ToneGym Cafe

Question Toothbrush
Mar 14

Does your ear training session turn into a jam session when you sitting with your instrument when doing exercises from ToneGym?
Mine most of the time: Route VI turns into chord progression exploration, intervalis into something else.😅
Do you share the same experience?

I have a lot of fun doing it like this, otherwise it gets really boring

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Stephen Lindsay
Mar 14

Can't say I do. I don't sit at the piano when doing Tonegym. Maybe I should?

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Mark Tomato Alley
Mar 14

I barely use the instrument while doing the training, because I want to train... not using anything else but my ear. But yeah, that's really cool that you're doing that on Route VI, it sounds interesting!

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Benjamin Jack
Mar 14

I used to play chords on piano along with the chord (progression, inversion, recognition) games to train my ear what each sounds like, this is a great way to get your ear started at recognizing what they sound like. Though as @Mark Tomato Alley said we are here to train our ears, so eventually you should try to do it just by ear.

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Member A0DMS
Mar 15

I think you do the right thing， but I dont have a piano to play when training my ear.

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Question Toothbrush (author)
Mar 15

@Mark Tomato Alley Yes, we are here to train ears, but my approach here - ok, I have this interval which I see written when I press C after answering, what if blend it with another interval, or I have this chord progression in this scale, what if I take it to another scale, how does it feel like? The point that I don't use instrument to aid me in an exercise, but I use it after guessing to solidify the knowledge by applying it on an instrument straight away.

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Mark Tomato Alley
Mar 15

@Question Toothbrush, yes, I find what you're doing very interesting! Maybe the way I wrote didn't make it clear: I'm in total agreement with you 😀

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