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While the chord is playing sing "happy birthday", if the 3rd note of happy birthday fits the root of the chord, its a ii chord.

If not it could be the vi or the iii.

Relate everything you hear to the root of the major scale (sounds like you've been doing this with the IV and V) the sing up the intervals till you get to your chord.

It gets easier over time.

Also the App ChordProg for iOS or Android is useful fo r this

We actually had a poster here in this sub who made an app for this specific purpose.

It's called "ChordProg". It's for both Android and iOS, and it's fantastic.

It has chord progressions in context of actual music, with plenty of options for how you want to learn.

I'd highly suggest it, it's free.

Shoutout to /u/ChordFunc for making it.

• Visualisation of scale fingerings / song parts

• Drawing chord shapes and scale shapes to help recall

• Ear Training: listen to a riff and work out in your head what intervals are being played

• Memorize all the notes in all the keys

• Ear Training: use ChordProg app to attune to chord progressions

If I were to build it out it would have to be a native app (desktop or mobile), mainly because of performance reasons. I doubt I will find the time to develop it in the immediate future. But it would be a fun challenge for sure.

I have a couple of side projects in the ear training space, but its just really small ear training apps. Nothing that uses midi.
- Ear Training App Online

- ChordProg Ear Trainer

I made a game called ChordProg its to learn to recognize chordprogressions. Might not be what you´re looking for. Focus on chord recognition by ear with real music snippets

Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChordFunc.ChordProgPro

IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chordprog-ear-training/id1268719506?l=nb&ls=1&mt=8

The program has a massive set of exercises, it makes you figure out intervals between ascending and descending notes, it makes you figure out chord qualities, extensions, rhythms, etc. For example, it plays you the lydian scale, then it plays an interval of two notes in that scale, it asks you "what's the interval between those notes?", "what are the scale degrees?".

I used it daily for 1 year (1 year and a half ago), with ~15 minute practice sessions. It requires a payment to unlock all the exercises, which I did by using the credits I had from Google Rewards.

I also recommend ChordProg Ear Trainer, which is the same but focused to chord relationships (figuring out things like I - vi - IV - V).

Apps are great if you dont have access to your instrument. For instance if your on the subway or something like that. Some good ones are... Perfect ear 2 Complete Ear trainer

For Chord training i would recommend my app if your on android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChordFunc.ChordProgPro

Just trying and failing is also a good way to learn. What instrument do you play? When i first started playing piano I made a conscious choice to stick to a few key signatures to learn the relative chord functions very well. Now it really dont matter for me. C major or F# its feels just as familier. Transposing is also easy when you learn to think of chords in terms of the functions they have.

These are the ones I use and like:

Chord Progressions: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChordFunc.ChordProgPro

Allrounder: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evilduck.musiciankit

Melodies: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChordFunc.MiReDo

Functional Ear Trainer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaizen9.fet.android

Sorry if the formatting is bad. I'm on my phone right now.

I See a couple of people mentioned my app ChordProg Ear Trainer which makes me all warm and fuzzy inside :p

But I'm also working on a new ear training app. It's called eartrainingapp.com, and the goal is to make the best ear trainer online. Currently its not really diving into any theory but it has a lot of exercises for developing your ear. But I really want to build out a music theory section as well with exercises in things like chord voicings as well as basic stuff for nailing down the basics.

I'm of course bias here, but It might be worth checking out :)

Chord prog will randomly give you chords in the same key (not randomly from any key)

Are you hoping to identify the exact chord/pitch e.g. "That's Bb minor 7" or just the chord type "That's a minor 7th"?.

If you are wanting to identify chords and recognize them by their sound/quality there are courses like Ear Training Bootcamp.

The thing is you'll probably never to to ID a chord in isolation. You'll have other clues like the other chords in the progression, the key etc which are all strong pointers – a little bit of theory goes a long way to help determine these things

Here's some YouTube channels that are more on the theoretical or educational side rather than the "practice this lick" side:

• Adam Neely, aka /u/adamneely1
• samuraiguitarist, aka /u/samuraiguitarist
• Ben Levin, aka /u/benlevingroup
• 8-bit Music Theory, aka /u/theorynerd
• Ongaku Concept, aka /u/joshuataipale

Besides that, I also recommend checking the exercises and lessons from MusicTheory.net and, if you have an Android, you can try the apps ChordProg Ear Trainer and Perfect Ear for ear training.

If you're on Android:ChordProg Ear Trainer is a good option.
https://www.eartrainingapp.com Is another creation of mine, it will work offline soon as a PWA.

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It does get easier but it is a slow, long haul at the start and it can be draining. There's probably a few courses that would get you there sooner, like this one.

There's also some apps like Chord Prog

And some tools like Amazing Slow Downer or Anytune app that help separate the notes/filter frequencies, slow stuff down etc

I'm not sure theory helps that much, except perhaps providing a "shortlist" of possible notes.

There are lots of options, from the physical to the mental.

• Visualisation of scale patterns, in your minds eye "see" yourself placing your fingers where they need to be as you play up and down the scale - for your brain/memory making there's no difference between mental rehearsal and actual rehearsal.

• Guided visualisation audio, like this one for the G major Scale

• Musical doodles, reinforcing the above with [drawing scale shapes],(https://15minuteguitar.teachable.com/courses/supercharge-your-six-string/lectures/1007630) interval maps or new chord shapes.

• Ear training with Function Ear Trainer or ChordProg

• Tapping your fingers on the desk in an order in time to a metronome. E.g Fingers 1,2,4 them 1,3,4 (rpt) or 1,3,2,4, 3,1,4,2 then repeat.

• Humming what you hear. Short melodies or riffs.

• For playing, you could leave out pocket guitar and just play on your forearm.

This app is beyond amazing. Wish this existed when I was in college. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChordFunc.ChordProgPro