It was difficult for me. This course would be challenging for beginners.

I thought this course was great but a little hard to follow

Not for American musical terminology, pretty confusing.

I found this course not beginner friendly

YOU TURN ME ON

If one completed the course the person definitely has learnt a lot. But I haven't completed it. I was looking for a course that really only covers basic terminology and concepts, however, the course covers also intermediate and advanced topics, and the learning curve is steep. It's really challenging and requires at least a simple keyboard for practice and lots of time for self-study by using external materials and sources. This is definitely more effort than I planned to invest.

I managed to pass the first three weeks but really struggled with week 4 and onward. The presentation feels dull and the material taught in the videos and notes often does not cover the exam questions. Many, many details were missing. It would have been better if the pace was slower, the material more in-depth and spread out over time, and the syllabus should be reworked to be really closer to a "fundamentals" course.

Lectures barely cover the curriculum, which is reasonable in a free course. Of course students should be studying independently outside the lectures, but there are few to references given, just the odd link to external websites. There is no detailed written curriculum or reading list. Coming to the course without any prior knowledge, taking and failing the quizzes seems to be the only way to get guidance on what to study. This is discouraging, to say the least. At week 4, after the quiz covered concepts that weren't introduced until the week 5 lectures, I discontinued.

First, I did enjoy much of the course and learned a great deal. My intention was to complete the course. Overall, I found it disorganized and too dependant on the use of a keyboard (I am a beginning cello player). I found the final exam very unfair. There was the use of language and notation that was not discussed in the course which confused and unnecessarily complicated the question. I would recommend that you re-evaluate this course and the delivery model (one or two instructors).

The information in the videos was very interesting and well presented. I feel like I learned a lot. However, the quizzes and tests seemed to be of a very different level, and often covered material that was hardly discussed in the lectures. I understand that students are expected to do independent learning of material, but the gulf between lectures and test difficulty was extreme. If others were interested in learning about the basics of music theory, I would not recommend this course.

This course is really unbalanced in terms of difficulty. The first week is aimed at complete beginners, but by the fourth week or so things get much, much harder. I didn't feel like there was adequate explanation or materials for many of the questions on the quizzes at that point. I did manage to finish and pass the course, but the last couple of weeks were really frustrating. I think this material would be better spread out over a longer course, or multiple courses.

Incredibly rushed content with little time for clear explanation of basic concepts, I've played music for 28 years and thought I'd engage with this for a bit of brain stimulation outside of my career. Unfortunately, I found it very, very rushed, and from my personal perspective not very thoughtfully explained especially if you have no previous foundation of reading music or any previous familiarity with terminology or technical theory.

The lack of teacher or teaching assistant participation in the forum discussions is deafening. For an institution like the host institution, this is odd. I liked the course, but it was not very well organized. Seems like it was for experienced musicians, eve though the goals of the course hinted at it being for beginners as well. Good Course, badly organized.

Empecé con mucho animo, pero en el transcurso del curso vi que las notas, explicaciones y preguntas están en ingles, entiendo un poco ingles, pero esto hace que no pueda comprender las cosas como quisiera. Lo unico que está en español son los subtitulos de los videos, y eso... porque el de introduccíon está mal y a los 30 seg ya no hay más.

This course does not do a good job at teaching the material. The lecture videos gloss over the topics briefly, but do not give a thorough explanation of the core topics of the course. The quizzes will repeatedly test on terms not even remotely mentioned in any of the course materials.

Its great for those who had a music background to review about music theory , but its definitely not for absolute beginners. This lacks coherent guidance and could cause misunderstanding to those who didnt get a big picture of music theory in advance.

This was fun as a refresher course. If you're brand new to music theory, this course won't help much unless you spend a lot of extra time learning the concepts using secondary materials, google, youtube, and your own keyboard.

Very difficult to be a "fundamentals" course. You certainly will need to be acquainted with some of the concepts introduced even in week 1 and 2. Not recommended as a first course.

could offer and cover much more subjects.

spend too much time on basics, less on advanced.

could have chosen better music examples.

Fascinating at the beginning but by week 4 sooooo horribly lost. The quality just drops switching to Berklee's Music Courses

The description of the course does not portray the real contents. Not for beginners, specially from week 4.

The final exam is incredibly hard compared to the rest of the course. Please beware!

Badly structured course. Jumps around from too basic to too advanced. Not fun.

Starts really well, but then there is a huge leap in complexity and difficulty

Very confusing, goes too quick without actually explaining things

not a begginer course. specially week 3