Learn to Read Music, Music Theory, and Ear Training

Ricci Adam's MusicTheory.net earns my highest recommendation for practicing all sorts of music skills. My absolute favorite aspect of this site is that you can DOWNLOAD it and use it away from an internet connection, with all of its functionality intact.

What can you learn/do on this site?

• How to read music: clefs, scales, durations, rhythm, accidentals, intervals and chords. All here, all the time.
• Learn the piano keyboard.
• Learn and quiz yourself on the guitar fretboard.
• Learn to recognize sight-singing and dictation intervals by listening and quizing yourself.
• Practice brass fingerings.
• Generate chords, music paper or even twelve tone matices.
• . . . and more.

Absolutely invaluable for students of ear training and theory courses around the globe. Thank you Ricci!

Just for fun, here is another program you might be interested in:

If you've got a midi keyboard hooked up to your computer and your kids are learning to read music, then let me suggest a fun program to add to your learning arsenal (ha ha) : NOTE ATTACK!

Note Attack allows you to blast those notes away by pressing the correct key on your keyboard. The notes progessively move faster and faster, so your skill level increases the longer you play. Great fun and completely FREE (as long as you already have a midi setup).