Someone from the TabIt forums posted this and I've been playing it pretty much all night. When I first started, I had about 45% accuracy on the interval trainer, but a few hours later, I'm now up to around 65%, and I can choose my answers more quickly, with fewer replays. I haven't tried the Chord trainer yet and I probably won't until I'm more comfortable with the interval trainer.
Anyway, this is a lot of fun and is certainly helpful, as well as probably being the least stupid thing on the internet that I've ever wasted my time on.
Anyway, this is a lot of fun and is certainly helpful, as well as probably being the least stupid thing on the internet that I've ever wasted my time on.
Stevecubus said:So we're all musicians up in here, but how many of you have good ears? Can you tell the difference between a Minor 6th and a Major 6th? How about a Perfect 4th and a Perfect 5th?
http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id90_en.html
How many of you can correctly guess 100 intervals, perfectly?
Challenge "rules":
* Switch off "unison" and "octave", those shouldn't count.
* Change the options - play mode would be the two notes separate / together, direction is just 'up'. if you want to really be a badass, do up/down.
This trainer reminded me how bad my ear actually is. Yesterday I played until I hit 300 'correct' guesses, but my score was at 58%, so i must have done nearly 600 and got half of them wrong.
I did better today, at least, but this was definitely a wake-up call to how much training I still need. I mean, how would it work if a painter didn't know his colors? A musician should know his intervals/notes.
And, if you're feeling froggy, try the Chord ear-trainer.
http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id92_en.html
Covers your basic triads (Maj, Min, Aug, Dim, Sus [4th i'd assume]) and your basic 7th chords (Dominant, Major, Minor, Diminished, 7b5 [half diminished]). Doesn't cover extended chords or some funkier ones (MinMaj7), but it's still fairly comprehensive.
So, TabIt... how good are your ears? Screenshots, too, if possible, please.