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do you play an instrument? I always try to imagine going key by key from one tone to another when in doubt—that helps a little, but isn't buleproof either. then I have this cheatsheet:

m3 - sounds unusual and the tones are not far appart
M3 - sounds OK, not nice, not special in any way, just OK
P4 - sound a little triumphant, but also a little just OK
P5 - sound triumphant like an 80's arcade game soundtrack, also I imagine a cowboy at a rodeo for some reason
M6 - sound special, but already passed the triumph
P8 - is when I don't hear the second tone at all, or I imagine the keyboard falling on ground accidentaly after pressing the first key

I didn't get further in tonegym, but tritone is quite easy as well, because it's dissonant, not the tritone itself but the note that pretents to be one in the 12ET system. m2 is also easy, it's like just someone doing a vibrato.

I play guitar. Trying to determine a flat fifth from min. 6th and Major 7th is frustrating as hell. Decent at min, maj. 3rds, p4 and 5ths. Those I've worked at a lot longer. Seems they can get confusing once I throw the others in the mix. Think it's just keep doing it thing.' Had to vent, lol.

I totally get it. Sometimes you just need to make yourself comfy, turn off the consciousness, do the grind, and let your brain do it's thing.

Outstanding accomplishment!

Thanks, took me about a year!

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I have not. I like to play ear training apps for chord progressions. I use Chet (lifetime purchase) and the free chord progression here (Route VI I think). I believe that they helped me quite a bit, but I have a nagging feeling that doing old school way that my rock teacher promotes would work out even better (listen to a real song and figure it out at least chorus part).

Tonegym’s strength is two-fold, 1) increasing difficulty as we get better in a gentle way, 2) different types of sounds (instruments).

Chet has single instrument tone, gamification to improve, but I am not completely sold to that. But it also has chord progressions in context drills (short excerpt of well known songs by their own cover musicians for 2-4 seconds and identify chord progression for that, and similarly for other drills such as intervals).

@Phil Derome
listen to a real song and figure it out at least chorus part that's actually an approach in ChordCrush, but simplified for beginners to start with defining one chord in progression and then extending to all chords.
I tried Chet as well, it seems like a combine of all ear training - melody, chords, etc. ChordCrush only for determining Progressions, it's like Route VI on anabolics.

I used to pay for Chord crush. I liked it but eventually fell out of using it. If you want to work on chord progressions specifically I would recommend it, however, I like ToneGym more because it's more comprehensive - not just chord progressions. The cool thing about chordcrush is you can do it with real chord progressions from actual songs on youtube.

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We hitting C16 with these strats.

Me with my D7 crying in the corner