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Have any of you done 100# in the Start training thing on insane mode?😱

Progressions Champ Winner, Oct. 19th - Oct. 22nd:

1st: @John Huang 76 pts
2nd: @Beto Ojeda 74 pts
3rd: @Cuantas Vacas 67 pts

See complete standings:
https://www.tonegym.co/contest/view?id=BIGJZYYWFX0

Congrats @Oualid Hamza for completing the 'Music Theory Basics' program!

Congrats @Ilija Nedelkovski for completing the 'Complete Music' program!

Congrats @Greg Zib for winning the Silver Ears Award!

Chords Champ Winner, Oct. 22nd - Oct. 26th:

1st: @John Huang 62 pts
2nd: @Beto Ojeda 57 pts
3rd: @Nikolay Kutkovoy 48 pts

See complete standings:
https://www.tonegym.co/contest/view?id=8FOHBLBO5A0

Congrats @Nicolas Nuñez for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Congrats @Yannick Weiss for winning the Golden Ears Award!

I still can't get 100# in insane mode... HELP ASAP!😩

Notationist has a bug at Level 75. I get a stream of minor 2nds with only one answer choice. Sometimes the correct answer is rejected so I can never pass this level.

Congrats @Shira Gtr for winning the Golden Ears Award!

Fair warning: this one is designed to get stuck in your head. 🎹

Researchers studied thousands of earworms and found that the sticky songs have a few habits in common. They’re quick, they follow a shape your ear already knows, they hide one surprise, and they never quite land back home. So we built a melody from scratch using every one of those moves.

Watch it tonight, then come back tomorrow morning and tell us: can you still hum it? Bonus points if you can name the interval that makes the hook. 👀

Ever put on a song and instantly felt where “home” is? 🏠

That’s your ear finding the tonic, the note everything else gravitates back to. Once you can hear it, figuring out a song’s key gets a lot less mysterious.

Our new article walks through how to find the key of any song by ear: locating that center of gravity, telling major from minor (and sorting out those sneaky relative keys like C major and A minor), and checking your answer by playing along.

Give it a read, then try it on the next song you hear today. 🎧
👉 https://www.tonegym.co/blog/item?id=how-to-find-the-key-of-a-song