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ToneGym
Jan 23, 07:11 in ToneGym Official
Keyboard for Harmony: Must-have or Optional?
Question: You need a keyboard to truly understand harmony: overrated or essential tool?

🎹 Some musicians swear a keyboard is the fastest way to see harmony. Others say you can understand harmony deeply without ever touching one.

What’s been true in your experience: overrated, or an essential learning tool?
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AL DO
Jan 23, 13:34
In fact, the decision to play the keyboard or not stems from music is intended for being played by humans. Indeed, if you analyse european composers from centuries, you see that the majority of their products is piano friendly (except for those who have very very big hands ;-) ). Eveyone could imagine anything but making a masterpiece and to make its interpretation in real life possible by humans, that is THE real challenge ! So, I advise you to write harmony exercices for example, with two notes in the upper staff for Soprano and Alto, and two notes in the lower one for Tenor and Bass voices, like Bach did and even if one or the other part can be done by the other hand... And if it sounds good, you did the job...
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ToneGym
Jan 23, 00:08 in ToneGym Official
Congrats @J Daley for winning the Silver Ears Award!
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J Daley
Jan 23, 00:09
Thank you!
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Colin Aiken
Jan 23, 03:20
Bravo!
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Matthew Tims
Jan 22, 19:48 in ToneGym Cafe
I'm perpetually stuck at Rhythm Parrot level 31 because my inputs just keep getting pushed forward out of sync. I don't know what else to do. I've tried switching to clicks, different buttons on the keyboard, whatever I do is not good enough. When the rhythms include 16th notes, it just doesn't want to register that I have the rhythm correctly. I am 100% sure it's not my sense of rhythm, the game is just poorly calibrated. Whatever dev works on this game, if you see this, please look into this and figure it out.
Congrats @Stan Nevin for winning the Silver Ears Award!
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Colin Aiken
Jan 22
Superb work!
hello i want to become a better singer not learn music is this a good website for what i want
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Daniel Barth
Jan 21
Probably not
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This site does not in general teach you how to be a good singer. It will help with some specific things that can be useful to a singer -- recognizing and reproducing pitches and intervals with your voice, recognizing and reproducing rhythms. I'm pretty sure it's a large part of why I now pick up pieces more quickly in choir, for instance. But it will not teach you basics of singing like good tone production, how to access the different parts of your range, etc.
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Bem Abu
Jan 21
Consider buying a course from a vocal coach.
ok guys I can sing low and quiet, and high pitched. My elementary school teacher always scolded when I breathed and said BREATHE BEFORE SINGING. MORE EXERCISES FOR YOU, NOW DO BUMBLEBEE. so I'm not accustomed to breathing while singing. but idk I'm not creative in the songwriting sector. if I want to be a good music artist, I need to write good songs because I can't pay any song writer.

I have a horrible vocal range though according to the test on the website. No vocal coaching, I'm relatively good at dancing but its HARD to do singing while dancing. so yeah I'm not artist material. my genre of music I listen to is dark rnb, chase Atlantic, alt rock, etc. and also pop. my singing voice doesn't fit my own genre I like
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Daniel Barth
Jan 21
What exactly is a horrible vocal range?
I wanna sing betrer
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Michael Vang
Jan 21
U can do it :)😊
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João Freches
Jan 21
so simple and so good! love your nickname hahahaha
Congrats @Marcus Freind for winning the Silver Ears Award!
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Andrey Karpov
Jan 20
Grac!
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Jesse Lyons
Jan 20
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Congratulations!!!
Does anyone know what we're supposed to do here? Im confuzzled.
Thank you!
I can’t hear anything through my phone? Anyone else had this problem?
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Try to use Chrome based browsers, not all of them process the website properly.
Congrats @Sir Rob for completing the 'Music Theory Basics' program!
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Colin Aiken
Jan 18
Good job!
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.Good for you!!
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Jesse Lyons
Jan 19
Congrats @Phil Derome for winning the Silver Ears Award!
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Congratulations!!
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Phil Derome
Jan 18
Thank you all
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Jesse Lyons
Jan 19
Congrats @Daniel Barth for completing the 'Music Theory Basics' program!
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Good for you!!
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Colin Aiken
Jan 19
Good work!
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Jesse Lyons
Jan 19
Nice!
I recieved a message from someone on the other post and most of it was that I should find my voice and that I have so much uniqueness and potential and I SWEAR my voice sounds better irl my mic is so bad https://soundcloud.com/user-25629300/bad-bad-bad-cover-of-no-1-party-anthem
Congrats @Dmitriy I for winning the Silver Ears Award!
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Colin Aiken
Jan 17
Awesome!