How can you be sure?

Studying on the internet: A charming idea, but is it working properly? How can you be sure that your student, or your child or you yourself for that matter, have learned anything?

Well, there is an old fashioned way: Tests

Tests have never been the students favorites but they work!

Therefore we are adding tests all the time on www.teachmeaboutmusic.com

Parents, teachers and the self-studying student can review their test results, repeat the tests and try for a better score, send the results to anyone and in such a manner make their studying more meaningful and lasting.

Try out some of our free tests on www.teachmeaboutmusic.com

What do you REALLY know about music?

all the best

Stefan Stefansson

The Chaos on the Internet

Is the internet a perfect place to learn and study?
Well, if you tell your student to check this or that out on Youtube he will undoubtedly get lost for hours watching something that is of no relevance to what you told him to do! The student will have watched the singing pigeon, the dancing rhino and two episodes of Friends before completing the assignment you gave him!
To use the vast resource of the internet you need a travel guide... a map telling you where the worthwhile places are! The place where everything is supposed to take no time at all is also the place of wasted hours. This is a new problem in the history of man's search for information, how to select the things NOT to read and find the important information that will take the student in the right direction.
This is one of the major goals of www.teachmeaboutmusic.com. How to set up an educational environment where one thing leads logically from another. Where the setup of information is useful and direct to the point. No singing pigeons nor dancing rhinos...however funny that might be, they will always be there for later viewing.
All the best
Stefan at www.teachmeaboutmusic.com

Learning Music

During my years in music college I always found it strange to read books on music. Whenever I heard the musical examples played, live or via recording I would understand much better. And it's another type of understanding, in a way logical, even though it's hard to discuss this logic. It's the understanding that makes you go: Oh, that's what you mean!

This is one of the main reasons I started TeachMeAboutMusic.com

Kids and older students going to music classes without ever having heard Mozart, Oscar Peterson, Benny Goodman or even the Beatles. If you want to study music you should listen to it. And the more styles and genres, the better.

By using www.teachmeaboutmusic.com the student is able to go systematically through music history, music theory (learn to read music) learn melodies: songs and lyrics in a visual manner, that is: You watch and listen to the music as you learn.

Have a try, tell us what you think.

all the best

Stefan Stefansson
B.M.Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston Mass