Beginner to advanced students can analyze their musical intelligence in a strategy game!

• Understand the relationships between musical devices
• Prepare for the study of composition and harmony
• Levels range from beginner to advanced
• Genres "played" include classical, rock, jazz, polka/march, country, latin/caribbean, religious, and R&B

A game and a lesson all in one, MusIQ Challenger starts like a combination of scrabble and chess with each player placing letters (notes) on the board. Players move these notes around to make musical patterns, scales and chords.

Over time, you begin to make better moves. Eventually, you can complete several musical patterns within a single move - then it's time to move on to the next level.

What you learn

The game addresses traditional barriers to learning music theory. Most students have good ears but their knowledge of music structures is often under developed, making creating or reproducing music a struggle.

The game enables students to learn the connections between intervals, chords, scales and semitone building blocks since each ‘move&rsquo parallels a musical relationship.

While improving their strategies, players become comfortable with musical labels and are constantly associating them with corresponding sounds. Consequently, the recognition and construction of interval, chord, and scale motifs becomes effortless while playing their instrument of choice.

For advanced musicians

At the advanced level, players decode a mystery selection of music selected randomly from several distinct genres.