If you're looking for something similar you can install via your package manager, check out GNU Solfege.
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#32I really like this, for the most part (and apropos, since the first day of teaching ear-training for the semester is tomorrow!). You're probably randomly generating these, but I would strongly suggest incorporating some voice-leading and standard syntax into the examples. When it plays I-IV-V-I to establish the key, for example, it plays 3 root-position triads with parallel voice-leading: 5 - 1 - 2 - 5 3 - 6 - 7 - 3…
Also for the chord progression quiz, I kept trying to pick the first chord in the "chord 2" section. Perhaps this mistake would be made less if you show the inputs for chord 1 but have the first option selected and the inputs disabled.
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#33As someone who wants to do a basic self-study of music, this seems pretty awesome. Unfortnately, I don't know what I don't know. Can anyone link to readings or a course that would teach me the stuff this is quizzing?
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#34This is great, but would be even better if there was some way of logging in to save your progress! You're probably already working on it given what you write in your 'How to practice' page ;) but I'd love to have it track my progress and show a few basic charts. You could also gamify it a little bit (without doing too much) by adding a few achievements to unlock.
Edit: I like what http://10fastfingers.com/ does: really easy to get started, and an optional user account where you can see your progress (see http://10fastfingers.com/user/442112/ for mine)
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#35I bought the David Lucas Burge Perfect Pitch Ear Training course many years ago. It was a 12 or something CD package where he talks through the process of listening more and more deeply to notes with the ultimate goal of hearing the difference between a B and an F#.
I ultimately didn't make it. Sometimes I would think I heard the difference, others not. Not sure there is huge value to having perfect pitch, although it appears to exist as a real thing. Relative pitch skills, on the other hand, are very practical.
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#36As someone who wants to do a basic self-study of music, this seems pretty awesome. Unfortnately, I don't know what I don't know. Can anyone link to readings or a course that would teach me the stuff this is quizzing?
musictheory.net has some nice interactive tutorials (plus its own exercises).
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#37Impossible to see something like this and not recommend this guy's work: https://soundcloud.com/thesignatureseries SIMPLY AMAZING!