It doesn’t seem yesterday when I signed up here and here I am, just passing the three million TPI milestone. I thought I was hopeless at ear training, but the social aspect of this site had worked wonders!
I have persevered with the workouts and games even though many days I was thinking that I was getting nowhere - it’s clear now that my brain was taking something in.
Looking at my statistics, I can see not only my gradual improvement, but also sudden improvement of certain games such as Intervalis. This was a real surprise to me.
I wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience with specific games? And if so, whether the improvements happen at similar timeframes. I think this would make an interesting study
Plenty of times! when I’m ear training or learning chords. The brain takes time to associate sight and sounds with an idea your having. Say I practice three days in a row (mon-Wednesday) with ear training it won’t be until Friday or the next week your brain has processed the information. So your left feeling like your practice isn’t going no where but really your brain is working over time to process the information. Then like magic days to weeks later everything makes sense and is a breeze. That’s why I notice I make huge improve to my TPI, 50,000 to 100,000 points suddenly.
Very nice! I'm really enjoying ear training! Could you guys share how it has improved on your instrument playing, compositions skills and improvisation? Thanks!
@igor reis we already know how to see and recognize things. I feel the average person only hears with there peripheral ears (like using peripheral vision). When we train we are trying to see with our ears. When we hear a third we recognize it and can decide if that’s the sound we want. Like should I use a minor 3rd over a major third here. It’s like learning to see what you hear.
@igor reis : My pitch precision has improved whether I'm singing in my choir or bending notes on my guitar. I am better able to find an opening note based on intervals from notes heard prior, and sing the ongoing intervals in my vocal line, improving my sight reading. And if I am trying to figure out a chord progression, I am better able to do that from listening to chord quality, tension, and picking out notes.
No but seriously - I started taking structured notes alongside exercises which really helped. When I get a question wrong now, I analyse it more. For Rhythmic Parrot that might mean taking a voice note then transcribing the rhythm in a 'Tricky Rhythms' section of my notebook. For Inversionist it's writing out all the intervals inside the chords and singing them back. These 'extra' things caused significant improvement in my performance (SHOCK lol)
Yes! At the beginning I thought I'd never get past a single level on a single game. Then it started happening. I just came on here tonight after a month away (traveling) and got my highest scores ever on all but one of the games in my daily workout (and moved ahead a level in each one). Just like a gym -- the benefits accumulate. :)
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