RE: Fractal Smithy Ear Training

Hi Joseph,

FTS already has this.

See Arp / Scale playback config button (in current beta it is
next to the Scale... button in main window, and shown with a
tied double quaver icon)

Show two arpeggio windows, and set them up with the two intervals you want
to test. Edit the New name field to give the name you want to show for
the test.

Now a new button will appear in the config window called "Randomise for
quiz"

Click this and it will play one of the arpeggio intervals at random,
and it plays it transposed to any of the scale degrees, so if you
have chosen 72-tet as the scale, will transpose by any of the 72-tet
scale degrees.

Idea is you then look away from the screen and listen and say which
one you think it is.

Look back, after it has been played, and you will see a yes / no /
cancel message.

Click Yes to hear next chord, No to play the same one again, and Cancel
to end the test.

That should suffice I imagine. If it proves useful, could add
a special window with boxes and check boxes to customise it - it is just
something I added for fun pretty much, so very basic at present.
You are the first to ask for this specifically.

Works for any scale / arpeggio. I have just described the test with two
arpeggios, but you can show any number of arpeggio windows, and it will choose
one of them at random each time.

Help for the Arp / Scale playback config window explains more (click on
the blue "?" icon in top right corner). The drop lists can
be used to choose method to play arpeggio - as chord, broken chord,
sequence. Also figuration for the sequence option. Again, help goes
into more detail.

However, I imagine a proper ear training program might do it somewhat
differently? This is just presenting the intervals with no context.
Perhaps recoginising chord progressions is more appropriate?

Something on chord progressions could be added a fair bit later
when I add a chords section of some type to FTS.

One shouldn't be disappointed if one finds the test harder than
one expects, as it can be harder to hear intervals when out
of any musical context, depending on how one hears music.

Robert

--- In tuning@y..., "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@n...> wrote:

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> Hi Joseph,
>
> FTS already has this.
>

Thanks so much, Robert, for this post on ear training with the
Fractal Tune Smithy. I will *certainly* try this feature....

Thanks again!

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Joseph Pehrson