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Re: Ear Training Practice

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Post by trane_project »

LearnYouALisp wrote: post #89
trane_project wrote: post #85

I highly advice anyone against taking up this type of ear training practice if what they want is just to play music recreationally. I did it for a while, stressed out about it, and I saw very little improvement in what really mattered to me, which was just to be able to play music freely. If that is also your goal, you would be better served by learning how to play along recordings and use them to improvise along the…

You "wrote" a guide, yet it's in "generated_courses"? Interesting

It's related to this https://trane-project.github.io/generated_courses/transcript... which generates all the individual lessons for each stage in the guide. It has nothing to do with generative AI. The software is not really needed if you just want to jam along your own songs, I just didn't have a better place to put the guide.

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Post by aesthesia »

nostrademons wrote: post #32
epiccoleman wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have much experience reading musical notation? I've found that engineer types tend to immediately bristle at the weird parts of how notes are named because the system seems really kludgy until you realize that there's actually a utility in the weirdness - namely, that scale patterns look roughly similar in any given key and so sight reading is counterintuitively easier with the current system than it would be…

There's also a huge amount of math behind music that is fascinating. The first-approximation engineer realization about music (which I suspect the GP is going off of) is "okay, there are 12 notes in the chromatic scale, each octave doubles frequency, therefore the frequency ratio between two adjacent notes is the 12th root of 2 and we should just have 12 names for the notes". This is what's called an "equal-tempered…

Using only 3/2 ratios can sound pretty bad in just intonation as well. Major thirds tuned to 81/64 are off (by a ratio of 81/80) compared with the standard 5/4 tuning, and they don't sound great. This difference is called the syntonic comma and it's been a major issue in the history of tuning.

Re: Ear Training Practice

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Post by aesthesia »

I appreciate the extremely low fuss interface, but I'm always a little disappointed by chord progression ear training that just plays triads one after another with no thought for voice leading. Generating a nice voice leading for an arbitrary chord progression is a little tricky to do automatically but far from impossible, and might be a fun exercise either for you or your favorite LLM.

Re: Ear Training Practice

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Post by gbro3n »

smeej wrote: post #7
vunderba wrote: post #2

These are all good exercises that help you build a solid foundation, but they can sometimes cause motivation to dip being somewhat clinical in nature. So what I usually do is compile a list of melodic hooks from popular songs my students enjoy. Every so often, we’ll play them and let the student try to pick them out on the piano or their instrument of choice. I find that the satisfaction they get from being able to r…

Just testing out practice mode, I found what I really wanted was to be able to stay at a certain level until I felt I was getting good at sequences of that length, not immediately get pushed to the next level every time even when it took me 8 tries to get the 4-note sequence right. Give me a chance to feel like I'm improving! Don't just keep giving me harder things when I keep struggling with the existing ones.

For https://www.asmusictheory.com, I built in a spaced repetition test section to aid memory retention, along with "a free play" mode for when you just want to explore.

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Post by bifftastic »

One comment - the perfect pitch exercise becomes a relative pitch exercise as soon as you get one note right. I don't believe I have perfect pitch but I got 100% on the quiz I just did.

Re: Ear Training Practice

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Post by treme »

gbro3n wrote: post #96
smeej wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just testing out practice mode, I found what I really wanted was to be able to stay at a certain level until I felt I was getting good at sequences of that length, not immediately get pushed to the next level every time even when it took me 8 tries to get the 4-note sequence right. Give me a chance to feel like I'm improving! Don't just keep giving me harder things when I keep struggling with the existing ones.

For https://www.asmusictheory.com , I built in a spaced repetition test section to aid memory retention, along with "a free play" mode for when you just want to explore.

looks fantastic, just what I was looking for. will try, tyvm

Re: Ear Training Practice

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Post by ____tom____ »

gbro3n wrote: post #96
smeej wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just testing out practice mode, I found what I really wanted was to be able to stay at a certain level until I felt I was getting good at sequences of that length, not immediately get pushed to the next level every time even when it took me 8 tries to get the 4-note sequence right. Give me a chance to feel like I'm improving! Don't just keep giving me harder things when I keep struggling with the existing ones.

For https://www.asmusictheory.com , I built in a spaced repetition test section to aid memory retention, along with "a free play" mode for when you just want to explore.

No sound on an iPhone. They keyboard visually responds.

Tried safari and Firefox focus

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