALBOOK will let user know whether the selected interval is the correct one.
 
    
   
 
 
   
 
 
(Available in Grade 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10)
 
User will be asked to identify the position of triad played by AURALBOOK.
 
The triad played can be any major triad. The position can be either in root position or an inversion, within the limits of an octave.
 
AURALBOOK will tell user whether the selection is correct or not. The triad will be played again if the answer is wrong so that user can learn how to recognize the position of a triad.
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Available in Grade 9 and 10)
 
AURALBOOK will first tell the user to play the upper part or lower part of a two-part phrases. User can play after AURALBOOK has played the phrase twice. AURALBOOK will record and analyze the performance of user.
 
AURALBOOK will then play the original upper or lower phrase with the music score shown on the screen. Afterward, it will play the recorded user’s performance with music score shown on the screen. The music score of the original phrase and music score of user’s performance are shown on the same line so that user can understand the difference between them in the most straight forward way. Even user cannot distinguish the different between them by ear, user must can understand the difference by this patented user singing performance display system.
 
The patented artificial intelligence analysis system will point out whether user has played correctly and suggested comments for improvement. For example, it will point out
 
-   User has missed any note.
-   User has played extra note.
-   The scale of the piece played by user is different from the one of original phrase.
-   User has played the incorrect part of the two-part phrases.
 
Further, AURALBOOK will analyze the speed of user’s performance and check whether it is the same as the one of the original phrase. It will also tell whether the playing method is good or not, e.g. whether user often plays in a sliding way.
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Instead of answering question assigned automatically, user can also select one of the questions available and repeat trying it for unlimited time. User can select the question number in the record page and the selected question will be asked again.
 
User can also view the performance of each question. User can select those questions with worse performance to practice again in order to enhance the aural skills.
 
    
 
 
    
With our advance cloud-computing services, users can retrieve their own records, progress and macro analysis results so that users can understand their strength and weakness. Users can practice more at the part or type of questions which they need improvement.
 
Users can login at the login bar at the left hand side of website. Users can have overview about their performance, overall performance and suggested comments which are based on results of all questions tried by users.
 
Users can view the result of each question taken by clicking in the page of different part. For singing and clapping part, users can even listen again about the recording of the clapping and singing.
 
 
 
With authorization by users, users can share their training records and progress with their teachers, so that teacher can understand the progress when user practices out of the classroom or music room and provide targeted training for students.
 
Users can authorize teachers by stating email of teacher in the setup page of AURALBOOK.
 
Teachers can view the progress of students through our another product, “TEACHERBOOK”. After login, teacher can see a list of students who have authorized teacher and teacher can view the record of students in the list one by one.
 
    
 
 
    
With authorization by users, users can also share their training records and progress with their parents so that parent can understand the progress of students.
 
Users can authorize parents by setting “Access Code” in the setup page of AURALBOOK and sending the “Access Code” to their parents.