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Congratulations! That's inspiring!

Everyone hears things a bit differently but for me it helped a lot to stop trying so hard. When I focus too much, the Major and minor flip in my brain because the Major is supposed to sound better or something? Idk, it's a mental trick I play on myself that maybe you play on yourself too.

The Major sounds... boringly triumphant? Try to paint your own, unmistakable mental image for the things you hear. I do a mnemonic of a gladiator in the arena having just won a fight - but it's a super cheesy 80s movie version where everybody is kinda just phoning their acting in. If I can't imagine that gladiators half-hearted whatever face, holding up a boring, triumph fist, it's not major.

A simpler one is the Major 3rd - it's a doorbell. If it doesn't sound exactly like a doorbell ring, it's not a Major 3rd.

I hope that helps you as much as it did me, good luck!!

A major 3rd is also the bing bong on an airplane before an announcement

Imagine the panic on the aeroplane if they played a minor third!

Congratulations!!

nicely done!

Congratulations!!!

It would require perfect pitch, which is rare, to do it JUST by ear.

Scale Spy and Chordelius are probably what you want to train. Victor is right that perfect pitch isn't an expectation in ToneGym (it's debatably possible to teach but that's another conversation).

Can you recognize whether the key is minor or major? Can you hear when the tonic is reached and when accidentals are played? Knowing that the song centers around B or G# isn't very important - it only takes a second to find what the key center is by playing a few different notes.

Do you mean the note name of the key or the structure of the key?

Yea i can decern between major and minor, but yea i do find that i struggle with finding the tonic or home in a piece o music.. i did find a little online tool that helps train this though

https://sonofield.com/apps/key-seeker/songs/irish-folk-1

Wow!! Congratulations!!

very well done

Congratulations!!

nicely done!

Congratulations!!

@John Huang Thanks, John. Want is your approach to sus2 chords?