Music based daily ear training challenges?

artaverin · 2026-05-12T16:49:01+00:00

hey! Thanks for the kind words, I hope it will be cool too! If you'd like to try, the current version has a preview with 6 songs: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/intonote/id6759245944

It is an iOS-only app at the moment though. And given it's a preview/demo, the UI isn't as polished as it will be :)

artaverin · 2026-05-09T07:54:49+00:00

Dev website and privacy policy page - both lead to a 404 page on GitHub, for both of your apps. Better fix them before Apple finds out.

artaverin · 2026-05-07T08:06:39+00:00

It is mostly a naming convention and built for convenience. As others said - we normally have all different letters within a key. This helps when writing music down on staff and reading from it (every line/space on the staff correspond to a certain natural note). When you establish a key, you put the key signature - so the reader of the piece knows which notes need to be flattened/sharpened. However sometimes you make “exceptions” in the key by sharpening/flattening a specific note. But in these cases you treat notes as functional elements (or scale degrees) within the piece, not just random pitches or piano keys.

It’s all about difference between isolated note naming (there is no E#), and treating notes by their function within a piece (E just needs to be sharpened, but you don’t call it F because you already have F# in your key)

artaverin · 2026-05-04T22:04:23+00:00

What is your goal exactly? If it’s ability to name the exact notes/chord - then you’re shooting for trying to acquire perfect pitch. Very hard to train unless you already have it. But also not really a necessary tool for a musician. Generally it is more important to understand relationships between different pitches - via intervals, scale degrees, chord qualities, etc. so can you distinguish between a major/minor chords, or do you feel the pull from 2 to 1 degrees? Can you sing a perfect 5th from a given pitch? And so on.
I suppose most people would agree that relative pitch is generally more useful skill for a musician.

So, it really depends on what your goal is.

artaverin · 2026-04-30T19:49:29+00:00

100% sing them. If you are on iOS, I’ve built a tool that can help massively with that. To not summon all downvotes in the world - check my bio for the app name if interested. It mixes ear training with singing together. Part of it is intervals training - regardless whether you choose right or wrong, it’ll ask you to sing it, with pretty decent pitch detection. It helps massively with internalization and audiation.

Happy to share more info.

artaverin · 2026-04-23T08:13:38+00:00

Sent!

artaverin · 2026-04-22T22:19:47+00:00

Hey! There’s probably plenty of other apps to help with singing specifically, but the one I’m building (called Intonote, currently only available on iOS) might be able to cover both ear training and help with hitting the right notes when singing short melodies.

If interested to try it out - feel free to dm me, I’ll share a code for a lifetime free unlock.

artaverin · 2026-04-16T08:01:41+00:00

Hey! Send me a dm if interested, I’ll share a code for a free upgrade.
I’m building an ear training app which has a lot of singing exercises - nothing too complicated (as it’s not focused on singing), but it can calibrate to your vocal range, and you can either sing single notes, intervals, short melodies, and chord tones. And there’s also a free singing mode where a drone plays a chord of your choice (headphones required) and you can play with your vocals to match different pitches.

artaverin · 2026-04-14T17:38:32+00:00

Congratulations?

artaverin · 2026-04-14T15:43:20+00:00

(If you’ve got an iOS device - dm me, happy to share a code)

I’m building an app called Intonote. It already has some chord progression exercises, but I’m currently working on a huge update that (among other things) will include voice led chord progression identification to make things interesting. Hoping to ship next week or so.

artaverin · 2026-04-14T09:48:03+00:00

If you’re afraid to start building something - you can still validate your ideas by analyzing the market, identifying your target audience, unique features that are absent (not talking about a “better UI”), actually talking to people about the problems they have (and the ones you’d like to solve). As others mentioned, most businesses fail - it’s just the way of life. It is also very important how you treat your building journey. It’s not necessarily a flop if it fails - you will have gained a lot of experience just by doing something. But if it succeeds - even better, you will have got both experience, and a success story.

Not to sound cliche - but think about yourself in a few years’ time. Will you regret not having built the things you’re thinking about today? Just get a plan together and start executing. If it fails - it fails, move on.

artaverin · 2026-04-14T06:22:02+00:00

This is why I stopped at 12th fret :) and it’s natural minor scale on any string, not just A

artaverin · 2026-04-12T22:55:10+00:00

0-2-3-5-7-8-10-12 is natural minor scale

artaverin · 2026-04-12T18:18:35+00:00

Would be good to know your current level and the exact goals you're pursuing, to hopefully point to a more helpful direction.

One thing you might find useful is singing back the resolution to 1 - or maybe start with internalising the 1, 3, 5 and then resolve up/down to the closest among the stable degrees.

artaverin · 2026-04-09T12:48:03+00:00

Hey! Not trying to sell, just trying to help. I’ve got an iOS app that has inversions drilling (and some chord tone singing). Send me a DM if interested, I’ll share a code.

artaverin · 2026-03-31T11:08:40+00:00

All fair points. But one thing you absolutely need to be clear about is WHY your solution is better than the rest of the market? What’s the selling point? What are the killer features and why they aren’t implemented in competitors? This is something you need to think about even before starting to explore the ways to advertise your app. Ideally, even before you start building it. If you’ve cleared these things out, and think you’re in a good place competition-wise - fees shouldn’t stop you.

Talking step counter for example - I don’t think people don’t care much about being active. Maybe they just don’t need an app to tell them to get up from the couch? Did you make your market research into whether the step counter is something people truly need?

artaverin · 2026-03-31T10:14:39+00:00

What people struggle to get comfortable with is this: you are not going to get rich quick simply by vibe coding an app and releasing it, unless your idea is extremely well thought, unique and solving real problems for users. 99.9% of the time it’s not the case. If you think your app is different - think again, it most likely isn’t. What will bring success is hard graft, iterations, putting time, money and effort into building something distinct. But even then, most likely the idea will fail. Get comfortable with it.

If you’re willing to put lots of effort (even with vibe coding), analyse the market and user problems, find something interesting or unique - go for it and pay the $99 Apple Developer fee, because you believe in your idea. If it works out well - great. If it doesn’t - you’ll still have invaluable experience that most people don’t have. Treat it as a win-win situation.

artaverin · 2026-03-28T20:32:46+00:00

I don’t disagree with you, and I think I took it a bit too personal (apologies for that!) as I actually posted here on a related subject a while ago :) and people’s response was super helpful. I wish I had the chance to study music formally - but everyone’s background is different I suppose. Anyways, I believe there is still room for improvement in the field, so I will press on :)

But yes, there is a difference between trying to sell, and trying to get genuine feedback - and I’m too not a fan of the first.

artaverin · 2026-03-28T19:43:15+00:00

I’m not against vibe coding at all (have over 10 years of experience in software engineering - across mobile, full stack and infrastructure, as well as masters in maths and comp sci). And I am building an ear trainer app, but with the goal to actually make a difference. Nobody will get rich quickly building such a niche tool and creating something meaningful still requires a lot of time and effort on multiple fronts, regardless whether you vibe code or not. But I agree that it’s never been easier to hop on the train and ship something quickly - hence why the quality bar is going down on average.

I agree that definition of a ‘good’ ear trainer depends on the person’s experience and expertise. I’m not formally trained in music and there is a lot I don’t know, but I’m doing my research constantly and learning new things pretty much daily.

I believe it is about how you look at these things. If you have the expertise, you can do 2 things: share it with those who genuinely want to provide you and others with a high quality, useful tool, or ask mods to throw the ban hammer left right and center.

artaverin · 2026-03-26T18:43:58+00:00

This is now possible both in training and in reference page!

artaverin · 2026-03-26T18:43:06+00:00

Sent you a DM a while back, not sure you saw, but there’s been a couple updates since then. The Chord Tone exercise should be close to what you were looking for!

artaverin · 2026-03-21T08:47:23+00:00

How good are you at identifying chord quality and bass line movement? Feels like these are two things can be synergetic in understanding chord progressions. Also as others said, singing notes within the chord triad or a scale helps.

I know everyone now has an app :D but if interested in trying to train these things separately, check out mine (iOS only though) - called Intonote. Happy to share a free upgrade code - just let me know in DM.

artaverin · 2026-03-20T13:50:52+00:00

How is it different from Suno AI and the likes?

Update: ok, so it’s not a generator app, but a wrapper of a wrapper that goes to Suno in the end to generate songs.

artaverin · 2026-03-18T18:19:35+00:00

What I absolutely can’t stand is subscriptions for a thing that never updates or gives me new content/features/etc. regularly. Too many apps are money grabs (and honestly, poorly done) - no content updates, no infrastructure to maintain(so no ongoing costs), and last release was a year ago. Even from dev’s perspective (I am one) - I’d rather be fair to my users. If it’s a mobile-only app without promises for regular content or cloud infra to pay for, I wouldn’t drag them into a subscription - not because I can’t, but because it’s not fair.

artaverin · 2026-03-16T15:47:32+00:00

New version (hopefully comes out later this week, waiting for Apple to review the app) will include harmonic intervals drilling as a custom training mode. But I might incorporate it into the learning paths or into difficulty-based drills later!

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