Music Brain Training Company
Music Brain Training Company
Learning music the old-fashioned way can be tough. We start out trying to decipher a confusing and abstract music notation system, using boring drills to pound it (temporarily) into our brains. The “code” (theory) of music just gets more confusing and illogical as we progress. That’s why most of us end up struggling and feeling like failures, with no “talent”. Kids with piano lessons are LESS likely to like classical music later in life, that’s how demoralizing and depressing it can be.
Traditional piano lessons often start with tedious finger exercises and repetitive drills. While practice is important, this dutiful approach frequently saps the joy out of learning and dampens and even kills their natural passion and desire to play music.
…and ultimately it FAILS most of the time for most people.
Even at just $20 a week for the first 2 years, not to mention the driving to and fro, the nagging to practice, and the huge dropout rate, traditional music lessons cost at least $2000 per kid! (50 lessons x $20 for 2 years) Moreover, they are often arduous, time-consuming, and ultimately almost completely ineffective and discouraging for most kids and their families. And the kids feel like failures! It’s not their fault! This traditional method is literally medieval!
Learning music the old-fashioned way can be tough. We start out trying to decipher a confusing and abstract music notation system, using boring drills to pound it (temporarily) into our brains. The “code” (theory) of music just gets more confusing and illogical as we progress. That’s why
most of us end up struggling and feeling like failures, with no “talent”. Kids with piano lessons are LESS likely to like classical music later in life, that’s how demoralizing and depressing it can be.
Traditional piano lessons often start with tedious finger exercises and repetitive drills. While practice is important, this dutiful approach frequently saps the joy out of learning and dampens and even kills their natural passion and desire to play music.
…and ultimately it FAILS most of the time for most people.
Even at just $20 a week for the first 2 years, not to mention the driving to and fro, the nagging to practice, and the huge dropout rate, traditional music lessons cost at least $2000 per kid! (50 lessons x $20 for 2 years) Moreover, they are often arduous, time-consuming, and ultimately almost completely ineffective and discouraging for most kids and their families. And the kids feel like failures! It’s not their fault! This traditional method is literally medieval!
Learning music the old-fashioned way can be tough. We start out trying to decipher a confusing and abstract music notation system, using boring drills to pound it (temporarily) into our brains. The “code” (theory) of music just gets more confusing and illogical as we progress. That’s why most of us end up struggling and feeling like failures, with no “talent”. Kids with piano lessons are LESS likely to like classical music later in life, that’s how demoralizing and depressing it can be.
Traditional piano lessons often start with tedious finger exercises and repetitive drills. While practice is important, this dutiful approach frequently saps the joy out of learning and dampens and even kills their natural passion and desire to play music.
…and ultimately it FAILS most of the time for most people.
Even at just $20 a week for the first 2 years, not to mention the driving to and fro, the nagging to practice, and the huge dropout rate, traditional music lessons cost at least $2000 per kid! (50 lessons x $20 for 2 years) Moreover, they are often arduous, time-consuming, and ultimately almost completely ineffective and discouraging for most kids and their families. And the kids feel like failures! It’s not their fault! This traditional method is literally medieval!
In the same way that all kids learn to SPEAK first, and only then learn to READ words they already know, (and only then learn grammar to refine their language abilities), Piano Wizard Academy teaches kids to PLAY music first, then RECOGNIZE how music notation “represents” a song they already know how to play, and only then do we introduce music theory to deepen their understanding of the music they already play. Music theory at this point is more like icing on the cake rather than a confusing prerequisite stopping them from learning as in traditional music lessons.
Color-coded (target) keyboard at the top, color-coded (playing) keyboard at the bottom, the purple game objects touch the purple target key at the top, and the kid plays the purple key at the bottom. The game object transforms, a note sounds, and kids are playing the right note at the right time in seconds, not after days or even weeks of abstract deciphering and wrong notes as in traditional approaches.
“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
-from the football “Zen master”, Vince Lombardi
In the same way that all kids learn to SPEAK first, and only then learn to READ words they already know, (and only then learn grammar to refine their language abilities), Piano Wizard Academy teaches kids to PLAY music first, then RECOGNIZE how music notation “represents” a song they already know how to play, and only then do we introduce music theory to deepen their understanding of the music they already play. Music theory at this point is more like icing on the cake rather than a confusing prerequisite stopping them from learning as in traditional music lessons.
Color-coded (target) keyboard at the top, color-coded (playing) keyboard at the bottom, the purple game objects touch the purple target key at the top, and the kid plays the purple key at the bottom. The game object transforms, a note sounds, and kids are playing the right note at the right time in seconds, not after days or even weeks of abstract deciphering and wrong notes as in traditional approaches.
“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
-from the football “Zen master”, Vince Lombardi
In the same way that all kids learn to SPEAK first, and only then learn to READ words they already know, (and only then learn grammar to refine their language abilities), Piano Wizard Academy teaches kids to PLAY music first, then RECOGNIZE how music notation “represents” a song they already know how to play, and only then do we introduce music theory to deepen their understanding of the music they already play. Music theory at this point is more like icing on the cake rather than a confusing prerequisite stopping them from learning as in traditional music lessons.
Color-coded (target) keyboard at the top, color-coded (playing) keyboard at the bottom, the purple game objects touch the purple target key at the top, and the kid plays the purple key at the bottom. The game object transforms, a note sounds, and kids are playing the right note at the right time in seconds, not after days or even weeks of abstract deciphering and wrong notes as in traditional approaches.
“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
-from the football “Zen master”, Vince Lombardi
ROTATE the game. Now the kids see how music notation orientates pitch vertically, and how the piano relates to it, intuitively, without theory or explanation. The game objects now stream from right to left, emulating how music flows in reading music notation.
ROTATE the game. Now the kids see how music notation orientates pitch vertically, and how the piano relates to it, intuitively, without theory or explanation. The game objects now stream from right to left, emulating how music flows in reading music notation.
ROTATE the game. Now the kids see how music notation orientates pitch vertically, and how the piano relates to it, intuitively, without theory or explanation. The game objects now stream from right to left, emulating how music flows in reading music notation.
We simply replace the color-coded game objects with color-coded musical notes. We can add note names, and fingering numbers, which they sing and quickly memorize as a bridge to transition away from the color-coded system. Just singing along with the fingerings as they play once usually embeds it in their muscle memory enough to allow them to move seamlessly to Step 4.
We simply replace the color-coded game objects with color-coded musical notes. We can add note names, and fingering numbers, which they sing and quickly memorize as a bridge to transition away from the color-coded system. Just singing along with the fingerings as they play once usually embeds it in their muscle memory enough to allow them to move seamlessly to Step 4.
We simply replace the color-coded game objects with color-coded musical notes. We can add note names, and fingering numbers, which they sing and quickly memorize as a bridge to transition away from the color-coded system. Just singing along with the fingerings as they play once usually embeds it in their muscle memory enough to allow them to move seamlessly to Step 4.
We take away the color coding, the fingering numbers, and note names, and the kids recognize the traditional music notation as a shorthand map of a musical topography they have already been over almost perfectly many times (10x) in the game. Repetition through fun game variation is our magic subconscious sauce.
We take away the color coding, the fingering numbers, and note names, and the kids recognize the traditional music notation as a shorthand map of a musical topography they have already been over almost perfectly many times (10x) in the game. Repetition through fun game variation is our magic subconscious sauce.
We take away the color coding, the fingering numbers, and note names, and the kids recognize the traditional music notation as a shorthand map of a musical topography they have already been over almost perfectly many times (10x) in the game. Repetition through fun game variation is our magic subconscious sauce.
Their muscle, ear, and sight memory know by heart where the keys associated with the notes are located on the keyboard, and they are reading and playing real music on real instruments in minutes, not months with no trauma, nagging, or tears.
This whole process happens, from Step 1 to Step 5, (reading at the piano), in about 15 to 20 minutes or less, a fraction of the time, cost, and effort of traditional lessons. It’s constructed like simple Dr. Suess rhymes for musical phonetics, they effortlessly accumulate more and more bits of the “musical code” until they are fluent natural players and readers of music, and backwards compatible with a thousand years of music literature.
This dramatic impact and cognitive breakthrough and others like it lead us to start a brand-new enterprise and mission, leveraging the insights and successes of the past with the technologies and opportunities of the future.
Imagine a music discovery world with color-coded musical game objects like musical “Legos” or “Tinker Toys” on a touchscreen, but instead of building a house or a robot, they assemble a melody, a chord, a rhythm, or a fully integrated musical piece. All the pieces fit together perfectly as they are based on the underlying math of music, and everything maps to traditional musical notation as well. We have “cracked” the underlying code of music and can teach it with simple musical puzzles that can build into any full pop song, sonata, or even symphony.
Music speaks a universal language that connects us all at a deeper human level. Our “music revolution” is about opening millions of doors that were closed for most of us. It’s about sharing music’s gifts with more people, not limiting its power to just a few. Just as children absorb language from day-to-day life, we want to introduce learning to play an instrument in a way that allows natural curiosity and passion to bloom, without the unnatural methods and drawbacks of rote learning that has discouraged so many budding musicians. We want to make learning music as intuitive, natural and joyful as learning our mother tongue.
Imagine a music discovery world with color-coded musical game objects like musical “Legos” or “Tinker Toys” on a touchscreen, but instead of building a house or a robot, they assemble a melody, a chord, a rhythm, or a fully integrated musical piece. All the pieces fit together perfectly as they are based on the underlying math of music, and everything maps to traditional musical notation as well. We have “cracked” the underlying code of music and can teach it with simple musical puzzles that can build into any full pop song, sonata, or even symphony.
Music speaks a universal language that connects us all at a deeper human level. Our “music revolution” is about opening millions of doors that were closed for most of us. It’s about sharing music’s gifts with more people, not limiting its power to just a few. Just as children absorb language from day-to-day life, we want to introduce learning to play an instrument in a way that allows natural curiosity and passion to bloom, without the unnatural methods and drawbacks of rote learning that has discouraged so many budding musicians. We want to make learning music as intuitive, natural and joyful as learning our mother tongue.
Imagine a music discovery world with color-coded musical game objects like musical “Legos” or “Tinker Toys” on a touchscreen, but instead of building a house or a robot, they assemble a melody, a chord, a rhythm, or a fully integrated musical piece. All the pieces fit together perfectly as they are based on the underlying math of music, and everything maps to traditional musical notation as well. We have “cracked” the underlying code of music and can teach it with simple musical puzzles that can build into any full pop song, sonata, or even symphony.
Music speaks a universal language that connects us all at a deeper human level. Our “music revolution” is about opening millions of doors that were closed for most of us. It’s about sharing music’s gifts with more people, not limiting its power to just a few. Just as children absorb language from day-to-day life, we want to introduce learning to play an instrument in a way that allows natural curiosity and passion to bloom, without the unnatural methods and drawbacks of rote learning that has discouraged so many budding musicians. We want to make learning music as intuitive, natural and joyful as learning our mother tongue.
