Music Reference and Theory

Intervals and ear training

I'm starting a new round of drills, this time for some basic ear training. The initial drills added are to help you hear and identify various intervals. As these are my first venture into the ear-training drills space, let me know how these work for you and if you think these will be a useful aid in helping to learn these better.

Beyond this, I've also broken out the interval reference and next-note drills into simple (unison to octave) and compound (everything above an octave). Compound intervals are not discussed as often and will be a little more challenging, so these should be in their own drill sets.

Examples:

• Ear training - Major, Minor, and Perfect (Simple)
• Intervals Reference

About the Algorithms: Chord Charts

Continuing the 'about the algorithms' series, I've got an initial post on how chord charts are found. There are several aspects to this, but for now I cover the core around how charts are actually found. I'll cover more about chart fingering and other aspects in the future.

One again, even if you don't code, this may be an interesting glimpse into how I've taught the code to understand music in ways similar to how people can learn certain aspects of music theory.