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The Music Tutor for Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 is easy to use. Each edition has 'Lessons' under the lessons menu. These lessons have accompanying text that is displayed in the instructor box. As you proceed through the lessons, examples will be displayed in the work area above the instructor box. Questions appear periodically. You answer the questions by pressing the option button next to your choice with the mouse pointer. The Music Tutor then checks your answer and displays a message box telling you if you are correct.
After you complete the text for each lesson, you may select the practice session for that lesson. The practice sessions are designed to help you go over the material in the lessons with repetition. The Practice Sessions are also designed to allow you to come back to the Tutor when ever you need a brush up on that area. You may find that some of the practice sessions will be useful for a period of months until the concepts are securely learned.
The Music Tutor is designed to be used at any pace. You
may choose to go through all the lessons at once,
or to do a bit at a time, coordinating the ideas
you learn in your music lessons with the concepts
and practice sessions provided by the Music
Tutor.
Pitch and Key Signatures edition.
How to use the Music Tutor: An overview of the components of the music tutor. Recommended for first time users.
Lesson One - Pitches and the Staff: The lesson covers the pitch names for all of the lines and spaces of the staff. It also discusses the clefs used with the grand staff.
Lesson Two -Sharp Key Signatures: This lesson introduces you to all of the Major key signatures that use sharps. It discusses the need for accidentals and why they are required to indicate the keys.
Lesson Three - Flat Key Signatures: This lesson takes you through all of the flat key signatures for Major keys.
Minor Keys - A Brief Overview: This lesson briefly
introduces the relationship of major keys to minor
keys. When you arrive at the point in your musical
training that you need to learn and practice
recognizing the minor keys, this section of the
Music Tutor will be helpful.
Notes and Time edition:
Lesson One - Rhythmic Values of Notes: This lesson introduces whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes,sixteenth notes and the use of the dot to modify the rhythmic value of a note.
Lesson Two -Time Signatures: This lesson presents four time signatures: 4/4, 3/4, 6/8 and 2/2. The importance of the beat (or pulse) and how beats are grouped into the various time signatures is discussed.