Free · no microphone · nothing leaves the phone
Higher or lower?
Mika plays two tones. Was the second one higher or lower? The more you get right, the closer the tones creep together.
I hear every tone. The squirrel's first.Can you hear where the tone goes?
Turn the phone's sound up; headphones are even better. On an iPhone the silent switch mutes the tones.
How to play
Tap “Let's go”. Mika plays one tone and then another right after it. If the second one went up, tap “Higher”; if it went down, tap “Lower”. At first the tones are far apart, like a big jump. Every time you're right, they move a little closer together. If you miss, Mika makes the jump bigger again. The game never ends; you just stop when you feel like it.
Every right answer puts its two tones into your tune. After four right answers, Mika plays it for you, and you can take it into Brumm Kids, where a marimba plays it over a beat and you can sing along.
High and low: what does that mean?
A high tone sounds like a bird, a low one like a bear. Whether one tone is higher or lower than another is something you hear in every song: the melody climbs up and down. Children who hear it find singing and playing an instrument easier later on.
For parents
A listening game for one child from about five, a few minutes at a time. The microphone stays off; the phone makes the tones itself. There are no points, no leaderboard and no comparing with other children, and a wrong answer isn't a mistake: the tones just get easier again. Nothing is saved or sent, and there's no account. Small differences are easiest to hear with headphones in a quiet room.