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Tone Hole Level 74 Playthrough Q: How to Hear All

Tone Hole Level 74 Playthrough

Q: How to Hear All The Ascending Intervals in a Major Scale?
A: Perhaps a better and more accurate question might be:
Q: How to Hear All the Ascending Major Intervals Within an Octave?
A: Practice singing up from "do" to "re", "mi", "fa", "so", "la", and "ti".

Use Training Mode in Tone Hole to advance your ability to conjure these intervals, so that your ear doesn't need to rely on walking through a pattern. Patterns are good, so start with them.

Then, of course, play Tone Hole levels 73-75. The Warm Up Level (73) will get you started, matching sound AND COLOR to sound AND COLOR. The Practice Level (74) will get your flight off the ground by removing the color cue. Then the Challenge Level (75) will help you internalize these sounds by silencing your answer tones so you really have to listen to the question tone.

You can play in Training Mode for any of these levels, where Tone Hole cues you sing or hum each of these randomly. Actually the Warm Up level will walk you through the same pattern as in game play.

Play with your ears!
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Intervals up from "do"...... from "do" to "re" is a major second; from "do" to "mi" is a major third; from "do" to "fa" is a perfect fourth, from "do" to "so" is a perfect fifth; from "do" to "la" is a major sixth, from "do" to "ti" is a major seventh. counting to seven is easy. You can use your fingers and still have three left over to hold a paint brush! Daily play clears the doubt away. Your path to clarity may not be a straight line, but it is yours and yours alone. Yet, many are walking with you in song.

Level 44 Playthrough "Not Fa to Run". Q: How to T

Level 44 Playthrough "Not Fa to Run".

Q: How to Train Your Ear to Hear More Than Just Up-And-Down Motion.
A: Gradually, with patience and repetition, and by focusing first on skips, then on wider leaps.

While you can get pretty far in music hearing only step motion, where notes move only to their neighbors, over time you'll condition your ear to hear skips, aka "thirds". Each skip has a different flavor, and this level focuses on the skip between fa and re.

It's the sound of "open sleigh" at the end of "Jingle Bells", and knowing this can ground you in experience and connect your perception to your memory. Even without this reference, many European classical pieces come to an end by going fa-re-do. And so this level brings you through this pattern, identifying it repeatedly until it is another old friend.

For this playthrough video, I chose a sound that even I don't love, but I put it in the game so that you can challenge yourself to hear through timbre. If you do ear training with a piano sound only, you will quickly become confused when you are presented with music on other instruments. Solution: mix up the sounds you hear when you train. Simple

GOOD: Play with your eyes by watching this video: see if you can predict the correct match before I tap the tone.

BETTER: Download Tone Hole for FREE and play through the first 18 levels. Then, just a buck-ninety-nine for over 100 more levels! Play with your ears!

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Your musical truth awaits you. Keep listening inside and you'll find it. Savor each tone you sing like it's the most beautiful note ever, because it is. These tones might grate, so you can change them! Stop working so hard and play your music. Music is to be played, not worked. Your musical truth is already inside you. Your singing voice is your birthright. No one can take it away!

How to Train Your Ear Using Patterns from "Mary Ha

How to Train Your Ear Using Patterns from "Mary Had a Little Lamb"

Tone Hole Level 12 - "Easy Little Lamb" Playthrough"

Think you don't have musical talent? Think you don't have a great ear? Well, I bet you know your shapes (square, triangle, pentagon) and I bet you know your colors (red, blue, orange, etc.). Why do you know those things? Because before you even started school, grown-ups were pointing these details out to you. Did they do that with music? Probably not.

But what you probably were exposed to even without the help of grown-ups is the song "Mary Had a Little Lamb". It is deep in your consciousness, and it holds secret codes. These codes, these Easy Little Lamb codes, are your keys to the first door of listening musically.

This set of levels titled "Easy Little Lamb" lays these secrets bare. But I can't explain what they are. You have to feel them. You have to hear them. The Warm Up level that precedes the one on this video restates the melody exactly, refreshes your memory of it, and opens your eyes to its foundational simplicity.

This level breaks up the tune as you play, and brings you down into the simple interactions between do, re, and mi. This is the power of solfege!

GOOD: Play with your eyes by watching this video: see if you can predict the correct match before I tap the tone.

BETTER: Download Tone Hole for FREE and play through the first 18 levels. Then, just a buck-ninety-nine for over 100 more levels!

Play with your ears!

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How to Play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Ear"

How to Play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Ear"

Level 42 "The Twinkle" Playthrough

This challenge level is based on the familiar song "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star", and though it's not the same exact tune, it obeys the same... melodic flow.

Therefore! If you can successfully play this level, you will be able to play "Twinkle Twinkle" by ear on your instrument!

Try to keep up with me playing it on this video or download and play Tone Hole yourself at your own pace. IT'S FREE! I'm playing at a good clip, but when you play it on your own, Tone Hole adjusts its tempo to match how quickly you respond.

Play with your ears!

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How To Distinguish "do" from "re" and "ti" Level

How To Distinguish "do" from "re" and "ti"

Level 8 Third Time Charm Playthrough - Tone Hole

First up: You can change the sound in Tone Hole, which expands your ability to perceive tones that are not only played on the piano. Do you ONLY listen to piano music?

Second: Mess around with the tones there so you get a good sense of _"do"_

Then: Play Tone Hole or follow along on this video. I'm playing at a good clip, but when you play it on your own, Tone Hole adjusts its tempo to match how quickly you respond.

Play with your ears!

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Tone Hole level 96: "Axle". By the time you reac

Tone Hole level 96: "Axle".

By the time you reach this level, your ears will be sharp enough to pierce "Axle", which challenges you to hear "re" as it competes with "do" for the role of the Home Tone (or tonic).

Every other tone you hear is "re" so you can practice hearing all the intervals to and from "re" in the major scale and that carries a flavor worth savoring. Follow with your eyes as I play this level at 60 BPM, or download Tone Hole for free and play at your own pace.

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Tone Hole Level 39 Playthrough: "Treehouse" Play

Tone Hole Level 39 Playthrough: "Treehouse"

Play Tone Hole with your eyes on this video and see if you can keep up with me. In this level a tone can only be followed by its neighbor. This kind of "step-wise" (aka conjunct) motion is very common in music of all styles, so we focus several levels on hearing these simple options:

1. The new tone is one higher than the previous one...
2. The new tone is one lower than the previous one.
3 The new tone is... THE SAME as the previous one.

Play at your own pace on the iPhone/iPad game.

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Tone Hole Level 6 "Ti Totalled": Comparing "Do" wi

Tone Hole Level 6 "Ti Totalled": Comparing "Do" with its arch nemesis "Ti". Answer tones are silent! This way, you really have to internalize the sounds of the tones. Answer tones ring out on warm-up and practice levels so you can compare your answer to the question tone. You will notice over time that going from "do" to "ti" sounds distinctly different than going from "do" to "re". Savor that difference here in do-ti's isolated form. you can watch this video and follow with your eyes, or you can download Tone Hole for free and play with your ears! LINK IN BIO. #musicgame #musicgames #musiceducation #Kodàly #eartraining #solfege

This is my new home base, my quocketshop, which I

This is my new home base, my quocketshop, which I made with wood I saved from my kids’ now-gone loft beds. It’s got lots of surface configurations to accommodate my different making modes. I couldn’t have done it without @openbench! Thank you, Jason Ryan!

Tone Hole Level 36 "Wonder Town": Capturing tones

Tone Hole Level 36 "Wonder Town": Capturing tones in the major pentachord with skips between tones in the tonic triad.
Answer tones are silent! This way, you really have to internalize the sounds of the tones. Answer tones ring out on warm-up and practice levels so you can compare your answer to the question tone.

Pedagogically sound, gradually advancing levels help you confidently build your ear to mastery!

Download Tone Hole on the Apple App Store and level up your ears.

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Tone Hole Level 3 Playthrough: "First Step" Compa

Tone Hole Level 3 Playthrough: "First Step"

Comparing “do” and “re”, answer tones are silent! This way, you really have to internalize the sounds of the tones. Not so hard with two tones, but as you progress to nine tones, you'll find it increasingly challengings!

Download Tone Hole on the Apple App Store and level up your ears.

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Tone Hole Level 33 Playthrough: "A Village Door"

Tone Hole Level 33 Playthrough: "A Village Door"

This level of Tone Hole challenges you to capture (name in real-time) these four notes: "do", "re", "mi", and "so". Why no "fa" today? We are practicing internalizing the skip between "so" and "mi", important because those two tones belong to the tonic triad, the ONE CHORD. Also, these four tones comprise the first four tones of the major pentatonic scale. "La" remains!

Here, watch as though you are playing. I am playing at 60 BPM. Want to go at your own pace? Download Tone Hole and give it a whirl. It starts VERY simple: just two tones!

You got this.

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Greetings from my quocketship (under construction

Greetings from my quocketship (under construction and not fully operational) here at Listen Up Games. I’ve excited to start the year making things you can use to play with your ears and find your voice! See you soon! #eartraining #musicgames #kodaly

Tone Hole Level 72 Playthrough If you haven’t

Tone Hole Level 72 Playthrough

If you haven’t downloaded Tone Hole yet, you can use your eyeballs and pretend yIf you haven’t downloaded Tone Hole yet, you can use your eyeballs and pretend y#eartraininggamesou are playing.

This level (“Sweet Bouquet”) trains ascending major intervals up from “do”. I hope I am playing slowly enough for you to follow along!

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Jump for joy! You crushed another semester! @usms

Jump for joy! You crushed another semester!

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Difficulter and difficulter! Master your ear even

Difficulter and difficulter! Master your ear even more now that you have all the chords in G major with soprano and bass notes drawing from among do, re, mi, so, la, ti. NO FA! (Soon, we'll introduce fa, but for now you'll be plenty busy with just six scale notes in the bass and soprano.)

REMEMBER: For most of you, you'll want to focus on either the soprano and the bass. Make an effort to sing or hum the tones you hear. For treble voices, you'll need to octave-adjust the bass notes, and for bass voices, you'll do the reverse. This octave adjusting is one of the big keys to inner hearing, and once mastered it becomes a superpower!

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Welcome to Ambient Ear Training episode 10.

In this episode, the bass notes might include or might draw from la, ti, do, re, mi or so.

And the same for the soprano: la, ti, do, re, mi and so.

So you'll notice that the only missing note in either of those – that you're definitely not going to hear – is fa.

And the possible chords are all the seven chords in the key of G major, so you got G, C, and D major chords, E minor, A minor, and B minor chords and F# diminished.

So here we go!

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I'm very excited to release a new free resource fo

I'm very excited to release a new free resource for teachers and learners of ear training. It's called 18 Extremely Easy Melodies to Sight Sing, and it represents the beginning of a larger set of resources that goes from extremely easy to very advanced one step at a time.

I can't wait to hear what you think of these unison and 2-part singing exercises!

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Welcome to Ambient Ear Training episode 9. In th

Welcome to Ambient Ear Training episode 9.

In this episode, you’ll hear bass notes that include do, ti, re, mi, and so; soprano notes that include do, ti, re, mi, and so.

So both soprano and bass notes will draw from the possibility of five notes.

And the chords will be all the chords in the key of G.

So that would be G major, C major, D major, A minor, B minor, E minor, and F-sharp diminished.

Full episode on YouTube. LINK in Bio!

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Here's Ambient Ear Training episode 8. In this epi

Here's Ambient Ear Training episode 8. In this episode, listen for bass notes do, re, mi, & so; soprano notes do, ti, re, mi & so; and chords Gma (the "one chord"), Cma (the "four chord"), Dma (the "five chord"), Ami (the "two chord"), Bmi (the "three chord"), and Emi (the "six chord").

Full episode on YouTube. LINK in Bio!

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Now even EASIER to see your progress as you improv

Now even EASIER to see your progress as you improve your musical listening skill! Tone Hole is THE musical tone matching game for beginners and experts alike. With three decades of teaching experience and pedagogical best practices baked into the code, take this opportunity to improve your musical ear and increase your effortless musicianship!

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