Duolingo's new Music platform will teach you the basics of playing tunes
Date:
Wed, 11 Oct 2023 05:00:34 +0000
Description:
Duolingo Music serves as an introduction for how to read notes and play songs on your iPhone.
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Its been seven long months since the rumors first cropped up but Duolingo has finally released Music courses to its education platform.
Duolingo Music, as its called, will teach you the basics of playing music through the help of a digital keyboard on your iPhone . You dont need to own an instrument. The lessons teach the names of each individual note and where theyre located on a piano. From there, Duolingo will show you how to read music and then "translate what you or hear" into songs. It'll eventually all coalesce into you learning how to play a full song. The courses will even
take the time to train your ear so you can distinguish specific notes and
tell whether theyre high-pitched or low.
As you can see, these classes get pretty involved. The primary goal of Duolingo Music is to establish a good foundation for students from which they can grow into more experienced musicians. Back to School
We asked Karen Chow, the Teaching/Curriculum Expert at Duolingo who created the courses, what was the thought process behind everything. She told us the company "wanted to focus on teaching music literacy in a fun and engaging way." Chow points out that other "foundations" teach music in a really "boring, dry fashion" so they aimed to do the opposite.
At the beginning of development, Duolingo identified the major tenets for their classes from the obvious, like playing instruments, to ear training. Once it narrowed things down, the company created lessons based on those
tents
Duolingo states there are hundreds of bite-sized lessons available with many interactive exercises. These aim to teach music incrementally and not
overload students with a flood of information. Some of the exercises include completing a music sequence and pairing up notes to audio played on a piano. Duolingo states it believes interactivity is vital to learning as it keepspeople focused and engaged. All this content is shown in the platforms signature brightly colored, bubbly UI. (Image credit: Duolingo)
In addition to the music classes, Duolingo Math is getting an update where users can learn real-world math skills from calculating tips to identifying patterns. The latter, according to a company representative, involves helping people understand the logic behind math. Plus, there will be courses to "sharpen [your] mental math" abilities, allowing you to calculate in your
head without needing to whip out the calculator app. Availability
Duolingo Music will be available exclusively to iOS devices in English and Spanish later this autumn. Users will receive in-app notifications letting them know the update is ready for download. There are plans to expand
Duolingo Music to Android users and other languages, too. However, the representative couldn't give us an exact date when this second patch will
roll out. Hopefully, it's very soon.
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