it's a compound exercise. if you sing roots and/or recognize individual inversions and top notes, it will go a long way. sometimes you might think, oh, i'm hearing a third scale degree (E in a key of C major), but the chord sounds more settled (the exact feeling is a personal thing), so it gotta be Am and not Em, but because i'm hearing E it means E is either the top note or it's an inversion of Am. then you listen to the same chord progression and sing A instead and try to recognize if it matches the chord more.
use the instrument to check yourself if you need to, but ultimately try to fizzle it out and do most of the checking in your head and with just voice.
this practice is hard, but i believe that's the only one to squeeze as much juice out of this exercise as possible. don't just rely on a general feel when identifying chord progressions, it's not very scalable imo.
Route VI is a killer for me. I'm now capturing the answers (using the scale to the right of the screen) and playing the chord progression on the piano to try to recognize a V vs. a IV vs. a I. It's not obvious to me. I also tried using Chord Crush. I did OK in that game, but it didn't translate to ToneGym. I'm sticking with it, but it's one of the hardest exercises for me. Keep at it!
I’m experiencing a similar situation. Using chord crush as my main exercise tool, then proceeding to tone gym Having trouble with Route VI Will try singing notes
have you tried a function ear trainer app? it really helps bootstrap this process and instill the right habits when it comes to working through interval recognition and relative pitch in general
You also might try memorizing tunes that have a particular interval like Happy Birthday for ascending major second; Hey Jude for descending minor third. Check on the toolbox at the top of the page it has an interval trainer. Good luck to you. Really -- keep trying; it gets better!
No, I actually couldn't do it today, but I did get the Inversionist. I'm not sure why this is so hard for me, but I've taken to capturing the screen so I can see the progression and play it on the piano. I'm not giving up!!! Thx for the encouragement.
Same here, for now I'm trying to sing the major second from the bass note to tell if it's a sus 2, but still get it wrong. When I help myself with the piano it gets more obvious so I guess ultimately this will become simpler.
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