MUSICAL EDUCATION / THEORY / COMPOSITION / PERFORMANCE / PRODUCTION
Study rhythm, melody, harmony, notation, ear training, and improvisation across Western, Hindustani, and Jazz music. Compose and arrange original work. Practice piano, guitar, bass, drums, or voice. Record, edit, and mix in StemLab. Keep your compositions, performances, and course work in My Music.
THE MUSIC CURRICULUM
Study rhythm, melody, harmony, improvisation, and form through the musical concepts of each tradition. Listening, analysis, singing, playing, and composition develop together, with the repertoire and practices appropriate to the music.
Pulse, meter, notation, intervals, scales, harmony, form, and composition.
Begin with pulse and notation. Learn intervals and scales, build chords, study voice leading and musical form, then apply these skills in composition and performance.
Sa and swara, drone, raga, tala, characteristic phrases, and improvisation.
Find Sa against a drone. Hear the relationships among swaras, recognize tala cycles, study characteristic raga phrases and movement, then practice guided improvisation.
Time and swing, blues and song forms, harmony, improvisation, and ensemble playing.
Practice pulse, subdivision and swing placement. Study blues and song forms, chord tones, guide tones and voice leading; apply them in improvisation and ensemble practice.
More traditions will follow.
COURSEWORK & PRACTICE
The coursework pairs a musical subject with a specific listening or performance task. Each exercise identifies the skill to practice and the musical result to evaluate.
WESTERN MUSIC / RHYTHM
Listen to a short phrase in 3/4 and another in 6/8. Tap the main pulse, identify the grouping, then notate one measure.
HINDUSTANI MUSIC / TALA
Count the sixteen matras across four vibhags. Mark sam and khali, then maintain the cycle while listening to a theka.
JAZZ / HARMONY
Follow the third and seventh through a ii–V–I progression. Sing or play their voice-leading paths before improvising a short response.
Illustrative course objectives. The complete lessons will include the corresponding musical examples and assessments.
LEARNING, CREATION & PERFORMANCE
Music study continues through composition, instrumental and vocal practice, recording, and review. These workspaces connect the subjects taught in the curriculum with the music you make and perform.
Build listening, reading, rhythm, melody, and harmonic skills through Western, Hindustani, and Jazz lessons.
Open the listening exerciseCompose melodies, rhythm parts, and accompaniments. Study structure, voice leading, and arrangement as you revise your compositions.
Open the composition exerciseDevelop technique, timing, ear-to-instrument fluency, and expression in piano, guitar, bass, drums, and voice.
Open the keyboard exerciseRecord and edit audio; sequence MIDI; shape instruments and effects; study levels, frequency, and mixing decisions.
Open the synthesis exerciseKeep musical recordings, compositions, performances, completed coursework, and revision histories in your private record.
Review saved versionsMELODY · EAR TRAINING · SOUND
Hear a phrase in C major and follow its contour. Change its pitches, practice it on the keyboard, and compare the original with your revision. Explore timbre with the synthesizer and save your work for another listening session.
Listen to the phrase and locate its highest pitch. Follow the ascending and descending movements, then select a note to identify its pitch and position in C major.
Select a note, move it higher or lower, and listen to the revised phrase. Compare your variation with the source melody to hear how one pitch changes the line.
Practice the phrase on the on-screen keyboard. Use the corresponding number keys for the scale notes, then compare your pitch sequence with the listening example.
C · D · E · F · G · A · B · C
Compare sine, triangle, sawtooth, and square waveforms. Change the filter brightness, replay the phrase, and listen for differences in harmonic content.
Choose a sound and change its brightness, then replay the phrase.
The MIDI file contains note pitches, timing, and tempo for editing in a music application.
Name the current phrase and save its pitches, tempo, and sound settings. You can return to the version and compare later revisions on this device.
Saved versions stay in this browser. Clearing browser data erases them.
HARMONY · ARRANGEMENT · CRITICAL LISTENING
Follow Dm7–G7–Cmaj7–Am7 in C major. Hear the melody, seventh-chord voicings, bass motion, and pulse independently, then combine the parts to examine the arrangement.
Original note data drives the arrangement. Follow the chords while changing which parts are audible.
Choose the parts you want to hear.
Audio is off until you press Play. All four parts are selected.
BROWSER SYNTHESIS · MUSICAL PARTS CONTROLLED INDEPENDENTLY
MUSICAL STUDY
Study meter through listening, keep a tala cycle, practice voice leading, or work with melodic contour. Each subject develops through listening, performance, and musical revision.
Review the coursework