iGetIt! Music

Online music education courseware for non-musicians who want to learn how to write their own rock songs.

: Name: Jim Plamondon; Location: Austin, Texas, United States

This blog documents the development of JIMS iGetIt! Music System (JIMS). JIMS' goal is to help you Understand Music in 24 Hours™, if you are (a) a non-musician (b) who wants to learn how to write your own rock songs. Requiring no instrument other than your own computer, and without using traditional notation, JIMS is being designed to deliver a deep understanding of tonal structure...in just 24 hours.

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Lesson 2

Here's my first cut at Lesson 2 in JiMS iGetIt! Music System (source code here):

No radical departures from mainstream theory or pedagogy, so far. I'm not super-happy with the state-based architecture that I'm using, and there are some bugs (unimplemented events, actually) in the Flex 4 beta that I had to work around, but...so far, so good.

Labels: JiMS, music education, music theory