Resolve: Reactive Ear Training
🇯🇵 JP LocalizedDescription
Resolve is a powerful ear training system, developed by Tom Quayle and David Beebee, combining a structured video course with a custom practice tool. The course and practice tool are designed to work together: the videos explain the concepts and exercises, while the practice tool generates the harmonic material you use to train your ear on your instrument. Reactive Ear Training focuses on developing a direct connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. Resolve generates random, non-functional chord voicings for you to react to by playing over each chord using the exercises taught in the inlcuded course. The Harmonic Complexity Slider lets you tailor the sounds to your ability, from simpler, more consonant voicings at lower settings to increasingly complex and dissonant sounds at higher settings. Practicing this way strengthens the connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. Over time, this develops stronger musical instincts and a deeper, intuitive understanding of harmony that maps directly to your instrument and translates to real musical situations. Key Features ‣ Created by Tom Quayle and David Beebee Resolve was developed as a complete Reactive Ear Training system, combining a structured video course with a practice tool designed to work together. ‣ Integrated Video Course and Practice Tool The course explains the method and demonstrates the exercises, while the practice tool generates the harmonic material you react to on your instrument. ‣ Random Harmonic Voicings Generate non-functional chord voicings to react to in real time. This approach strengthens the connection between your ear, your fingers, and your instrument. ‣ Harmonic Complexity Slider Tailor the sounds to your ability, from simpler, more consonant voicings at lower settings to increasingly complex and dissonant sounds at higher settings. ‣ Train Real Musical Instincts Resolve is designed to be used without naming or labelling chords, scales, or intervals. By focusing purely on sound, you learn to respond directly on your instrument. With some familiarity of major and minor sounds, you can begin immediately. ‣ Complements Functional Ear Training Designed to support your ongoing study of harmony, scales, chords, and functional ear training. ‣ Designed for Use With Your Instrument Built for active playing, helping connect what you hear directly to movement on your instrument. Resolve works for: ‣ Guitarists ‣ Bassists ‣ Pianists ‣ Any instrumentalist developing their ear Whether you’re improvising, composing, or learning music by ear, Resolve – Reactive Ear Training helps you develop faster and more reliable musical instincts.
What's New
- Clearing downloaded exercise videos now updates the course screen right away — the download buttons reappear without needing to restart the app, and tapping them re-downloads the videos with visible progress. - Fixed a case where a video whose files were no longer on the device could open to a black screen that required force-closing the app. Playback now shows a message and offers to download the video again.
Details
- Developer
- Trio Software Ltd
- Main Category
- Music
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Version Release
- 2026-06-12
- Initial Release
- 2026-05-13
- Size
- 89 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 17.99
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- app.solotrainer.reactive
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.25 (4)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-06-14
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User Reviews
When I try downloading the method exercises it fails and says “download decoding failed”
Whether you’re trying to do as the app is intended for and practice playing over chords on reaction, or you just want to practice some exotic scales over appropriate chords, this app is an easy to use, fantastic practice tool. I’d give it 5/5 with just a few strangely missing features: the gap of time between chords is far too long, and there should absolutely be a setting to adjust this. You can already control how long a chord is played for, but not how long the space is before the next chord breaks the silence. Additionally, 5 seconds is still a really long time to wait if you’re a more advanced player and you’d like to practice over fast, practical changes. I’d love to see an update that allows fast, gapless chord changes, perhaps with some simple drum loops as an option as well. Basically an endless, random backing track. Overall loving this app and hope to see more features added!
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