Harmony Cloud App

[pamosmusic]

Yeah the learning curve gets steeper with stuff like this, but honestly I just feel like my ear is way better when I'm working on stuff like this -- more focused and attentive or something -- even when I'm floundering on the actual content.

[Christian Miller]

One thing I think I struggle with is I don’t hear second inversion (6/4) chords as major at all but rather as a variant of suspended chords because I’m functional terms that’s what they are. OTOH that’s not the only problem I have with this hell-app rofl.


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[pamosmusic]

One thing I think I struggle with is I don’t hear second inversion (6/4) chords as major at all but rather as a variant of suspended chords because I’m functional terms that’s what they are. OTOH that’s not the only problem I have with this hell-app rofl.


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Yeah that’s a real one. It’s getting better slowly but the big thing I have is the tonal centers — like he’s in C major and plays a B major chord … the next chord is E\G# but I hear “mi” and reflexively call it C/E or something.

Usually it has to be a little trickier than that but you know what I mean.

[charlieparker]

Not to derail the topic but I wish there was an app that played Cork's Lego Bricks and have you identify those. I, personally, think that would be more valuable.

I also have Auralia which has some pretty tough exercises but I found them a bit annoying because if you don't get all the tensions right you fail. Also, I sometimes find inversions tough because I often hear resonances or ghost notes which throw me off.

I just want app where if I get the scale degree of the chord and the basic chord up to the 7th it will consider it correct. Maybe this app can set up something like that.

I also love the idea of just listening to the bass.

[pamosmusic]

Not to derail the topic but I wish there was an app that played Cork's Lego Bricks and have you identify those. I, personally, think that would be more valuable.

I would love that.

I've been working on some iReal tracks for them, which I think will be cool to have, but not sure beyond that.

[pamosmusic]

Just finished my second pass through the chords I was working on. Added the sus chords for the relative minor, which gives me ... in the key of C ...

C, F, G, D, E, A, B
D-, E-, A-
Edim, F#dim, Bdim
Csus, Fsus, Gsus, Dsus, Asus, Esus, Bsus
E+, A+, B+

[pamosmusic]

It took some time but these are going surprisingly well now.

Just this morning, I added the minor chords from parallel minor.

In C, that would be:

Cm, Fm, Gm

It’s not a huge change, but every addition takes longer to get in my ear than the last. It’s pretty tough.

[pamosmusic]

I’ve been flailing around lately on the following (in C):

Major: C F G, D- E- A-, Edim F#dim Bdim, Csus Fsus Gsus

Relative Minor: D E A B, C#dim D#dim G#dim, E+ A+ B+, Ddim Gdim Adim, Dsus Esus Asus Bsus

Parallel Minor: Eb Ab Bb, C- F- G-, Ebsus Absus Bbsus

Im getting wrecked. Starting to use the setting to limit bass motion to see if that helps

[benhatchins]

That’s a neat app — ear training is something I’ve been trying to improve on too. It definitely takes a lot of patience, but if you stick with it, you start to notice real progress over time, which is super motivating. I really like the way it lays things out; it almost reminds me of the old yahoo mobile yahoo-mobile.pissedconsumer.com/review.html tools that tried to make things simpler back in the day, but this is on a whole other level. The interface is way more intuitive, the exercises are varied, and you can really track your improvement step by step. Honestly, apps like this make practicing a lot more engaging, and it’s kind of fun to see how much you can improve when the right tools are in place.