Features

• A step-by-step curriculum designed by Dr. Gregory Simon, who holds a doctorate in composition from the University of Michigan and teaches at the University of Colorado
• Over 400 lessons, exercises, and tests with graphics, interactivity, and sound
• Both music theory and basic ear training combined into one powerful application
• A graph showing testing and answer statistics to lets you easily see progress
• Intelligent Practice that tracks the student’s progress and automatically selects questions to improve weak spots
• Exercises teaching rhythmic fundamentals including tempo, counting beats, measures, values for notes and rests, and syncopation
• Rhythmic lessons teach counting plus recognition of simple and compound time signatures (including 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/8, 9/8, etc.) and cut time
• Interactive lessons for learning how to read music with explanations and exercises for learning clefs, key signatures, note pitches, names, and rhythmic values (including dotted and beamed notes) including advanced triplets
• Explanation of major, minor (harmonic and natural), and chromatic scale construction plus modes and the Circle of Fifths
• Ear training and theory exercises help students to identify and understand note direction and motion, intervals (fourths, fifths, tritones, melodic/harmonic, etc.) scales, chords, and progressions
• Melodic identification studies that cover note stability and resolution plus the roles of melody and harmony
• Interval identification studies (fourths, fifths, tritones, melodic/harmonic, etc.)
• Chord theory lessons outline chord construction (major and minor triads, diminished, augmented, and 7ths), inversions, and arpeggios
• Lessons on creating chord progressions covering chord positions and functions within progressions (tonic, dominant, subdominant, etc.), Roman numeral (I, IV, V, etc.) and figured bass notation, plus chord substitutions, phrasing, cadence, passing, and pedal tones
• Lessons and exercises in musical form and analysis (binary, ternary, rondo, phrasing, etc.) help a student better understand composition
• A harmonic flowchart plus major and minor harmony studies
• Solfege studies with arpeggio and sight singing

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