Better Ears 2.0

Better Ears is a Mac utility that was created for beginners and professional musical artists who wish to improve their chord recognition skills.

This application comes as an alternative to hiring a trainer and helps you study and test your skills from the comfort of your home without paying large amounts of money.

The program lets you choose between 4 difficulty levels, provides you with plenty of lessons, and gives you access to various types of exercises. Furthermore, it can use sounds that were created using acoustic grand pianos, rock organs, flutes, jazz electric guitars, and many others.

Better Ears is very intuitive, comes with easy-to-configure exercise settings, and gives you access to a comprehensive help manual. What's more, it offers you the ability to create your own exercises. Simply go to the Preferences panel of the app and add the preferred exercises to your lesson.

Another important advantage is that you can sync your custom exercises, preferences, and statistics with your Dropbox account.

To sum things up, you should definitely give this utility a try if you're a musical artist.