[beezischillin]

A small anecdote: Back when I was still a little kid I had an awful music teacher in school. He would throw all the theory on the whiteboard but never explained how it actually relates to the music itself. I would've loved to know so I asked how this strange mathematical stuff of 4/4ths makes music and he told me to learn it or I'd fail but nothing actually relating to my question. So I always had a bit of antipathy towards the subject and never looked it up or even asked somebody afterwards, even to just satisfy my younger self's curiosity because the whole subject's been tainted.

If those classes ever even mildly resembled even how well this little interactive tutorial presents and explain thing I probably would've joined the school chorus or learned to play instrument in an extra-curricular fashion. Which I regret never doing.

Eventually when I got my hands on a copy of Reason at age 11 or 12 (can't remember) and started messing around with it, I got to a point where I kind of understood the concepts -- the whole process was kind of similar to how this tutorial is put together, it just took way longer to figure out. :)

[parenthesis]

What you needed was something more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygn7ORgPbEE

(some snippets of composer/conductor/pianist Leonard Berstein explaining some musical concepts to young people using examples from pop/rock music).

[drorco]

Sometimes teachers have a negative net value huh?

Brings up the point that if the education system can't properly teach a subject, maybe we're all better better off with it just not teaching the subject.