Product Description

Learning music theory has become fun and easy. Music Theory Tutor Volume 1 features over 190 engaging lessons that teach music theory with images, audio, interactive tests and many examples. Based on your responses and skill level, an Intelligent Practice feature guides you through the detailed curriculum and helps you learn crucial musical elements such as rhythm, melody and harmony. Many lessons let you enter pitches simply by humming, singing, or playing your instrument into the computer's microphone. Tap rhythms, sing back melodies, guess intervals and much more. Music Theory Tutor Volume 1 shows you when you are playing or singing the correct pitches in a lesson and lets you see your progress. Gain confidence as you pass quizzes at the end of each subject and ace tests at the end of every grade level completion.In Music Theory Tutor Volume 1, you'll learn about the building blocks of music and begin to hear musical keys, scales, intervals, chords and rhythms in your head so you can compose without an instrument and learn songs faster.Features A step-by-step curriculum designed by experienced Dr. Gregory Simon, who holds a doctorate in composition from the University of Michigan. Intelligent Practice tracks your progress and automatically selects questions to improve weak spots. View your answer statistics for tests and measure your progress. Both music theory and basic ear training combined into a single application. Learn to recognize note direction and motion; intervals; major and minor scales; major, minor and diminished chords; and the roles of melody and harmony, unstable notes and note resolution. Covers rhythm fundamentals including tempo, counting beats, measures and values for notes and rests. Learn to recognize simple and compound time signatures (including 4/4, 0.75, 9/8 and cut time). Interactive lessons for learning to read music, including clefs, note pitches, names and rhythmic values for notes and rests. Lessons on major and minor scale construction and intervals (perfect fourths, fifths, tri