General Information

• Ease of Use
  Musition has a simple and friendly interface. Because Musition is a teaching program designed to help you learn music theory, we don't believe that you should have to learn how to use it!
  
  The main screen of Musition opens up with five large panels, each signifying a group of topics or modules. Individual topics are accessed using the text buttons underneath.

• Suitable for All Ages
  Each topic has a system of levels that are progessively graded, allowing beginners and advanced students to realise their full potential in the shortest possible time.
  
  
• Using the Drills
  Each of Musition's 34 topics has its own drill screen, allowing you to focus on the subject at hand with no distractions! All of the topics are interactive; some may ask you to tap back a rhythm using your spacebar or MIDI keyboard whilst others may simply require you to select a multiple choice answer.
  
  
• Syllabus specific content
  Musition can now be configured to support multiple syllabi. A separate level structure can be created in each topic for any particular syllabus.
  
  Musition 3.0 comes with its own syllabus, as well as the older level structure for Musition 2. Extra syllabi can easily be added to the system using our Syllabus Editor. That means that you can load and save custom levels for any topic!
  

• System Requirements
• Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista
• Pentium® Processor or higher
• 32Mb+ RAM
• Hard disk with 100mb of free disk space
• CD-ROM Drive  
• Soundcard
• MIDI Keyboard (optional)
• Microphone (optional)

34 Topics to Practise!

• Pitch
  In this section, users will be developing their skills at identifying and recognising notes, intervals, scales and scale degrees. It contains Advanced Note Reading, Enharmonic Notes, Intervals, Jazz Scales, Note Reading, Scale Degrees, Scale Home Keys, Scales and Solfege. Using this topic, your pitch recognition skills will accelerate very quickly!
  
  

• Rhythm
  The Rhythm topic area contains 7 topics, each of which is concerned with reading notes from a score or recognising the meter and pulse of a rhythmic example.
  
  In Beaming, a rhythm without beams is shown on screen, and you are asked to put the correct beams in using the mouse, while in Drum Sticking, you will tap back a rhythmic pattern with your left and right hands. This topic also covers time signature recognition, rhythm notation and rhythmic subdivision, and includes many exercises inviting you to tap back rhythmic patterns in time.
  
  

• Terms & Symbols
  The Terms and Symbols topic area has 6 topics, covering musical concepts, guitar symbols, ornaments and terms.
  

• Harmony
  The Harmony topic area has 6 topics, covering key signatures, chords and modulation.
  
  The Chords topic deals with the recognising of given chords as well as their construction, while Chord Scale Relationships tests the ability to relate chords and scales, in a jazz context. This topic also investigates diatonic chords, jazz chords, assesses your knowledge of keys, key signatures and modulations.
  

• Instruments
  The Instruments topic area covers topics such as instrument knowledge, instrument keys and instrument recognition.
  
  In this topic area, you will be identifying the keys of various instruments, developing general knowledge on a wide range of instruments, and learning and identifying their ranges. The topic also covers Instrument Recognition, in which you identify the instrument being played, Instrument Transposition, involving transposing to and from the pitches for a particular instrument, and Clef Transposition where short melodies are to be transposed from one clef to another.
  

Testing Features and The Professor

• Create customised tests for you and your students
  Musition allows you to setup an unlimited number 'tests', or customised learning tasks. As a teacher, student or parent, you define the contents of tests, and you may use any number of questions from any syllabus and any topic.
  
  
• Allow 'The Professor' to guide you and your students!
  As you work through Musition, 'The Professor' can guide you, advising when to move up and down through the levels. 'The Professor' will also give you detailed summaries of your results as you require them.

Classroom, Lab & Studio Features, Record Keeping and Reporting

• Record Keeping & Reports
  Musition will record all your results! As you work through Musition's topics, your results will all be safely recorded on your computers hard disk. You may then examine your results on screen or print them out.
  
  
• Networking & Musition Datasharing
  If you have more than one PC, and have purchased a Multi User License, Lab Pack or multiple single copies, we encourage you to install Musition on your network. This will allow you to have centralised databases of all your students, classes, tests, syllabus settings and results.
  
  All of Musition's features can be utilised over your network! This affords you great flexibility. Imagine that you have 15 computers installed in your computer lab, and one computer in the music office. With a network installation of Musition, you can create your classes, tests and syllabus setting in the music office, and all your students will be able to access this information in the computer lab!