Ear Training III - Major, Minor, and Diminished Triads in Root Position

So far my ear training exercises have focused exclusively on major and minor triads. This month I have decided to work on recognizing diminished triads as well. Initially, I jumped right in with triads played in all positions and inversions. I found it too difficult, however, to recognize the position of the diminished triads played this way. So this month’s exercise is back to triads in root position but now including diminished triads.

As always there are two ways to approach this exercise, by improvising along with the chords or echoing them. You can see me do both here and find the code for this exercise here. To use the code, simply open the code in Supercollider, select the Language tab, and click ‘evaluate file’.