Congrats @Chris von Recklinghausen for winning the Silver Ears Award!
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nice!
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Colin Aiken
Oct 06, 02:35
Awesome!
@Phil Killingley won the Championship. Congrats for winning!
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Congratulations!!
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congrats!
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Colin Aiken
Oct 06, 02:34
Big Congratulations!
Inversions Champ Winner, Sep. 28th - Oct. 1st:

1st: @John Huang 51 pts
2nd: @Beto Ojeda 43 pts
3rd: @Mark Tomato Alley 33 pts

See complete standings:
https://www.tonegym.co/contest/view?id=BBNM2YEARGI
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Congratulations!!
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nicely done
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Colin Aiken
Oct 06, 02:34
Very cool!
Congrats @Gary Kelly for winning the Diamond Ears Award!
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J K
Oct 03
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Colin Aiken
Oct 06, 02:34
Outstanding work!
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ToneGym
Oct 05, 13:02 in ToneGym Olympics
Intervals Champ Winner, Oct. 1st - Oct. 5th:

1st: @John Huang 65 pts
2nd: @Beto Ojeda 54 pts
3rd: @David Robinson 48 pts

See complete standings:
https://www.tonegym.co/contest/view?id=X5RQNK3L0UQ
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Kathy Anderson
Oct 05, 15:05
Congratulations!!
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Colin Aiken
Oct 06, 02:33
Well done!
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Jo Pax
Oct 04 in ToneGym Cafe
Chord Inversions Practice

Hi all,

Is it just me, or there is a lack of a tool to practice chord inversions outside of the Games section? To illustrate, there are exercises to identify chords and intervals (you can select which exact chords or intervals you practice), but no similar thing for inversions.

I, personally, would love to have a dedicated exercise for inversions, as I'm stuck on dim and aug chords. Would love to drill them separately.

Cheers.
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Member 9FJC0
Oct 04
Please can you your WhatsApp let communicate and practice?
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John Huang
Oct 04
I don't think there's an exercise for that, but I play the Inversions Champ contest a lot, and here are my findings for Aug and Dim chords

Aug chords don't really have inversions, since the inversion of the Aug chord is just another Aug chord starting from a different location e.g C Aug (C E G#) at root position, sounds like E Aug (E G# (C)) at its 1st inversion, and only perfect pitch will solve this issue.

I'm personally confident with most chord inversions, but I still struggle with diminished chords in the Inversions Champ. Usually, I just listen for two things: The interval between the lowest and highest note (if it's a tritone, it's automatically root position), and whether or not the middle note is closer to the top or the bottom of the chord (closer to the bottom = 1st inversion, closer to the top = 2nd inversion)

If you can do the other chords though, it's about all you need. By far, the best practice I've found is to play them on an instrument and hear the nuances myself.
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Darren Kooyman
Oct 05, 13:29
I have found the Chord Player on this site a helpful tool. https://www.tonegym.co/tool/item?id=chord-analyser&root=C&chord=major&inversion=0
After months of failing over and over, I finally beat the 1st level of Inversionist!

For those like me that struggle with this exercise, here's what it took for me to finally beat it:
• Listen to the ToneGym playback multiple times.
• Find the base chord on the piano in the same general range as the ToneGym playback.
• Move back and forth between inversions on the piano.
• Key step: Now play it back on the piano as an arpeggio. Playing as a chord didn't cut it for me, but for some reason playing as an arpeggio allowed me finally hear where the inversion was.

Good luck, folks, and let me know if this helped any of yall, or if you have any other tips!
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J K
Sep 28
I've been relying on my intuition for the most part. It's a lot harder for me to focus on the right answer than it is to just assign a feeling to each sound and take my best guess.

The root sounds settled and final, the 1st sound wonky or off somehow, the 2nd sounds like the root but with a touch more bite or air to it?

Maybe there's a better way, I just started but that's what's worked for me so far!
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Tori Kamal (author)
Sep 29
@Kinsey Nietzsche way to stick with it though!
@J K I think just doing what works for each of our individual brains the best is the way to go!
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Enes Doganay
Oct 05, 06:42
I use the Chord Inversions section in the interactive music theory course as a reference. What I found useful is that with no inversion, there is 2 seminotes between the 1st and 2nd note and 3 seminotones between 2nd and 3rd. In the 1st inversion, they are 3 and and 4 semitones and in the 2nd inversion, they are 4 and 2 seminotes. So focusing on this difference helped me achieve better result. It is a bit difficult to explain but if you just look at how the inversions are shown, you'll probably understand what I mean:
https://www.tonegym.co/course/chords?id=chord-inversions
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J K
Oct 02 in ToneGym Cafe
Is there a non-stupid way to play notationist?

I figured I could type in the notes on my computer keyboard - which apparently you can but it doesn't let you type 'c' to register the note c. Ok, fine. Makes sense, it's arbitrarily setup to mirror a piano, fair enough. I hate computer/piano key mirrors cause the muscle memory is all wrong but it's a solid idea, maybe I can play with my MIDI keyboard!

You can use the an external MIDI device - awesome. Except, hilariously, there's no way to play flats. If I play an Eb on my MIDI keyboard, it's not counted - because it's ABOVE the E key, not below it, so obviously it's a D# now.

I would love to play this game but translating the note I recognize to a screen click slows me down a ton and is not a useful skill to build - that's not what I come here for.

Has anyone found a way around this?
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Nick W
Oct 03
Yeah to play the flats you have to press the B (B3) below the C at the same time as you press the black key... Which isn't a great solution.
Buuut, you will start moving onto chords etc after the individual notes, and I would say the goal of the game isn't to aid sight reading for playing piano, it's identifying notes or interval or chord by name. So using the mouse makes more sense, especially as you progress
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yes, I have! Have you tried my MidiToLetter app ? https://github.com/spellpotion/MidiToLetters
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J K (author)
Oct 05
Awesome, thanks Kinsey! Great idea!
Congrats @Henry Do for completing the 'Music Theory Basics' program!
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.congratulations!!!
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Vari Wolf
Oct 05
Congrats!