I've recently discovered www.musictheory.net and I'm really enjoying the music theory lessons and exercises. My only gripe with it is that there's no way of using my MIDI controller keyboard to complete the exercises (for example, this one: -reverse). Is anyone familiar with a website or app that's like musictheory.net and would allow me to plug in my keyboard to complete its exercises?
Musictheory.net Exercises
Musictheory.net is an amazing free resource I highly recommend. It provides lessons that can provide a refresher on some of the concepts presented here, and also a large number of interactive exercises that you can use to drill yourself and build your skills.
In this course, I incorporate exercises from musictheory.net and intersperse them with my own lectures, handouts, and worksheets. Content from external sources is always clearly marked as such. I have customized the exercises to best reflect the presentation of the material you find here, but I encourage you to visit their site and check out the rest of their content as well.
For several years now I have been a big fan of Ricci Adam's web site, musictheory.net. I have used his training exercises with my beginning band students to teach beginning concepts while also helping them practice things like naming notes, key signatures, and aural intervals. When I returned to the site at the beginning of this school year I was met with quite a surprise, Ricci has updated almost every tutorial and exercise on the site as well as adding some new material.
Most impressive to me are the improvements to the trainer applications. For example, he has made it possible to customize the exercises to match whatever range of notes you need, from tuba notes all the way up to above the treble clef staff. The lessons portion of the site has also been updated. Instead of the linear, PowerPoint style progression of slides a user can now skip around to whatever slide they need, yet the animations and on screen tools still work as they did in the old version.
All in all, Adams now has 37 different lessons and 10 different customizable exercises covering not only note naming but also chord building, intervals, key signatures, and scales. The tools window is also packed with useful stuff including a visual chord generator, a twelve-tone matrix generator, a staff paper generator, and a wonderful pop-up piano keyboard that actually plays!
For those that don't like all of the new features Adam's has maintained a link over to the old set of music theory tools, and those tools can still be downloaded and saved locally to use in case of an Internet outage at your school.
If you are teaching elementary music, band, or beginning orchestra you owe it to yourself to check out these tools. When used on a computer they are great, but used in conjunction with a SmartBoard or other IWB device they become something else entirely, a fun and useful way to get kids to practice their musical skills.
It has lessons and exercises for learning to read sheet music as well as identifying scales, intervals, and chords. I use their exercises for my students in my courses because they go on forever. You can practice as much as you like while getting instant gratification when you get the right answers.
MusicTheory.net is a great website for learning LOTS of music theory concepts. One of my favorite parts of the site is the ability to customize exercises for student practice at home. There is lots of learning to take place outside the classroom!
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