Bass Staff Puzzle

Goal:

These modules help the player to memorize the position of any music note on the Bass and Treble staves. Watch video tutorial.

 

Rules

Use Left or Right arrow on the computer keyboard to place music notes on corresponding lines and spaces of the Bass or Treble staff. Use the Space key to make a note fall faster if the note is in the correct position. The correctly positioned note images compose a picture and give you points. Every completed picture opens a part of the portrait of Mozart in the right part of the screen. You have 49 different pictures to open Mozart's portrait and finish the module. Beginners should start by only playing for a short time. Please, contact our professionals for your customized guide lines playing this module!

 Computer control keys

LEFT arrow  -         Move falling notes left or down.

RIGHT arrow  -       Move falling notes right or up.

Space key   -          Make note fall faster.

A    -                        Switch the program to Alphabetic (A, B, C ...) note names

I     -                         Switch the program to Italian (Solfeggio: Do, Re, Mi...) note  names

Ctr-X   -                   Exit the program.

 Note name convention

Soft Mozart^®uses both Alphabetical music notation - C, D, E, F, G, A and B, and “Solfeggio” or Italian music notation - Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Ti.

 Program Keys

To switch to the Alphabetical name convention press computer key A.

To switch to the Italian name convention press computer key I.

 All Italian names have special mnemonic symbols to recognize and remember note names:

We recommend...

...the use of the Italian (Solfeggio) note name convention by any beginner or child. Its note symbols are very easy to identify and remember, even by  those who can't read yet. And most importantly, Italian note names are specially designed for singing. The singing of note names helps any beginner to form a crucial musical skill to connect a pitch of a note with its name, and tie together his or her ear, voice and brain.

Tips

• Play several notes in a row correctly (the number depends on the module stage) and the program will switch to the next level of difficulty. You will get more points for every correctly played note, but the notes will move faster.
• If you make two mistakes in a row, the module will switch to a lower level of difficulty

Few words...

These modules train and develop a basic skill in music reading - to attribute any note name to a corresponding line on the Bass and Treble staves. The original design asks the player for a momentary reaction in recognizing correct lines. In the advanced level only the subconscious vision of the correspondence of lines and notes may help the player finish the module successfully. An advanced student can finish this module in 25 minutes (13 minutes module time); beginners should start by only playing for a short time. Please, contact our professionals for your customized guidelines for playing this module!