Hear
Identify intervals, scales, chords, and fine pitch differences without leaning on notation.
ListeningIndependent by design. Grounded in experience.
Aubel was created by musician, educator, and developer Euan Maley.
Euan studied music education at the University of Georgia and is a Georgia-certified music educator. He is a percussionist, arranger, and show designer whose work and experience include the Madison County High School marching band, Lambert Indoor Percussion, the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps, and Atlanta Quest.
Part of Aubel's purpose is personal. Euan wanted to help musicians like him succeed in aural skills, but that ambition was never the platform's sole purpose. Aubel grew into something broader: a more consistent, connected way to develop complete musicianship, built with the students he teaches in mind.
Read Euan's reflection →Complete musicianship deserves focused practice.
Aubel is a training system for the perceptual side of musicianship: hearing, reading, creating, and tuning music quickly enough to use it.
The part of music lessons leave between the lines.
In most musical training, technique and theory run ahead of perception. Students can play what is on the page long before they can hear what is in the air. They can spell a chord they cannot recognize, and read a rhythm they cannot take down by ear.
Everyone agrees those skills matter. Almost no one gives them consistent, focused practice. The gap appears later when a musician cannot pick up a tune without a piano, anticipate a chord change, or hear when an ensemble note has stopped agreeing with the sound around it.
Aubel exists to close that gap. It does not replace lessons, ensembles, repertoire, or a theory curriculum. It strengthens the perception underneath them.
TechniqueDaily repetitions
RepertoireScheduled rehearsal
PerceptionUsually the leftovers
A trained ear shrinks the distance between what you imagine and what you play.
One musical idea. More than one way to know it.
Short drills build recognition from several directions, then repeat often enough to become useful outside the app.
Read
Recognize notes, key signatures, intervals, scales, and chords directly on the staff.
NotationCreate
Use dictation and construction exercises to make musical material from a prompt.
DictationTune
Train pitch discrimination and adjust notes against a reference.
Intonation The system direction
Hear and Read are available now. Create is entering through rhythmic and melodic dictation. Tune begins with pitch discrimination and expands into hands-on tuning against a sustained reference.
The product is held to five commitments.
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Educational honesty
Aubel only claims what it can support. Outcomes that have not been measured are not advertised.
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Fair access
Free to begin, pay what you want for personal use, and no subscription. Musicians can experience the training before deciding what it is worth to them.
- 03
Respectful motivation
Streaks, leagues, and habit tools are designed to make practice easier to begin, never to manufacture anxiety or guilt.
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Craft
Sound, notation, data, and interface details receive the same care a musician brings to an instrument.
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Privacy
No ads. No data sold. Practice data exists only to help students and teachers understand progress.
Every message reaches a person.
Support and bug reports go through the support page. Educators and schools can start at Aubel for educators or email aubelapp@gmail.com.