The ThumMusic System

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The ThumMusic System

• www.thummer.com

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ThumMusic Keyboard Simple
Up P8
Up Left P4
Up Right P5
Right M2
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ThumMusic Keyboard Simple
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ThumMusic Keyboard Simple
Easier to Learn
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A given Sequence of intervals has the Same
Shape on an ThumMusic keyboard.

• How about Combinations of intervals?

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ThumMusic KeyboardMajor Triad
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ThumMusic KeyboardMajor Triad
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ThumMusic KeyboardDiatonic Triads
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ThumMusic KeyboardDiatonic Triads
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ThumMusic Keyboard shows Static relationships
well.

• How about
• Dynamic relationships?

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Chord Progressions
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F
A
Bb
D
B
Eb
G
Ab
C
E
F
A
Db
D
Bb
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F
A
Bb
D
B
Eb
G
Ab
C
E
F
A
Db
D
Bb
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F
A
ii
Bb
D
V
B
Eb
G
I
Ab
C
E
IV
F
A
Db
bvii
D
Bb
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F
D
Bb
C
B
Eb
G
F
A
Ab
C
E
Bb
D
F
A
G
D
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Engage More BrainTo Learn Less Stuff

• Patterns are visual
• Visual cortex
• Patterns are tactile
• Somatosensory cortex
• Patterns are logical
• Pre-frontal cortex
• Patterns are consistent
• A few simple rules, with no exceptions

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Engaging More BrainTo Learn Less Stuff

• Makes Music Simple!

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Is the ThumMusic Keyboard Really Simpler?

• Lets Ask the Experts!

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Expert OpinionDr. Bill Miles, Curriculum
Assessment, Australian (VIC) High Schools

• The potential impact of Thumtronics' innovations
  is hard to overstate.
• They allow music educators to present advanced
  concepts at a much earlier age, giving students
  a framework for deep understanding.
• At the university level, it could make the most
  advanced analyses easier to teach, learn, and
  apply.

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Expert OpinionDean Smith, President, Texas
Chapter, Technology Institute for Music Educators

• The ThumMusic keyboard is like a Periodic Table
  of the Intervals.
• It is a fantastic way to learn music.
• I am sure that my students will take to it
  immediately.

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Thats interesting.

• Can you reduce the stuff even more?

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Yes.
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By using tonic solfa (moveable Do).
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Pitch NamesC Major Scale
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Tonic SolfaMajor Scale in All Keys
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Pitch NamesDiatonic Triads In C Major
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Tonic SolfaDiatonic Triads In All Major Keys
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Using tonic solfaless stuff to
learnSimple
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Butwhat about staff notation?
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If we have a Do Re Mi keyboard

• We need a Do Re Mi staff, too.

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ThumLine Staff
Do
Ti
te
La
le
So
se
Fa
Mi
me
Re
ra
Do
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ThumLine StaffMajor Scale
Do
Ti
La
So
Fa
Mi
Re
Do

• Same in every key
• No key signatures, sharps, flats, or accidentals
• Same in every octave
• No treble clef, bass clef, C clef, etc.
• Simple

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ThumLine StaffChicken or Egg?

• No publisher will print music in a new notation
• Unless people can read it
• No one will learn to read a new notation
• Unless printed music is available in it
• We must make all the worlds music available in
  ThumLineinstantly.

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ThumLine Plug-inFor Music Notation Software

• Software distributed for free over the Internet
  (like Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Retroactively upgrades music notation software to
  read/write/edit ThumLine
• No deals with music publishers required!
• Makes all of the worlds music available in
  ThumLine instantly
• Nothing new to buy

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ThumLine is Not for EveryoneIts for Beginners

• If you can read traditional music notation
• Then stick with it! ?
• ThumLines purpose is to help
• Create musicians, not
• Convert them.
• Music notation for the rest of us

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Expert OpinionMarti DudgeonFormer
President,Austin District Music Teacher's
Association

• Thumtronics' new musical staff could be a great
  way to introduce beginning vocal students to
  music notation.
• Austin's music teachers can help develop this new
  approach to vocal music education and lead the
  world.

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Expert OpinionDr. Sam LeongFormer
Treasurer,International Society for Music
Education

• Throughout my work in music education for 30
  years teaching music teachers,
• I have not seen any innovation with as much
  potential to revolutionize music education.
• The ThumMusic System could transform the musical
  landscape in the 21st century.
• Why?

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More Brain

• Less Stuff
• Simple

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So, How Do I Get a ThumMusic Keyboard?

• You Already Own One

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Every Computer KeyboardIs a ThumMusic Keyboard
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Every Computer KeyboardIs a ThumMusic Keyboard
Two Octaves
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Every Computer KeyboardIs a ThumMusic Keyboard
Four Octaves more than most laptop piano
keyboard controllers
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Online Music LessonsUsing Computer Keyboard
ThumMusic

• Simple
• ThumMusic
• Animations
• Videos
• Cheap
• No instrument to buy
• Powerful
• Gain deep knowledge faster

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Whats Going On Here?
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Two Central Concepts

• Abstract the display of musical information to
  the same level as music theory (intervals)
• Anchor this abstraction to the geometry of the
  ThumMusic Keyboard
• Makes music theory concrete
• Because it can be seen and touched
• It is easier to visualize and grasp

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Benefits

• Engage more brain to learn less stuff
• Learn concepts faster
• Gain motor skills faster
• Faster progress, less boredom
• Lower drop-out rate
• Students can step up to the Thummer
• For details, see www.thummer.com

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Thank You!

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