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Oct 30, 03:43 in ToneGym Cafe

Can you identify a Beatles track from the drums alone? This is ear training at its most pure, and more revealing than you’d expect 🥁🎵

Guess The Beatles Song from the Drums

Ear Training

10 min

David Bennett Music Theory

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ToneGym
Oct 29, 12:02 in ToneGym Olympics

Inversions Champ Winner, Oct. 26th - Oct. 29th:

1st: @John Huang 55 pts
2nd: @Beto Ojeda 42 pts
3rd: @Cuantas Vacas 34 pts

See complete standings:
https://www.tonegym.co/contest/view?id=7G0TJE2LK2C

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Colin Aiken
Oct 30, 01:26

Awesome work!

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ToneGym
Oct 29, 20:08 in ToneGym Official

@Gary Kelly is now a ToneGym certified member. Congratulations Gary!!

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Colin Aiken
Oct 30, 01:26

Big Congratulations!

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ToneGym
Oct 29 in ToneGym Official

Twinkle Twinkle is more Terrifying than you thought 🎃

Two versions of Twinkle Twinkle. Same melody. One of them makes your skin crawl.

The difference is seven tiny changes. A tritone where the fifth should be. A music box drifting 22 cents out of tune. Two notes a half step apart, flickering about 60 times a second, the same roughness that makes screams impossible to ignore.

Full breakdown is up on the blog: https://www.tonegym.co/blog/item?id=i-tried-to-make-twinkle-twinkle-terrifying

Which change got you first? 👻

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Pierre Thalamy
Oct 29

I love the format of the video, very visual! Funny, instructive, and easy to apply to other melodies for Halloween 🎃🎃🎃

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Cuantas Vacas
Oct 29, 14:35

I like these videos, as they allow anyone who's in the process of learning music theory to see and hear some meaningful examples on how music is affected by altering -sometimes so slightly- its basic components.

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hello world
Oct 29, 15:04

Interesting. I also enjoyed this format for learning applied theory. A question, why did the chant work with the melody? The video doesn't explain why, like it did with the other changes. Counterpoint? But what are the intervals between each note, why do they add to the creep, etc.

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ToneGym
Oct 29, 14:29 in ToneGym Official

ToneGym Hero: Pierre Thalamy

Fingerstyle guitarist, new dad, and self-confessed cheese obsessive from the heart of Comté country, Pierre Thalamy never expected to make music at all. He grew up as a devoted listener in a family where nobody played. In his mid-twenties, a roommate’s ukulele turned into Yousician lessons, then a guitar, then a couple of years of gathering dust. When he came back, he wanted to understand what he was playing, not just copy songs.

With 10-minute practice sessions squeezed into fatherhood, lullabies that quietly trained his singing, and ear training on the walk to childcare, he found that the “innate” musical ear he thought he lacked could be built one interval at a time. @Pierre Thalamy is this month’s ToneGym Hero!

Meet Pierre: https://www.tonegym.co/blog/item?id=pierre-thalamy

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Cuantas Vacas
Oct 29 in ToneGym Cafe

Here we go!

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ToneGym
Oct 27 in Basic Music Theory

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

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Colin Aiken
Oct 29

Good work!

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ToneGym
Oct 27 in ToneGym Official

@Ilija Nedelkovski is now a ToneGym certified member. Congratulations Ilija!!

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Colin Aiken
Oct 29

Big Congratulations!

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ToneGym
Oct 25 in ToneGym Official

Congrats @Greg Zib for winning the Silver Ears Award!

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J K
Oct 25

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Kathy Anderson
Oct 27

Congratulations!!

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Colin Aiken
Oct 29

Brilliant!

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ToneGym
Oct 26 in ToneGym Olympics

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

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Kathy Anderson
Oct 27

Congratulations!!

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Colin Aiken
Oct 29

Groovy!

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ToneGym
Oct 22 in ToneGym Olympics

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

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Logan Castleton
Oct 22

nice

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Colin Aiken
Oct 24

Yay!

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Kathy Anderson
Oct 27

Congratulations!!

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ToneGym
Oct 23 in Complete Music

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

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Colin Aiken
Oct 24

Incredible work!

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Kathy Anderson
Oct 27

Good for you!!

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ToneGym
Oct 21 in ToneGym Official

Congrats @Nicolas Nuñez for winning the Golden Ears Award!

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Colin Aiken
Oct 24

Marvelous job!

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amour palmer
Oct 26

hi

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Kathy Anderson
Oct 27

Congratulations!! Great job!!

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ToneGym
Oct 23 in ToneGym Official

Congrats @Yannick Weiss for winning the Golden Ears Award!

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J K
Oct 23

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Colin Aiken
Oct 24

Fantastic work!

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Kathy Anderson
Oct 27

Congratulations!! Great job!!

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Jan Charles
Oct 25 in Basic Music Theory

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.

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Kinsey Nietzsche
Oct 26

and there is also the common bug with the ledger line(s) incorrectly positioned to the left of the notes extendending the length of the note cluster making the guessing time shorter

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J K
Oct 26

Yes, as much as I appreciate certain aspects of this platform, it really is the ugly stepchild of this company.

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