Did you know ireal pro can be switched to show NNS numbers instead of the normal chord names?
This is how ireapl pro looks after install:
To switch to scale degrees just click on the pemcil icon and on “Fonts” (sorry, my ireal pro runs on a german phone – I can’t switch it to English)
In the next screen you will find Numbersystem:
Switch to it and your ireal pro will look like this:
So much more convenient for functional ear training 😉 !!!
One of the best ear training methods I’ve come across is functional ear training.
Instead of learning to recognize the sound of individual intervals, with functional ear training you focus on learning the specific sound of a note in the context of tonality.
Instead of identifying intervals, the goal of functional ear training is to figure out how the note or notes in question relate to the key center at hand.
Fot that you need not only the “notes in question” but a reference point – be it a drone, a backing track, a background chord.