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Image 1 — I finally finished my own melody dictation (ear training) (free) app because I wanted specific features. Does this work for you guys too?
Image 2 — I finally finished my own melody dictation (ear training) (free) app because I wanted specific features. Does this work for you guys too?
Image 3 — I finally finished my own melody dictation (ear training) (free) app because I wanted specific features. Does this work for you guys too?
▲ 0 r/eartraining

I finally finished my own melody dictation (ear training) (free) app because I wanted specific features. Does this work for you guys too?

Hi everyone. I’ve spent some time using different ear training apps over the years, but I always found myself wanting to tweak certain things. I kept trying new apps to fit my flow, but eventually, I design to build my own. It's called Melody Ear Gym (iOS) and I made it totally free and ad-free.

I built it this way because I had specific weak points when trying to figure out songs without an instrument in my hand. With other apps I tried, the progress still felt too fast for me. I added some settings to control the complexity of the note jumps in the generated melodies so I could practice at my own pace.

It basically included everything I personally wanted for my own practice. But since I designed it purely for my own needs, I’m really curious to see if it actually works for others or if I've just made something that only makes sense to me.

If you have a few minutes to try it, I’d really love to hear how it feels. Your feedback would help me improve my own training as much as the app.

Here was my ear training journey:
-figuring out song melodies note by note on the guitar
-trying to recognize intervals by ear ( if someone had told me earlier that relying heavily on interval recognition (the “song reference method”) can actually be kind of poisonous, I think my progress would have been much faster.)
-constantly comparing each note to the root(using solfege system)
- I moved on to training with generated phrases in the same key by using my app.

Now I’ve reached the stage where I can slowly figure out songs purely by ear.

Here is my background:
I’m a solo developer from HK. I studied electric guitar at MI (Musicians Institute) a long time ago and currently work in IT. I’ve just been building this in my spare time to solve my own struggles with melody dictation.

You can find it on the App Store if you want to test it out. Let me know what you think!

u/NoWillingness5083 — 4 days ago
▲ 5 r/QuadCortex

I just bought a Quad Cortex a week ago. I’ve been testing it with my Strandberg Classic, which I swapped to a vintage single coil pickup (that the output level is lower than the original).

When soloing, I’ve noticed that the tail of the notes gets cut off very unnaturally. The volume drops suddenly instead of fading out gradually. I’ve already turned off the noise gate at the input block, removed all noise gates from the signal path, and increased the input level (both in global settings or at the input block). I also added a compressor in the chain, which helps with sustain, but the sudden cutoff still happened.

However, two days ago I used another Strandberg with humbucker pickups to test it and the cutoff problem is kind of resolved (not perfect, but acceptable). Obviously, I can’t just rely on the built in presets to fix this. I fine tuned it what I mentioned above.

Has anyone solve this issue when using low output single coil pickups with the Quad Cortex? Any advice or solutions would be greatly appreciated!

I’ll give it one more week. If the problem cannot be solved, I’ll sell it.

Please help!

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u/NoWillingness5083 — 22 days ago
▲ 3 r/funk+1 crossposts

I just got back from seeing the new Michael biopic, and it sent me down a massive rabbit hole of his 80s performances. While digging through the Victory Tour (1984) footage, I noticed a huge sonic difference compared to his later solo tours (Bad, Dangerous, etc.).

On the Victory Tour, the rhythm guitar is absolutely front-and-center. You can really hear the "scratch" and the "pocket" of the guitar (shoutout to the legendary David Williams). It feels like a raw funk-rock unit. However, as Michael moved into the later 80s and 90s, that organic guitar groove seemed to get replaced by the Synclavier and heavy digital sequencing.

The Transcription Struggle:

Since seeing the movie, I’ve been obsessed with trying to figure out the guitar parts from that 1984 era. It’s a real challenge because the recording quality on YouTube is mostly grainy VHS rips, and there’s no official soundboard or live album on Spotify to reference. Even with the rough audio, the arrangements are so sophisticated that I’m determined to transcribe them, but it's tough when the guitar is fighting through 40-year-old tape hiss!

I’d love to hear from the guitarists here:

  1. Do you think the shift to a more "clinical," synth-heavy live sound in the late 80s helped or hurt the energy of the songs?

  2. For those who play funk/pop rhythm: how much of the "MJ sound" do you credit to David Williams versus the production?

  3. Does anyone have advice on EQing or "cleaning up" old YouTube bootlegs so I can hear the guitar transients better for transcribing?

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u/NoWillingness5083 — 27 days ago