iPhone & iPad
TonalPath for iOS
The course with optional microphone input and a built-in guitar for touch input.
App Store · Coming soonTonalPath
Ear training for musical memory.
A course of exercises for retaining, navigating, and reproducing melodic structures from memory. The material proceeds through progressively richer tonal contexts.
Applications
TonalPath applications
The exercises may be practised on iPhone, iPad, or a desktop computer. Responses may be given by voice, instrument, MIDI input where supported, or the built-in guitar.
macOS & desktop
TonalPath for desktop
The course for desktop computers, with keyboard, microphone, and supported MIDI input.
Desktop download · Coming soonPrinted course
A Tonal Path books
The exercises are issued in standard notation and guitar tablature.
Books and editions
Books
A Tonal Path
A Tonal Path, Volume 1 contains the Core Levels 1–7. Its exercises develop the ability to retain, navigate, and reproduce melodic structures from memory.
Each exercise is first heard and reproduced from memory. The notation may then be consulted for study and correction. The books are issued in notation and guitar-tab editions.
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The method
Retain
Hear the melodic structure and hold it in memory without recourse to notation.
Navigate
Establish the relations between its tones and follow its course internally.
Reproduce
Sing or play the structure from memory, returning to the beginning when necessary.
Course of study
The exercises and their order
The course begins with short phrases formed from small groups of tones. The phrases lengthen, and their tonal relations become more complex, as the student proceeds.
Privacy
Local processing of user practice input
TonalPath processes optional microphone and MIDI input on the device. It does not store or send raw microphone audio, MIDI input, or pitch-detection audio to TonalPath servers.