Audible Genius Courses For Educators
“It moves at a great pace, and the logical sequence of the lessons truly trains the ears.” Keith Hancock – 2017 Grammy Music Educator of the Year
“Audible Genius Courses are The Quickest Path To Music Fundamentals Mastery For A Class”
Bring All Your Students To An Even Playing Field – Use our courses as a semester prerequisite or base your syllabus on our structure and make sure your whole class masters the fundamentals (sound design, beat making, composition). So you can focus on distilling your unique knowledge of more advanced concepts.
Say Goodbye to the Tedious Task of Making Sure Your Students Practice – By incorporating motivational and engagement techniques from video games – and by being a blast to go through – our courses motivate students to practice their core fundamentals.
Super Rewarding For The Student – Our award-winning curriculum makes the learning process linear. This gives students a rewarding sense of progression and certainty that their practice will pay off.
Self-Learning – Let them go at their own pace on their own time, or integrate it directly into your curriculum and track their progress centrally to keep everyone on the same page.
Simplify Your Grading Process – Grading students’ understanding of sound design and music theory can be subjective. Our program calculates exactly how accurate students are when learning core concepts. Track the progress of all your students in a centralized dashboard.
Certificate of Completion – Verify that your students have successfully completed the syllabus. Random challenges make cheating completion very difficult.
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1. Save Time on Designing Courses With Our Proven Method
Enjoy a flipped classroom model: let our video lessons teach your class. We’ll keep them engaged, while you help the students who need it most.
Reclaim Your Personal Time – No need to spend your weekends designing intricate lessons plans and assignments. The entire course is laid out step-by-step for you. It builds upon itself in a logical way that feels natural, obvious, and rewarding.
Get your students to know the musical rules at an intuitive level with our unique learn-by-doing, all-by-ear practice method. So you can focus on the best part: nurturing their creativity.
Simplify Your Grading Process – We’ve already graded completion for you! All you have to do is check in on your students’ progress in your central dashboard. Also, you can easily access students’ original creations without the technical hassle of exporting, sending, or uploading.
“I integrated Syntorial into my curriculum with fantastic results. Syntorial is a game-changer for learning sound synthesis. The fact that it provides hands-on experience to each student, almost like personal lessons, really helped me move faster through the topics as a class. ‘
Lucas Schwyter
Music Recording and Technology Instructor, Chabot College
2. Skip The Boring Parts of Teaching With Our Learn-By-Doing Method
Cut time creating assignments. If you’ve got class time covered, our courses can easily be used as supplemental homework. Students get the quantity of practice required to internalize the most important musical elements. And you don’t have to spend hours creating assignments from scratch.
Self-Learning Homework Assignments – Our courses are perfect for homework assignments, enabling students to progress at their own pace and on their own schedule. The combination of hands-on practice with clear and immediate feedback makes our programs significantly more effective than traditional online tutorials, ensuring students receive a comprehensive and engaging learning experience.
Stop Wasting Time Trying To Bring All Students To The Same Level. Our courses are perfect as pre-term assignments, to ensure every student starts with a solid foundation in the fundamentals (sound design, beat making, composition). This approach allows you to focus on advanced concepts, confident that all students have an equal understanding of the basics.
“Syntorial and Building Blocks have greatly helped me to entirely restructure my music tech course as a “flipped” classroom…allowing for class time to be a fully creative time, hands-on time with instructor support. The ear training focus of Syntorial and Building Blocks engages students’ minds and ears in a unique and powerful way. It is the tool that will break students free of endlessly scrolling presets and loop libraries and more deeply engage their brains in musical thinking.‘
Paul Kinsman
Director of Instrumental Music, Northampton Public Schools
Which Audible Genius Course Is Best for Your Institution?
Syntorial: Make Teaching Sound Design Intuitive
Synthesis is hard – and it’s even harder to teach.
Traditional Teaching Doesn’t Make Sound Design Intuitive
Even if your students understand everything about synths, can they use their knowledge to recreate any synth patch they hear? Without hours of structured and immersive practice, without exact and immediate feedback – probably not.
Ear training is required to create an intuitive understanding of synthesis. And it’s hard to get enough ear training without the right tools.
A Solid Curriculum That Works
Syntorial is a video game-like, learn-by-doing training software that will teach your students to program synthesizer patches by ear so they can
Syntorial teaches 64 of the most common synth parameters that your students will find on most synths. This gives students the ability to create the most sought-after patch types like leads, basses, pads, keys, plucks, and more.
Syntorial’s nearly 200 lessons combine video demonstrations with interactive challenges to teach your students how to program synthesizer patches by ear. They’ll get hands-on experience programming patches on a built-in soft synth and learn everything they need to know to start making their own sounds with ease.
Syntorial trains your students’ ears to recognize how each control shapes and manipulates sound. They’ll be able to take the sounds they hear and re-create them on any subtractive or wavetable synthesizer on the market.
“In all of my research, I haven’t found another piece of software that teaches synthesis as well as Syntorial. It moves at a great pace, and the logical sequence of the lessons truly trains the ears to hear the slight differences in tone when adjusting the various parameters. It is the perfect tool for anyone looking to increase their understanding of the complex world of sound design.’
Keith Hancock
2017 Grammy Music Educator of the Year
Building Blocks: Teach Music Theory Directly In The DAW
The Typical Curriculum Feels Unorganized
Music Theory and Composition Are Overwhelming
Have you ever spent the majority of your class teaching a music theory concept? One quarter of the class falls asleep. Another quarter of the class doesn’t understand. The third quarter forgot it over the weekend. And the last quarter of the class gets lost when they have to transfer concepts from the music staff to their DAW.
This happens because:
- Lectures cause information overload.
- Students don’t get enough practice to achieve mastery.
- Assignments are unrelated and boring.
Theory and composition should be taught directly in the DAW – not the staff.
Teaching how to use Music Making Software (DAW) and composition at the same time can feel nearly impossible in a classroom setting. You know that getting good at music requires focused practice, hundreds of repetitions, and hours of experimentation. How are you supposed to design your curriculum to give your students all of those things together in a guided and engaging way?
Building Blocks Simplifies the DAW
Students start out with only the kick drum, snare, and hi-hat to avoid overwhelm. After making progress, they are introduced to new musical elements like bass, chords, and melody. While simplified and minimal, our DAW is designed to prepare students for using industry-standard DAWs like Ableton Live, Logic, and FL Studio.
Modernized Music Theory and Composition
Building Blocks teaches over ~60 hours worth of training on how to write drum patterns, basslines, chord progressions, melodies, inversions, expanding the drums, and more in a software studio environment, using modernized music theory and ear training.
The nearly 200 lessons combine video demonstrations with interactive challenges to teach your students how to build the core components of a song all by ear. They’ll get hands-on experience creating original compositions with 120+ create-your-own challenges and learn everything they need to know to start building their own compositions and find their preferred style.
‘Building Blocks is really helping me to understand better music theory, specially training my ear to understand the music better. I never saw a course so well planned as this.‘
A Proven, Award-Winning Method
“The most comprehensive and fun tool for learning synthesizer programming, hands down.”
“The best training in synth sound design we’ve come across. A unique and fun way to train your ears in re-creating synth sounds.”
“Syntorial is the most direct route between hearing a sound in your head and knowing how to bring it to life.”
All The Reasons Why Audible Genius Courses Are So Effective With Students
1. Music Theory For 2024
With our courses, we’ve thrown out the traditional music theory rule book and created a new interactive approach that’s tailored to the needs of software-based music students.
Traditional music theory takes place in the centuries-old music staff and is loaded with information that doesn’t always apply to a music software environment. So our course takes a streamlined need-to-know approach, removing the music staff and replacing it with the Piano Roll.
Learning music theory in the Piano Roll is crucial for DAW-based musicians. The Piano Roll is a note-editing interface found in today’s most popular DAWs. So you’ll be learning in an environment that you can actually use to create music in your every-day music-making process.
Learn more about Building Blocks’ unique approach to teaching music theory.
2. Favors Practice, Naturally
The best way to learn is to do; the best way to improve is to do it over and over. By incorporating motivational and engagement techniques from video games – and by being a blast to go through – our courses favor students’ thorough practice on core fundamentals.
3. An Engaging and Immersive Way to Learn
After a quick video lesson, students dive straight into applying what they’ve learned. The difficulty scales at a rate that is challenging, yet confidently within reach. The instant feedback loop of this gamified learning process makes learning fun and endlessly rewarding.
4. Applicable to the Real World
Our courses give students so much practice with music composition and sound design that they can confidently recreate the sounds, chord progressions, drum patterns, etc. they hear. Universal skills they can apply to any Synthesizer, any music-making software (Ableton Live, FL Studio, Reaper, Pro Tools, etc.).
This ability enables them to express themselves musically or find employment in their respective industry.
5. No Chaotic Technical Difficulties
No more making sure that all students run the same version of Ableton Live or FL Studio, or they have the correct licenses, etc.
- Building Blocks runs right in your browser, so you don’t have to download anything. And our simplified DAW makes it easy to avoid glitchy settings that get in productivity’s way. Always access the latest version of the course: we are continuously improving the software, and the upgrades are rolled out seamlessly without your intervention.
- Syntorial installs on any Mac, PC, or Ipad, and you can easily keep the students’ progress synced across devices
‘Syntorial is one of the best foundational courses for anyone looking to truly master synthesis. It breaks down complex tasks into a series of easy and fun steps, while combining theory, the learning and the practical side of synthesis.‘
Most Frequent Questions
We work with music schools, universities, polytechs, not-for-profits, and music academies, and are open to working with other types of educational institutions.
We offer educational and volume-based discounts for your school. Pricing is based on student count per term, and number of computers/tablets. When you reach out to us, we’ll be happy to discuss the details with you.
For Building Blocks, yes, the students need a continuous Internet access. Syntorial can be used offline once installed.
Yes, Building Blocks work on both tablet and Desktop, and Syntorial has a native Ipad app.
Absolutely! You can try out Syntorial by requesting a free demo. And you can start a free Building Blocks trial by registering here.