![]() Hooktheory also operates a full Youtube channel. You can check those out by clicking here! If you are looking for an amazing music theory “textbook” that incorporates popular songs into an easy-to-understand interactive course, Hooktheory also has two levels of digital, immersive textbooks that coordinate with the Hookpad system. ![]() You can even view many songs that use a given chord progression by exploring the TheoryTab Trends tool. ![]() You can simply type in the song title of a popular song and view the chord progression of the song and play with the tempo, the key, and the mode of the piece. It certainly helps keep the creativity flowing! To view a full interactive sample of Hookpad, click here!īeyond Hookpad, Hooktheory also hosts a free “ TheoryTab Database” which contains at the time of this writing over 25,000 popular songs with verses and choruses encoded in Hookpad. This manner of composition allows your students to spend their time writing the melody while also getting the benefits of having a full orchestration soundtrack. They can hear their song as an orchestral ballad, a jazz interpretation, or in hip-hop style with just a click of a button. They can also hear their song played with different harmony, percussive elements, and backing instrumentation which all follows their song. Hookpad employs an incredible amount of “magic.” Students simply create their melody on the piano roll at the top of the screen and either manually enter or ask for a “magic” chord progression which fits with it. Here is a video about Hooktheory’s software, “Hookpad”: It is a combination of interactive curriculum and advanced music composition software to help students both understand music theory and put that knowledge into practice. Hooktheory was designed by three doctoral students from UC Berkeley. If your students are learning a song and can’t remember how to make a specific chord, the chord finder tool can help!īest for: Older Secondary Music Classrooms It allows your students to view how chords (and chord fingerings) are created on different instruments (piano, guitar, ukulele, and music notation). They sound great! Musicca is an excellent, free tool to give your students the ability to play high-quality instruments digitally or virtually. It’s not easy to find virtual instruments whose sounds are high quality, but the virtual instruments on Musicca rival those found in other programs like Garageband. ![]() Musicca offers a free virtual piano, virtual guitar, virtual bass guitar, and an online drum machine. The best feature (in my opinion) of is their virtual instruments and finder tools for chords, intervals, and scales. is similar to in terms of their theory exercises, but they also have other features which make them unique and useful in their own right. This fully-featured website is completely free!īest for: Primary/Secondary Music Classrooms (virtual instruments) & Secondary Music Classrooms (theory) Although there is no way to view all students’ scores outright, you can request students to send you their completion report once they’ve completed the quiz. When students click on the link, all of the pre-set parameters are right there waiting for them which dramatically decreases set-up time for exams or quizzes. Once the exercise is designed, it is saved as a private link to be added to digital classrooms or distributed via email. The teacher can also set parameters such as time limit, question limit, and allowing multiple attempts. The teacher could design a note identification quiz that will only ask students about the space notes of the treble clef. For example, perhaps a class is learning about the space notes of the treble clef. In the customizer, teachers can pre-make their own exercises and parameters for their students. One of the best features of is its exercise customizer for teachers. has a range of exercises and pre-made digital lessons that walk students through the basics of music theory (rhythm, notes on the staff, time signatures etc.) all the way through building chord progressions, building neapolitan chords, and inversions. It still amazes me that some teachers have never heard of or used.
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