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10.4 · Modal Interchange

Name the numerals

Each round plays an unlabelled loop in C: diatonic roles, borrowed colors, and bright outsiders, all mixed. Feel each chord's job against home, then say its numbers. This is relative pitch: the real, learnable skill behind "playing by ear".

How to listen

Don't chase the pitches. Anchor home first, then ask of each chord: resting or leaning? Bright or shadowed? Inside the key or visiting? The numerals follow from the answers.

Game · The gauntlet

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An unlabelled loop in C, drawn from the whole palette. Say its numbers.

Listen first. Then answer.

Keep the skill sharp

The Progression room deals endless loops like these. Its borrowed pool carries the diatonic seven plus bVII, bVI, bIII, bII, and iv.

Open the Progression room ▸
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