Teachers can identify short-comings of any music program, based predominately on the limited amount of time available to them and their students for music instruction. Areas that cannot be covered because of lack of time or resources or student preparation should be considered for music software supplements. Students can learn, through individualized instruction, without additional teacher time or in-class involvement. The first software purchase a teacher should make is remedial or basic music software, which covers information in areas that they have little time to cover. Intermediate and advanced software titles can reinforce and expand the music curriculum even further.
Some software offers feedback to students, which is impossible to achieve without the software.
The pitch-analysis software published by ECS and Pyware is a great example of such feedback. Music teachers have great resources available to expand effective teaching and learning through new instructional software as we approach year 2000.