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Students not quite ready for MacGAMUT?
Then start them with "MacGAMUT Lite"
using the Prep Presets and Libraries

For some time, high school instructors have been asking if we planned to publish a special edition of MacGAMUT software geared to their students, a sort of "MacGAMUT Lite," which would offer a more forgiving environment for pre-college students to start work on aural skills.  We've always resisted publishing special-purpose editions because of the added headaches of maintaining multiple versions.  Besides, any instructor can use the software on the MacGAMUT Instructor Disk to customize the User Disk software for students at any level.

While many instructors choose to reset the software's operational parameters using the Set Params program, few have undertaken the more time-consuming task of authoring and entering customized libraries using the Enter/Edit MD/RD and Enter/Edit HD programs.  Since our tech support wizard, Bill Dilts, has taught high school theory and ear-training and has a Level 3 Certificate from Capital University's Kodaly Institute, we asked him to design presets and libraries specifically for beginning musicians-in-training.

Bill has done an excellent job of creating an alternative to MacGAMUT's Original Presets.  Bill's Prep Presets allow students more hearings and greater latitude for error, and his Prep Rhythms, Prep Melodies, and Prep Progressions libraries are organized along Kodaly principles.  The Intervals, Scales, and Chords components each begin with additional levels introducing new materials more gradually than in MacGAMUT's Original Presets.

The Rhythmic Dictation library consists of nineteen levels, beginning with quarter notes and rests in simple meter and progressing to exercises that include sixteenth notes in compound meter.  The Melodic Dictation library include twenty-six progressive levels of exercises based on folksongs, beginning with melodies in treble clef using only three different pitches in the keys of C, F, and G and gradually introducing bass clef and additional scale degrees and keys into the melodic mix.  The Harmonic Dictation library consists of twenty levels, beginning with a level of progressions consisting solely of I and V chords in C major, with additional keys and chordal materials introduced gradually as students progress through the levels.

For anyone working with beginning students, these Prep Presets and Libraries provide an excellent starting point, preparing students to tackle the more stringent demands of MacGAMUT's Original Presets.  Of course, instructors can always make changes to the Prep Presets and edit or augment the Prep libraries, if they choose, just as they can modify MacGAMUT's Original Presets and libraries.  These Prep Presets and the Prep libraries are included on the MacGAMUT 6 Instructor Disk and can be used with any MacGAMUT 6 User Disk.