Waay: Learn music theory

Perfect for beginners

Published by: Ten Kettles
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Music theory can be empowering, exciting, and one of the biggest tools in your creative arsenal. Whether you already play an instrument or are just learning, Waay teaches you how to bring together notes into melodies, chords, progressions, and even songs. This is applied music theory—stuff you can take straight to your instrument and use.
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“Best music theory learning app out there. I just want to say this app is completely amazing and an incredible amount of work must have gone into this. I have been looking for an app just like this to complete my learning between music classes and this has everything I need and more. I highly recommend!” —BigMat74, Oct. 20, 2023
"Absolutely phenomenal. This is better than any YouTube video, podcast, or music theory book I have read. Within 48 hours using this app I have actually comprehended what is being taught far beyond any previous comprehension for past products. Honestly they could charge more than double the amount and it would be totally worth it." —Artice, May 3, 2022
"It's obvious a lot of time, love and energy has gone into this app. It's very well thought out, easy to follow and keeps you coming back for more. The developer is super friendly and answers any questions you have. It's clear he has a real passion for what he does and genuinely wants to help out. Awesome work all round" —thatboyswiss, Jan. 8, 2019
"I have probably spent thousands of dollars perfecting tone on pedals, instruments, amps and apps, posters, printed media, online courses. The BEST PURCHASE has been your Waay app." —A.P., Apr. 1, 2020
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You're writing a song, but keep getting stuck. What chords sound good together? What melody fits those chords? Waay helps you master these skills with its interactive exercises, bite-sized video lessons, musical examples, and progress-tracking tools. The Practice Space recommends a great time to practice each of your new skills too. Plus there's no Internet connection required! Perfect for your subway commutes and plane adventures.
Here’s what you’ll learn in each course:
Course 1: Melodies
• 8 video lessons, 11 interactive exercises
• The 12 notes in music and how we talk about them
• Intervals: Steps, half-steps, and moving between notes
• Keys: Learn what notes sound good together and hear audio examples
• Scale building: Build major and minor scales from scratch
• Songwriting: How do we apply theory to write music?
• Circle of fifths: The super-fast way to build scales… and more
Course 2: Chords
• 8 video lessons, 12 interactive exercises
• Thirds and fifths: The building blocks of chords
• Build major, minor, and diminished chords
• Songwriting: We write a song melody-first and then add just the right chords
• Magic formula: Which chords actually sound good together?
Also included:
• Relative majors & Fast minor scales
Courses 3 & 4: Progressions
• 10 video lessons, 30 interactive exercises
• The fundamental relationship between keys and chords
• Identify the key of a chord progression with six speedy tricks
• Shortlisting: Find chords to fit your chord progressions
• Musical judgement: Decide which chords *you* like best in your progressions
• ii V: Why is the ii V progression so important anyways?
• Choosing accidentals: Is it a sharp or flat? Learn that here
Courses 5 & 6: Intervals
• 10 video lessons, 20 interactive exercises
• Learn the complete set of intervals, from unison to 14th
• Inversions: How to flip intervals upside-down—and why you'd want to
• Enharmonics: Different names for the same note
• Compound intervals: Intervals bigger than an octave!
• Transposition: How to move songs to different keys
• Augmented chords and intervals
The Practice Space, first seven videos/exercises, and device syncing all come free. Access all content through a one-time purchase or subscription. Get in touch at tenkettles.com/contact if you have any questions—happy to help! -Alex
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4.71 out of 5

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Fun, simple and easy to follow

Joey Mojuice on

Switzerland

Great and fun way for beginners to learn music theory. Simple and easy to follow. Can be used by experienced musicians as well to brush up music theory. Would purchase further coursers of this app! ***SUGGESTION*** It would nice to have a progress bar showing your high score on each exercise and how many points you need to reach 3 stars. ***UPDATE*** Progression I + II have been added. Can‘t wait for more content.

Beware

anananjos on

Switzerland

Great until the 2nd course, even after buying the app for 5$, in order to unlock the 2nd part of the app you need to buy it for another 5$... what a scam

Great!

Likerman on

Switzerland

I learn the piano and the keyboard since many years. I can play it well now, but only know the basics from music theory. This app is very cool because I can easily improve my skills and use it while playong! Thank you!

Cool

reiseweise on

Switzerland

Realy cool and helpfull app, I just started but its looks quite good to me

Incredible app, better than conservatory

Jon22225151515 on

United States

I am a former music student that studied piano at conservatory, but my theory had grown weak in the years since I graduated. I was looking for an app to brush up on it and I was blown away by Waay. I hated theory in college - it intimidated me and I was bad at it since my high school teachers never focused on it. This app has me actually looking forward to practicing it and doing the exercises, which is something I never thought I would say. The content is top notch, but the actual app design is beautiful as well. I barely ever leave reviews but this app is just wonderful in every way. Thank you to the developer; you’ve made my life a little bit better because of your work.

Absolutely recommend (Updated)

Bricer898 on

United States

I’ve been diving into the world of music theory and have really struggled with finding something that works with my brain. I decided to give this app a try after coming across it on Reddit and the trial lessons have given me some breakthroughs on solidifying some of the basic concepts I’ve struggled with retaining. The trial period consists of the basics of intervals and how to build major scales (it also gives you the pattern for minor scales but the practices are paywalled). I usually can’t do in-app purchases (I have a very limited budget) but I’m genuinely going to try working this into my expenses because it seems like this might be an extremely helpful app. Going to purchase a month soon and hopefully the rest of the courses are as helpful as the beginning ones. I will update once I’ve gotten further into the app but it’s promising so far! June 10- Purchased a month to try the app further and it’s absolutely worth the money if you’re looking to really dive into music theory from a beginner standpoint. I’ve watched YouTube videos and searched websites and none have been so comprehensive, straight forward and helpful as this app is. The lessons are very well explained and have made things “click” for me in ways nothing else has. The practice tools are extremely useful and honestly fun to use. Have been going back pretty much daily to review things I need more time with and it’s made progressing through the lessons easier than I expected. I am terrible with memorization but I’ve already got things memorized that I was afraid I’d have to keep a reference tool with me for life. If you have the money, get this app. I plan on using it for quite a while.

Confused.

ArchaicSoul on

United States

I thought this app was absolutely brilliant till lesson 5 where the presenter states “we’re going to use the f# instead of the G flat. We’ll explain that in a later lesson.” But before they explain it, they literally quiz you on it so you have no way to figure out why your getting every scale wrong except out of luck. Not even a hint of logic to work with. Whose self sabotaging idea was that?

A music producer who avoided learning music theory

triumph3k on

United States

This is the best method I’ve ever applied to learn music theory. I have deejayed, made beats, engineered for 10+ years now. Finally I’m committed to learning music theory for songwriting and this app is giving me a newfound confidence. I believe it will take me to the next level is my musical pursuits. The app doesn’t give you cheap ways to cheat and actually forces you to study. Thank you for this!!!

DuoLingo for music theory

Dr6pn8 on

United States

Great way to practice scales, intervals, etc. love having it in an app. I went with monthly since I may get through it fast. Good stuff.

This is the waay!

Stefan G. Bucher on

United States

This app succeeded where years of music teachers failed. The content is clear, beautifully structured, and unfussy. The training modules are exactly the gamefied shame-free repetition that I needed! I keep telling people about this app!

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