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Henry Purnell
May 18
I swear to god! Been doing this a while and hear what interval is what is a pain in my entire rear end. I work at it and work at it it just don't get much better. Somebody got a set of ears they wanna sell?? ''bout had it w/ mine!
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do you play an instrument? I always try to imagine going key by key from one tone to another when in doubt—that helps a little, but isn't buleproof either. then I have this cheatsheet:

m3 - sounds unusual and the tones are not far appart
M3 - sounds OK, not nice, not special in any way, just OK
P4 - sound a little triumphant, but also a little just OK
P5 - sound triumphant like an 80's arcade game soundtrack, also I imagine a cowboy at a rodeo for some reason
M6 - sound special, but already passed the triumph
P8 - is when I don't hear the second tone at all, or I imagine the keyboard falling on ground accidentaly after pressing the first key

I didn't get further in tonegym, but tritone is quite easy as well, because it's dissonant, not the tritone itself but the note that pretents to be one in the 12ET system. m2 is also easy, it's like just someone doing a vibrato.
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Henry Purnell (author)
May 19
I play guitar. Trying to determine a flat fifth from min. 6th and Major 7th is frustrating as hell. Decent at min, maj. 3rds, p4 and 5ths. Those I've worked at a lot longer. Seems they can get confusing once I throw the others in the mix. Think it's just keep doing it thing.' Had to vent, lol.
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I totally get it. Sometimes you just need to make yourself comfy, turn off the consciousness, do the grind, and let your brain do it's thing.
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Ken Wilkens
May 20
Repetition is the mother of skill. If you are doing the daily workout every day, it will come together in time.
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I like some of the insta/tiktok challenges like the people singing the scale 1, 121, 12321... or minor second major second minor third major third.
Theres a few tricks out there like this that can help you memorize it!

I have found the interval memorizer tool helpful, you can go in there and choose new examples if the ones that come up first dont resonate with you
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Tori Kamal
May 20
Super challenging to me, too. The interval where it is played simultaneously, and the inversions where you you need to figure out what inversion is being played are the 2 that rock me. Everything else flows pretty well.