Waay: Learn music theory 4+
Perfect for beginners
Ten Kettles Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Music theory can be empowering, exciting, and one of the biggest tools in your creative arsenal. Whether you already play an instrument or are just learning, Waay teaches you how to bring together notes into melodies, chords, progressions, and even songs. This is applied music theory—stuff you can take straight to your instrument and use.
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“Best music theory learning app out there. I just want to say this app is completely amazing and an incredible amount of work must have gone into this. I have been looking for an app just like this to complete my learning between music classes and this has everything I need and more. I highly recommend!” —BigMat74, Oct. 20, 2023
"Absolutely phenomenal. This is better than any YouTube video, podcast, or music theory book I have read. Within 48 hours using this app I have actually comprehended what is being taught far beyond any previous comprehension for past products. Honestly they could charge more than double the amount and it would be totally worth it." —Artice, May 3, 2022
"It's obvious a lot of time, love and energy has gone into this app. It's very well thought out, easy to follow and keeps you coming back for more. The developer is super friendly and answers any questions you have. It's clear he has a real passion for what he does and genuinely wants to help out. Awesome work all round" —thatboyswiss, Jan. 8, 2019
"I have probably spent thousands of dollars perfecting tone on pedals, instruments, amps and apps, posters, printed media, online courses. The BEST PURCHASE has been your Waay app." —A.P., Apr. 1, 2020
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You're writing a song, but keep getting stuck. What chords sound good together? What melody fits those chords? Waay helps you master these skills with its interactive exercises, bite-sized video lessons, musical examples, and progress-tracking tools. The Practice Space recommends a great time to practice each of your new skills too. Plus there's no Internet connection required! Perfect for your subway commutes and plane adventures.
Here’s what you’ll learn in each course:
Course 1: Melodies
• 8 video lessons, 11 interactive exercises
• The 12 notes in music and how we talk about them
• Intervals: Steps, half-steps, and moving between notes
• Keys: Learn what notes sound good together and hear audio examples
• Scale building: Build major and minor scales from scratch
• Songwriting: How do we apply theory to write music?
• Circle of fifths: The super-fast way to build scales… and more
Course 2: Chords
• 8 video lessons, 12 interactive exercises
• Thirds and fifths: The building blocks of chords
• Build major, minor, and diminished chords
• Songwriting: We write a song melody-first and then add just the right chords
• Magic formula: Which chords actually sound good together?
Also included:
• Relative majors & Fast minor scales
Courses 3 & 4: Progressions
• 10 video lessons, 30 interactive exercises
• The fundamental relationship between keys and chords
• Identify the key of a chord progression with six speedy tricks
• Shortlisting: Find chords to fit your chord progressions
• Musical judgement: Decide which chords *you* like best in your progressions
• ii V: Why is the ii V progression so important anyways?
• Choosing accidentals: Is it a sharp or flat? Learn that here
Courses 5 & 6: Intervals
• 10 video lessons, 20 interactive exercises
• Learn the complete set of intervals, from unison to 14th
• Inversions: How to flip intervals upside-down—and why you'd want to
• Enharmonics: Different names for the same note
• Compound intervals: Intervals bigger than an octave!
• Transposition: How to move songs to different keys
• Augmented chords and intervals
The Practice Space, first seven videos/exercises, and device syncing all come free. Access all content through a one-time purchase or subscription. Get in touch at tenkettles.com/contact if you have any questions—happy to help! -Alex
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What’s New
Version 3.6.0
If we learn something deeply special and deeply useful, but then forget it a few weeks later, did we really accomplish anything at all? I'm not so sure. Thankfully, Waay has the Practice Space to turn everything you learn here into long-term skills. These aren't lessons that will fade! And this new version of Waay takes the Practice Space to the next level:
• Daily updates. Exercise freshness is now updated just once per day. Once you've refreshed your skills for the day, you'll be all up-to-date until the next day or later.
• Smooth scheduling. Have you ever had a day with *lots* of exercise reviews? Enough to make you a little unmotivated? We've updated the review scheduling algorithm to smooth out heavy days, leading to a much more even—and motivating—practice schedule.
• Performance. If you're a dedicated, long-time Waay user, you might have noticed a little lag here and there while Waay calculates freshness from your extensive practice history. Well, no more! The algorithm is now much more speedy. Same goes for both your progress graph and syncing—much faster.
• Lots more…
• If you've ever wanted to sort the Practice Space exercises by freshness, you can do that now; date formats have been simplified a little bit too (e.g., 279 days is now just 9 months).
• Wrong answers in your exercises are now made more clear with a strikethrough (Thanks, Richard!).
• Finally, the Transpositions I exercise has been refined to fix a bug (Thanks, Jon!) and to present a more realistic subset of musical keys.
As always, please get in touch if you run into any issues, have feedback, or just want to say hi! Tap "Get in touch" in the sidebar or visit tenkettles.com/contact. -Alex
Ratings and Reviews
Highly underrated app
I think this app is one of the best in the App Store for music theory. I don’t usually comment or give ratings ever, but I just have to make people more aware. I feel that they took a lot of time to make the videos and the games they have to make sure that you actually understand and memorize the lesson all together. I have looked at many videos on music theory and the circle of fifth and I feel that this is the most understanding way that it has been broken down to me. How you can’t continue the lesson unless you’ve reached a certain quota is perfect. The way the lessons are broken down into 5-6 minute videos is great for someone like me who loses his attention too easily. It always kept me coming back and wanting to learn more. The only problem I can see coming from the app is that maybe main hub screen is a little boring and can make you think that you aren’t gonna have fun while learning but I was really surprised when I started watching the first video. I hope to see more lessons in the future from this app!
Great App for Beginning Theory with a focus on Songwriting/chord theory
I really needed to up my game with theory. This is something i have just always wanted to be better at. I love that this app slowly builds and allows you to practice as much as you want to get faster and better with the knowledge…chords, key signatures, major, minor, and on….I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this app for someone who is starting out and brushing up. I would say it is helpful if you also are learning an instrument/have access to one… so you can practice the information in that way if you are more applied learner. I also recommend taking notes and using the practices that are available to help the knowledge settle in. If you follow the lesson plan and treat this like a real course and put in a little effort you WILL get better.
Exactly what I needed
This app is incredible. If you’re anything like me, you’ve been wanting to learn music theory for a while and have been putting it off. Recently, I’ve had the desire to dig deep and really learn music theory. I was searching for a course that was clear, concise, and guided. This app fits the bill 100%. The lessons are very well presented and the exercises are a fun way to test and hone your skills. The developer has done an amazing job by gamifying the process and making your progress feel tangible and substantial. Then there’s the cherry on top: this app is a one-time purchase and the developer doesn’t collect your data! Seriously, this kind of honest business practice is unheard of these days on the App Store. A big thank you to the developer, and his two beagles! SUPPORT THIS MAN!
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Information
- Seller
- Ten Kettles Inc.
- Size
- 221.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2015–2024 Ten Kettles Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Full Access (Monthly) $7.99
- Full Access (Yearly) $59.99
- Teacher Mode $2.99
- Full Access $109.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
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