Programs created by other software companies often play single intervals, single chords, and possibly other randomly generated musical materials. My main objective in writing the software that is now available from Musical Hearing was to provide valid musical materials and larger musical contexts in which to learn.
Inner hearing plays complete melodies.
It is my opinion that these musical materials are far more interesting than those of other Ear Training Programs. It is worth the time it takes to learn one of Beethoven's melodies. It is not, in my opinion, worth the time to learn a totally abstract randomly generated melody. My background is that of a College Ear Training and Harmony teacher. The central core of the way I teach music was learned during a 1975-76 Ford Foundation Fellowship program to study in Hungary.