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Whether you already play an instrument or are just learning, Waay teaches you how to bring together notes into melodies, chords, progressions, and even songs. This is applied music theory—stuff you can take straight to your instrument and use. \n\n--\n\n“Best music theory learning app out there. I just want to say this app is completely amazing and an incredible amount of work must have gone into this. I have been looking for an app just like this to complete my learning between music classes and this has everything I need and more. I highly recommend!” —BigMat74, Oct. 20, 2023\n\n\"Absolutely phenomenal. This is better than any YouTube video, podcast, or music theory book I have read. Within 48 hours using this app I have actually comprehended what is being taught far beyond any previous comprehension for past products. Honestly they could charge more than double the amount and it would be totally worth it.\" —Artice, May 3, 2022\n\n\"It's obvious a lot of time, love and energy has gone into this app. It's very well thought out, easy to follow and keeps you coming back for more. The developer is super friendly and answers any questions you have. It's clear he has a real passion for what he does and genuinely wants to help out. Awesome work all round\" —thatboyswiss, Jan. 8, 2019\n\n\"I have probably spent thousands of dollars perfecting tone on pedals, instruments, amps and apps, posters, printed media, online courses. The BEST PURCHASE has been your Waay app.\" —A.P., Apr. 1, 2020\n\n--\n\nYou're writing a song, but keep getting stuck. What chords sound good together? What melody fits those chords? Waay helps you master these skills with its interactive exercises, bite-sized video lessons, musical examples, and progress-tracking tools. The Practice Space recommends a great time to practice each of your new skills too. Plus there's no Internet connection required! Perfect for your subway commutes and plane adventures. \n\nHere’s what you’ll learn in each course:\n\nCourse 1: Melodies\n• 8 video lessons, 11 interactive exercises\n• The 12 notes in music and how we talk about them\n• Intervals: Steps, half-steps, and moving between notes\n• Keys: Learn what notes sound good together and hear audio examples \n• Scale building: Build major and minor scales from scratch\n• Songwriting: How do we apply theory to write music?\n• Circle of fifths: The super-fast way to build scales... and more\n\nCourse 2: Chords\n• 8 video lessons, 12 interactive exercises\n• Thirds and fifths: The building blocks of chords\n• Build major, minor, and diminished chords\n• Songwriting: We write a song melody-first and then add just the right chords\n• Magic formula: Which chords actually sound good together?\nAlso included:\n• Relative majors & Fast minor scales\n\nCourses 3 & 4: Progressions\n• 10 video lessons, 30 interactive exercises\n• The fundamental relationship between keys and chords\n• Identify the key of a chord progression with six speedy tricks\n• Shortlisting: Find chords to fit your chord progressions\n• Musical judgement: Decide which chords *you* like best in your progressions\n• ii V: Why is the ii V progression so important anyways?\n• Choosing accidentals: Is it a sharp or flat? Learn that here\n\nCourses 5 & 6: Intervals\n• 10 video lessons, 20 interactive exercises\n• Learn the complete set of intervals, from unison to 14th\n• Inversions: How to flip intervals upside-down—and why you'd want to\n• Enharmonics: Different names for the same note\n• Compound intervals: Intervals bigger than an octave!\n• Transposition: How to move songs to different keys\n• Augmented chords and intervals\n\nThe Practice Space, first seven videos/exercises, and device syncing all come free. Access all content through a one-time purchase or subscription. Get in touch at tenkettles.com/contact if you have any questions—happy to help! -Alex\n\nTERMS OF USE: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/","facts":{"developer_id":807222476,"developer_url":"http://www.tenkettles.com/waay","first_released":"2015-08-06T07:00:00Z","support_url":"http://www.tenkettles.com/waay","privacy_url":"https://www.tenkettles.com/waay/privacy-policy/","website_url":"http://www.tenkettles.com/waay","app_version":"3.6.3","release_notes":"The \"Foundations\" exercise has been tweaked in response to some great feedback (thanks, William M.!), and an issue with the \"Repeat lesson\" button has been fixed. Feedback or questions? 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