Get Started with Music Theory Lessons

Tap Learn in the bottom nav. The lesson list is organised into chapters that unlock in sequence — complete earlier chapters to access later ones. Each chapter groups a set of related concepts: notes and the keyboard, intervals, scales, chords, keys, chord progressions, modes, and advanced harmony.

Tip Start at Chapter 0 — Getting Started. It's a short meta-lesson that teaches how the app's exercise types work, so you're not figuring that out mid-lesson.

Each lesson is a sequence of steps you move through one at a time. There are several step types:

• Context — explanatory text, often with a tip below
• Discover — you explore a concept on the keyboard before it's named
• Name — you learn the term for what you just discovered
• Exercise — answer a question to confirm your understanding
• Staff play — read a note from the staff and play it on the keyboard
• Listen — hear an audio example
• Freeplay — practice freely in a guided zone
• Summary — recap of key points

Tap Continue (or press any C on a MIDI keyboard) to advance between steps.

Lessons are narrated by default — each step is read aloud as you progress. Tap the speaker icon in the lesson toolbar to toggle narration. You can also change the narration voice in Settings → Narration.

Narration reads the lesson text as it appears, so you can follow along without reading everything yourself.

Tip Use narration at first to get oriented, then turn it off once you want to move at your own pace.

Tap the sparkles button (✦) at any point in a lesson to open Aria, your on-device AI music coach. Each lesson has 3 curated question presets — tap one and Aria answers immediately with an explanation tailored to that concept.

Aria can explain why a scale sounds the way it does, show a chord voicing on the keyboard, or suggest what to practice next — all without leaving the lesson.

Tip The preset questions are the fastest way to go deeper. Read the answer once you complete the step, so you have the context to understand it.

Completed lessons show a checkmark in the lesson list. Your accuracy from the last session and completion date are visible when you tap into any completed lesson. The progress card at the top of the Learn tab shows your current streak and recently completed lessons.

Chapters unlock automatically as you complete lessons — there's no minimum score required, just completion.

Below the structured chapters, the Play & Explore section contains open-ended exercises grouped by topic: Scales & Modes, Chords, Technique, and Jazz. These are not lectures — they guide you through a concept using hands-on keyboard interaction with no multiple choice.

Play & Explore exercises are always available regardless of chapter progress.