Teaching Sequences

Teaching Sequences · Scale Trail · Live

Scale Trail · Teaching Sequence · Live

Major Keys

Build the key. Learn the path — in the order your band hall actually runs. Steps 2–4 cover the Bronze scale-club keys (concert B♭, E♭, F — and mallets are concert pitch, so that's literal).

The eight steps

In order, ready to assign

How these are graded: every step is an assigned trail — same seed, same stages for every student. The report shows the conditions: support level, incorrect answers, reveals, and whether the student ran your trail or an easier one they configured. Completion under stated conditions, never a timer.

Stretch: the Enharmonic Pass — F♯ major and G♭ major, the same bars spelled two ways. The Scale Trail twin of Mallet Map's "One Bar, Two Names."

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Free, logged out, on any device

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