Music Educational Programs
Remember
this collection has in no way been approved by the Victorian education
Department or this school. If you find a program you think is inappropriate,
blatantly commercial or should not be here for another reason please let us
know. We can’t do something about it if we don’t know. Your child’s teachers
have not persuaded the used of these programs in any length. They are all
supplied “as is” and have run on our computers. Your experiences may be
different.
The
comments are those of the developers not those of your teachers, the school,
the Department or me. Read them with a grain of scepticism.
Publisher:
Aspire Software
License:
Free
Description
From the
developer: "Learn to read sheet music with this free educational video
game. Use either your computer keyboard or
Publisher:
Tom Cato Amundsen
License:
Free
Description
From the
developer: "GNU Solfege is a program that will help you to accomplish ear
training. The program includes exercises to train chords, intervals and
rhythms. The program can be extended by users using lesson files."
(Download this file, then extract to install)
Publisher:
clear sight
License:
Free
Minimum
requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, sound card
Description
From the
developer: "Simple program written in Qbasic4.5 that allows musicians to
work on developing their ears for tuning and pitch selection. It uses simple
numbered menus for selections. It contains two levels - level one for basic
notes, and level 2 implements sharps and flats."
Publisher:
Eran Talmor
Date added:
July 18, 2002
License:
Free
Minimum
requirements: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
Description
From the
developer: "A Midi Metronome Software. Manage custom patterns up to 34
beats through a graphically designed interface. Choose any midi sounds for 3
types of beats + silent beats. Practice your keyboard with midi THRU, and set
the metronome volume individually."
Publisher:
De Plantage
License:
Free
Description
From the
developer: "Music Reading allows you to learn the names of the notes in an
easy way. This little program has many added benefits, such as error checking,
timing the note-reading speed. You can train the note reading in the G-clef,
the F-clef and also the C-clef."
(Download this file, then extract to install)
Publisher:
Dave Myers Music Services
License:
Free
Description
From the
developer: "Designed for musicians, vocalists, or anyone who would like to
be able to read music and for those who would like to be able to understand
more about the music they read. This material is beginner to intermediate level
and takes a fresh, just the facts, approach to the subject."
Publisher:
Brad Larsen
License:
Free
Description
Power Tab
is a full-featured guitar tablature-authoring tool. The program's user-friendly
interface will have you composing in no time. Power Tab contains a large number
of tab symbols, including bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, tremolo picking,
tremolo bar dips, legato and shift slides, rhythm slashes, and most of the
common music symbols used in tab (coda, al coda, and so on). Use this program
for guitar or bass tabs.
Publisher:
Learn Guitar
License:
Free
Minimum requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Description
From the
developer: "Learn to Play Guitar v3.0 takes a new player on a tour of the
instrument and uses tablature as well as standard notation to introduce the
strings, tuning, exercises, basic open chords, scales, strumming, chord
progressions, additional chords, substitutions, notes on improvising, how
chords and scales work together in progressions plus much more. This easy to
understand ebook is great by itself or as a suppliment to lessons. It also comes
with a free trial version of Guitar Calculator Pro to help with your studies.
And best of all, the Learn to Play Guitar ebook is completely FREE!"