Patent ID: 6464508
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A method of teaching music theory comprising:providing a plurality of game pieces, the game pieces corresponding to notes of a music scale, the game pieces being arrangeable in a manner in which each of the game pieces is adjacent to at least one of the other of the game pieces; assigning a first orientation to correspond to a musical whole step, the first orientation constituting a first spatial relationship between adjacent game pieces; assigning a second orientation to correspond to a musical half step, the second orientation constituting a second spatial relationship between adjacent game pieces, the second spatial relationship differing from the first spatial relationship; arranging the game pieces in a manner so that a first one of the game pieces is adjacent to at least one of the other of the game pieces in the first orientation and a second one of the game pieces is adjacent to at least one of the other of the game pieces in the second orientation, the step of arranging comprising using the first and second orientations to arrange the game pieces to correspond to notes of a first music scale with the game pieces corresponding to the different notes of the first music scale; rearranging the game pieces into a second arrangement with the game pieces corresponding to notes of a second music scale, the second music scale differeing from the first music scale, each of the game pieces when in the second arrangement being adjacent to at least one of the other of the game pieces in either the first or second orientations.