WV
Aug 20, 2020
Course was quite tough , eventually I had given up on this course, but consistency made me learn and I went through rigorous learning in finding the chords and middle C notes. Yes I made it in the end
CM
Jul 22, 2020
Fantastic lectures and very easy-to-understand, hard to master lessons. This course will leave you with a much deeper understanding of music if you are a beginner to music theory like I am.
By Diana E M
•Jan 4, 2020
Great course!
By Francisco J T M
•Nov 8, 2020
Excelente!!!
By Saran S
•May 26, 2020
Good course
By Sofia F L
•Feb 19, 2023
Excellent!
By tunji a
•Feb 7, 2023
Excellent!
By Jing Z
•Oct 18, 2020
very good!
By Heather R
•Jul 1, 2020
Wonderful!
By Noriko T
•May 3, 2020
Thank you.
By aswan z
•Dec 26, 2017
amazing!!!
By Juan G J
•Apr 2, 2023
Excelent!
By JESUS A R C
•Oct 8, 2020
EXCELENTE
By Peter A
•Jul 22, 2020
Excellent
By Barış Ş
•Sep 13, 2020
perfect.
By JAVIER R A
•Aug 15, 2023
Perfect
By Md T I R T
•May 7, 2020
Great
By Hai y
•Jun 8, 2018
TQ
By Christopher M S
•Jun 19, 2020
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By Patrick A C
•Apr 28, 2024
The Good: Quite simply, it's the first music theory course I've tried (and I've tried maybe half a dozen over some 20 years) that I could actually grasp. Please understand that I've always been a good student; I graduated in the top 10% of my undergraduate class and went to one of the best schools in my field (another Big Ten, incidentally), and I taught statistics and research methods at another highly reputable program, *but*... my side passion of music has always been stymied by the difficulty of learning theory. I finally feel like I have a grasp on the basics because of this course, and that's big. The Not-As-Good: It was still more difficult than anticipated, and took me more time (almost three months) than anticipated. Granted, my life has been especially busy at work and home, but even accounting for that, this course was still a struggle to find time. I really think it should be at least an 8-week course. The few examples were great, but it could use more. Heck, maybe fill it into a 12-week course. It feels a little undercooked; more "here's why" and connecting dots would be great. Even still, I'm very glad I did this. A few changes like those above could make this even better. But hey, I came to learn a few things, and I did.
By Barsha B
•Jan 29, 2021
First of all, Kudos to Professor Taggart for explaining everything to the best of his ability. However, I have to say that stating this course to be of beginner level is not apt at all. One must have had some exposure to music theory and sheet notation to get along well with the course. I know Indian Classical and wanted to learn Western Music to draw similarities. It is why I took this course. Although I did learn quite a bit, I am more confused than learned. But I do feel that it is a great course for someone who had learnt music at some point of their life and wants to refresh their knowledge. But I wouldn't recommend it to an absolute beginner.
By Bill A
•Jun 15, 2020
Overall, a very good course. One technical issue, one programmatic - technically, several of the inline questions (e.g., Metric Notation in Practice, the question would appear asking to identify time signatures with the answers, yet the pop-up covered/blocked the notation, making it difficult to answer correctly); programmatically - the feedback on the quizzes was lacking, the incorrect answers were only marked incorrect, without feedback. Even after multiple attempts and continuing to get the same question incorrect, actual feedback would be beneficial, as in a college course, because something is clearly being missed.
By See X H
•Dec 9, 2021
I found this course really useful for me, it was quite concise and there were not a lot of unnecessary or redundant information like some courses tend to do. I took theory tests before but have forgotten all of them so this was good to refine my memory. Though, I'm not sure how this would be for beginners. If I wasn't already a pianist being able to read music I think I would not have understood anything. I think there should have been more explanations on this, especially for people unfamiliar with using the piano as a reference.
By Christine P
•Dec 8, 2020
Loved the course. Loved the opportunity, during this pandemic, to apply myself to something I had never learned even after 30+ years in the music business. I need more, more of everything here! It was fast paced, and I missed a deadline, because of the crazy election and losing 2 close friends (musicians) that we were unable to grieve. I happen to be one of the local go-to's when people need consoling, so I lost time there. But, overall .. GREAT OPPORTUNITY! THANK YOU, Cousin Brucie (affectionately)!
Christine
By Gustavo S
•Jun 15, 2020
Parte da transcrição não parece correta e a maneira como os exercícios estão ativando nas lições está bagunçada, fazendo com que precisemos voltar a lição para conferir alguma imagem a que o exercício se refere. As imagens talvez pudessem ser mais didáticas de maneira que pudessemos acompanhar melhor o raciocínio do professor nas lições, já que alguns alunos podem não conseguir atingir a capacidade pretendida por ele logo ao longo do curso e então não ter em certos dados fluidos na mente sempre.
By Christopher G
•Apr 24, 2020
Really good introduction to music theory. First week is difficult for those that are semi tone deaf (like me). Really doesn't explain how to hear for certain patterns in music. Rest of the course is really informative. As someone who has played piano their whole life, the topics covered were easy to follow and easy to apply to my own playing. Highly Recommend!