Double Bass Ear training / App question

[ctrlzjones]

There is also a “paper-app”, a book from Lars Edlund - “Modus Vetus”, helpful for may who chose to adress eartraining via the singing way. He also has a book for atonal eartraining, but i cannot recall the title.

 

[Dave Tompkins]

but i cannot recall the title.

Modus Novus

 

[MonetBass]

musictheory.net

Click on Exercises, then go down to Ear Training. There is also an app called Theory Lessons.

 

[LaFaro01]

I would check out Earmaster...

EarMaster - The App for Ear Training, Sight-Singing, and Rhythm Training

Become a better musician with the EarMaster app: Ear Training, Sight-Singing, Rhythm training on on your phone, tablet or computer. A complete method to reach new levels of musicianship. NAMM TEC Awar

www.earmaster.com

 

[peteswanson91]

Tonal solfège is the way. Moveable do… hearing within a context is absolutely crucial

 

[lurk]

Tonal solfège is the way. Moveable do… hearing within a context is absolutely crucial

I agree and have spent some time with it daily for awhile. Can you point me to a resource with help on when ro change do? For a simple example, if I'm singing the melody of All The Things (leaving out repeated pitches) - do, fa, ti, mi, la ti do ti la.....now what? Is that e natural (I'm in Ab) si? le? mi in the new key of C?

 

[damonsmith]

As the others say, there is no better way than to just sit with a chord instrument, even a bass guitar, and play each of these chords.
A bigger question is what do you want to do with that information once you have it? It is important to gather as much information as possible - it is also important to not get distracted from things like arco practice by things less essential to the instrument.

 

[Jmilitsc]

Is that e natural (I'm in Ab) si? le? mi in the new key of C?

i hear the E as mi in new key of C. and i hear the bar before as the (ii) V of new key as well.

solfège is where it’s at for me. hard to do in real time while playing but for practice it’s incredibly helpful.

 

[crd]

Move-able do solfeg and jazz will never get a long.

 

[longfinger]

I am having issues differentiating diminished and augmented chords.

Having a guitar, keyboard, or even fretted bass...
know the chord structure is close position
diminished 1 - b3 -b5
augmented 1 - 3 - #5
play one melodically, sing it, ascending, descending.
play one harmonically - sing it, ascending, descending.
then repeat with the other.

Do that 12 times for each chord type. going in semitones till the octave repeat. (or down.. your choice)

Singing it, means you can hear it and start to understand it, and recreate it yourself without a physical instrument. Do that, and hearing it from outside will be much easier.

My take, is the apps and such are "tests", but not the study. We learn in the study, not in taking the tests. So practice with the guitar, piano + voice, then when you feel good about it, play various chords yourself harmonically, listen, then sing each note. Then when that is strong, take the app tests.
By then, the ear will have opened up enough to hear them.

There are keyboard apps available for tablets, that in certain situations can serve as a proxy for a physical digital keyboard.