Welcome to eMusicTheory!

eMusicTheory.com provides online tools for teachers and students of basic music theory, everywhere.

Teaching Music or Music Theory?

Studying Music?

As a subscriber to eMusicTheory.com you can manage your student list, give out carefully tailored assignments, and check your students' scores, all online.

Your students can complete their assignments from almost any computer with an internet connection.

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If your teacher gave you a username, password, and teacher code to use here, sign in to see your assignments.

If not, you can still use the free online drills to practice your skills.

Get started with the free music theory drills or interactive music theory concepts, or the links to other helpful music theory websites.

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eMusicTheory Software
Use the drills without an internet connection, and give your answers using any standard MIDI instrument.

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News

| 2 September, 2008 |
Teachers: we made a few important changes to the process of building your student lists — now you can paste in your entire list of students names direct from a spreadsheet or webpage, and generate "jsmith"-style usernames and random passwords automatically at the push of a button. Try it out!

It'll try to figure out whatever you paste in, but if you have a list of student names that isn't loading correctly for any reason, send it to us and we'll tweak the logic.

| 19 August, 2008 |
As usual, some minor tweaks and fixes, PLUS we finished adding in a long-awaited feature on a few drills: ear training!
The new versions of the drills for Scales, Intervals, and Chords now include options to train your ear — listen to the scale, interval or chord and identify what you hear. The Scales drill also has a new mode where you identify the scale you see on the staff.
Just click the "Settings" button before you start the drill to select this new option.

Teachers: the strings fingerboard drills are now available for assignments, as are the new ear training options.

These changes are also all included in a new version of the standalone software (we'll be sending out a separate notice to software owners with details on how to download the new version), along with a few other bug fixes.

| 27 July, 2008 |
We've fixed up a few things in the violin drill (updated the audio, and made it possible to show the fingerboard horizontally as well -- click the "Settings" button to try it out!)... plus added in drills (and interactive theory pages) for viola, cello, and double bass.

The bass fingerboard still needs a little work: for now, it uses the same fingerboard image as the cello... but it should have different finger tapes. So -- if you have suggestions on how you'd like it to look, let us know!

These drills will be added to the downloadable software and teacher assignments soon.

| 02 April, 2008 |
This update adds a major feature: If you're a teacher with 75 or more students, you can now create multiple teacher accounts under your single subscription. This means you can now:
· create separate teacher accounts for all teachers using your subscription (or formerly using multiple subscriptions), each with their own sections, students, and assignments
· control the number of students each of the teachers will have (up to the total limit of your subscription)
· transfer administrative rights from your account to any of the new teacher accounts
Your account will be automatically upgraded when you sign in next; just click the "Teacher Admin" link to get started.

You'll also notice a change to the assignments page: now assignments that were due more than a month ago are hidden; just click the link at the bottom of the page to show all assignments again if you need them.
We're working on a more sophisticated way to organize your assignments, but this will help out long-time subscribers until that's ready!

We've also started implementing more automatic help when you try to use the drills with a browser that doesn't support Java for whatever reasons (disabled, not installed, or broken installation).

There were also many other small changes around the website. As always, let us know if you run into any problems!

| 20 February, 2008 |
There are a couple of bigger features rolling out soon, but two quick updates for the time being:
· The new violin fingerings drill now has audio.
· The audio for the rhythm drills has been replaced (the metronome intro is louder, and the dictation audio itself is much more pleasant to listen to).

| 08 February, 2008 |
Moving the site to new hosting has worked out well -- we had a few issues that were quickly sorted out, and now everything seems to be running smoothly -- plus now we're at around 1/8th of capacity, which is exactly where we wanted to be!
A few more updates rolled out over the past week and a half:
· Learn the violin fingerboard: there's a new drill for testing your skills, or you can explore violin fingerings if you're still learning the ropes.
· Students can now review all scores they've submitted.

| 12 January, 2008 |
There are some big changes -- but you hopefully won't notice most of them at all!
· We're moving the hosting of the site to a very fancy data center in Dallas, TX -- now we have a lot more room to grow.
· Much of the underlying workings of the site, the drills and the assignments has been reworked. There were some design problems that were making it very difficult to update options on the drills. This opens the door to a lot of other updates waiting in the wings!

Most of the changes that you'll really notice (and that you've been asking for, for a long time now...) are on the way; some are even already complete, we're just waiting to make sure we don't change too many things at one time.
So you can look forward to more announcements coming up soon!

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