Electronic dictation assignments are best adapted for use as supplementary material, rather than required work. Obviously, if the electronic files are available to students online, they can play them as many times as they wish, and the teacher has no control over when students compare their work to the completed exercise. The sound produced by most PCs is not particularly attractive, but many students will be able to hook up their computers to external speakers, either in their own rooms or in a computer lab. 3.3 Error Detection Another type of dictation exercise that can be facilitated using Finale is error detection. This is not actually a different type of dictation, but rather an alternative method for accomplishing standard types of dictation, such as melodic and harmonic.
Students can complete the exercise in a variety of ways.
The error detection method can be applied to other types of dictation as well. Creating a melody using the mass mover tool. Keyboard Skills Finale can be used for keyboard drills as well. Keyboard assignments can be placed in shared folders, from which students can copy the assignments, practice, and perform them. My freshman music theory class meets in the keyboard laboratory one day each week.