ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6-8 Negative Reviews

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6-8 App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6-8 app received 21 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6-8? Can you share your negative thoughts about abrsm aural trainer grades 6-8?

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6-8 for Negative User Reviews

✓ Useful but restricted...I do find this useful - I find aural very hard - and I use both this one and the Grade 1 - Grade 5 version. I am making most use of the moment of Grade 8 because of what I will hope will be my next exam. Why only 3 stars? I only seem these days to get a very small number of examples - only about 4 or 5 in 8a for example - which the program constantly recycles. The questions are taken from the various printed volumes of aural tests and so I think there should be a lot more..Crock100Version: 1.6.1

✓ AverageWell laid out. Good for sight singing and melodic repetition. As for the musical features question it is not very useful and it makes you choose one of an option of answers - I would prefer a list to learn on another section of the app just like the cadence trainer. With sight singing and melodic repetition it just repeats the same five or six questions and occasionally you get a new one. When a repeated one appears, there is no option to skip which is annoying. Still worth the money but I would prefer more questions and better musical features and rythmic repetition section..Finnnn_wVersion: 1.3

✓ HorrendousAbsolutely ridiculous. For grade 8 chords, the “correct” answer is obviously wrong, using the piano to compare chord and what is said to be right.233473297Version: 1.6

✓ Not good for cadencesI bought this two years ago, so the newer version may be better. I spent hours trying to hear the chords of a cadence. Despite selecting grade 7 in the menu it kept presenting Plagal cadences (not used at this grade), and worse still re-presenting them endlessly when I got them wrong or tried to avoid those examples. I was completely undermined and a nervous wreck until I found some good training on youtube, where hearing the whole phrase as in the exam (and not just 2chords as on this app) made all the difference. Don’t beat yourself up - look online for excellent and free tuition and testing..SsaallyyAannnnVersion: 2.0

✓ Help2 technical bugs 1, will not work with blutooth speaker - only uses internal speakers 2, and the more serious one: I have this on my iPad but it will not download to my iPhone (signed in to store on same account) without me paying again... sort quickly please!.Pianoman2100Version: 1.6.1

✓ Useful but needs improvementThe app is definitely a useful tool for practicing and preparing for aural exams. However, the app itself needs improvement. Wireless headphones will not work no matter how many times I try, even though headphones are apparently “recommended”. When reviewing my responses I find myself accidentally clicking back to the Home Screen, and I cannot see how well I did. Needs a lot of work, especially considering how pricey the app is..FireLight4137Version: 2.0

✓ Helpful but…Super helpful for Abrsm exams! However for multi part questions, the results are given by a simple tick or cross for each section, where a tick is only given if 100% correct. This has been quite disheartening for my child as he is shown a full slate of crosses despite the breakdown suggesting he would have picked up most of the marks. Would be great if this scoring system could be reworked to more accurately reflect the scoring system in the exams, thanks!.PokémonDragalge91914Version: 2.0

✓ DisappointedRepetitive & you need to ‘mark your own’ in some testing areas..McLouyVersion: 2.1

✓ Cadence trainer needs workI found this app somewhat helpful for training cadences but it seems that only a few of the selection ever come up. After a long time of practice the I-V, V-VI, V-1 and IV-I were the only ones to ever come up. I would also suggest that cadences weren’t always in the same key as it is very easy to get used to them..FJLB.Version: 1.6.1

✓ It doesnt helpMy sister has used the first one for grade 1 piano and grade 3 flute, and according to her, that one helps a lot. This one, however, keeps giving me a mental breakdown. If i get something wrong, i like to quit it. I know how stupid that is, but its how im wired. But if i get it slightly wrong, the progress doesnt move, and with only 9 days before my grade 6 exam, with my dad putting so much pressure on me, sucking at sight-reading, and not getting enough help on my aural tests, I know im going to fail..Yup peepsVersion: 2.0

✓ Same few tunes over and over againIn the grade 7 sight singing it sets the same 3-4 tunes each time. There's no way to tell it "I've had this one 5 times already, I remember perfectly now, it so give me a different one" presumably because there aren't any different ones recorded. It also will not connect to my Bluetooth speaker despite every other app being able to do so, so I have to listen through my phone's speakers. Not good..VrstVersion: 1.6

✓ Not enough examples make this very poor valueOnly a handful of each test is really not good enough. How can you justify the cost? What use is it for practice if you can only use it a couple of times? We all get ripped off enough by ABRSM as it is. Not impressed..Omo13Version: 1.6.2

✓ Annoying design and incorrect gradingThis app is really helpful, but i get really frustrated when I accidentally click the back button when checking my answers and it takes me back to the menu page and I can no longer see what the answers were. There is no way of looking back and I often have no idea what I got wrong due to this. Also ocxasions where it says i’ve got the answer wrong but then has a tick next to the answer i put. Very frustrating.NoiwouldnotrecommendVersion: 2.0

✓ RUBBISHSays 2/4 is 3/4 - clearly not. Says imperfect is perfect! ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH! I recommend deleting it..MrBloboblobVersion: 1.6

✓ Does not work with headphonesThis app will not work with airpods/earphones. Shame, as I bought it to test myself on cadences and modulations on the commute to work..R.....W...H5384Version: 2.0

✓ Useful but glitchyI am a mature student using the app to revise for my grade 7 piano exam; generally it is helpful but there are a number of glitches, particularly in the Cadence and Musical Features section. The same piece kept being repeated in the Cadence section while the app has a tendency to quit halfway through the Musical Features section. As others have said, for such a pricey app, this is not great. I would also agree with the reviewer who complained that answers are marked wrong when they were partly correct eg. 2 out of 3 features were correctly identified..Fieldfare GirlVersion: 2.1

✓ ABRSM AURAL TRAINER 6-8Great app but family sharing is a nightmare. Have already had to buy the app 3 times as it keeps failing to share to my kids phones. Also beware not to “upgrade to full version” from within the “lite version” as this can’t be shared for some reason either..NicNack1972Version: 1.6.1

✓ Lost my sight singing progress and other issuesI am trying to practice the melodic repetition questions, and when I get through to the ‘listen back to your attempt’ page and click on one of the options, I instead get directed to the sight reading I tried previously. Also the app seems to have lost all of my sight singing progress since the last update and it now looks like I have made no sight singing attempts. Not very impressed at all..Singer_kVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Sight singing grade 6-8How do you check that you pitched the right note after the exercise apart from playing back what you’ve sung? I am unable to find that option. Please help..SarahnyakiVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Nice idea, bit useless ...Unfortunately most of the samples (maybe all?) are just taken from the ABRSM aural training book. So I paid £8 for something I already had. Also the app sound only comes out of the i phone rather than my headphones, so can’t use on the train which is what I bought it for. All in all, fairly useless if you’ve got the book/ want to hear it..Frazzz15Version: 1.6.2

✓ So few levelsOnly 20-25 levels to complete.880088Version: 1.6

ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6-8 works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or contact ABRSM Aural Trainer Grades 6-8.