Why is KLearnNotes2 such a good teacher?

Preset lesson structure

  • preset lessons try to teach you positions of "guide" notes: C and G, and then to teach you other notes relative to these two

  • you can change testnotes by clicking name checkboxes and moving range sliders ; play with them for a while to see how they influence which notes are testnotes

Intelligent questioning: you can learn really fast! :)

This program tries to focus tests on notes which are your weak points:

  1. notes which are harder for you are questioned more frequently

    EXAMPLE: in Lesson 01 answer first four questions (which is a forced first run); then when there is a note G1 wait a full minute before answering; then answer other questions as fast as you can; you will notice, that G1 is asked about almost every second question.

    RESULT: notes you had to think longer about before answering are questioned more frequently; questions answered fast are less frequent in future

  2. if you make a mistake, this note is forced-scheduled for a few questions in future

    EXAMPLE: in Lesson 01 keep answering G on all questions; this means you will answer right if the question was G and wrong if it was C; after a while you will notice that you are asked about C-notes only! Even if you start answering right.

    RESULT: if you made a mistake about a note, this note will be more frequently asked about in future

  3. if you make a mistake, this note is more probable to be asked about even after the forced-scheduling ended

Vertical and horizontal reading

When reading music score one reads notes both in vertical direction (few notes in one chord) and in horizontal direction (note-by-note or chord-by-chord, especially in sight-reading). KLearnNotes2 trains both:

  • in vertical position tests all question notes are shown at a fixed position in the middle of the screen; when you train in this mode you get used to immediate recognition of vertical distances between notes;

    also, in this mode you have unlimited time for answer; there is a speed goal set, but it is only informative (there is a red frame around your speed when you answer too slowly); therefore, this is a better introductory exercise

  • in horizontal sight-reading tests each note is shown at the right edge of the staff and moves to the left; when you train in this mode you get used to expecting next note to the right;

    also, in this mode you have limited time for an answer - you have to answer before the question note hits a clef sign; also, wrong answers are ignored - you can correct your answer as long as the note didn't crash on the clef yet; this gives more game-like feeling and forces quick answers

In future KLearnNotes2 will have vertical exercise extended to recognition of whole chords, and horizontal exercise extended to reading a sequence of notes.