It's good for the most part. However, I feel like some aspects are overlooked or rather expected to be known by the course learners. To give an example of this, one was not taught to distinguish harmonic from non-harmonic notes, an ability which is quite essential when analysing a music piece (as one is expected to do during the final exam part 2).

For me this was the first of many courses on Coursera where the quizzes and exam were way too difficult compared to the videos and reading materials. I had to find and use a Dutch Music Theory textbook to be able to understand the subject matter and to complete the quizzes and exam. My advice: more video instruction and reading material is required.

It would great if explanations could be given alongside incorrect answer choices. I'm auditing the course and got stuck on a few question during weekly tests, and I didn't know what I'd done wrong with them even once I'd passed the test. I'd love if there was a feature that explained why an answer choice is correct or incorrect.

Taught good stuff, but moves very quickly without much review. If you don't know much beforehand, this course is really confusing. It's very dense and doesn't repeat much stuff throughout the weeks, and then expects you to recall everything. Take your time on this course; you'll learn a lot better.

This course is very intersting at first but after the third week, it is getting harder and the videos and the reading texts could not provide enough information to take the tests. Anyway, I learned some useful things from first weeks as the basic knoeledge of music theory, Thank you very much<

Level of difficulty is inconsistent. There are better basic topics to cover (learning how different note lengths actually work, completing bars with notes, time signatures) rather than cadances, the extremely technical and impracticle explaination of note length values etc.

The last part of the recording or video was completely bad. you couldn't understand a word.

Some of the question in the tests were a bit out of the lecture spectrum or at lest they were not take deep enough in order to ask some of the in tests.

The classes have not passed the necessary details and necessary training vis a vis the level of the quizzes and of the final exam. In my opinion, this course should be divided in 4 courses with more basic training included in all sections.

The lectures were entertaining and the lecturers are qualified and competent. However, I feel that they left content out which was needed to pass the quizzes and tests. I spent significant time on the internet researching the topics.

Slightly complicated. I believe there is a simpler way to teach this. Especially when I go to music theory.net, they have much simple methodology. A lot of important concepts like 7th chord of dominant were just brushed through.

It's an upper intermediate course reviewing everything you must know already. I have basics of music theory and had to retry this course twice. I haven't finished yet. I will when I gather more knowledge elsewhere...

There is a lot of content, the course goes very quickly. It could have been structured in a better way to make it easier to approach. Some notions are discovered in the exercises, which is a bit surprising.

It was easy enough for an absolute beginner like me at first. But by week 4 the difficulty had gone up drastically. Challenges are good for learning but I feel it may be a bit too challenging at my level.

I enjoyed this course. However, some fundamentals could be tackled in greater detail namely chords of the the augmented sixth, these were lacking in explanation.

A little bit not well organized. If the music and the staff can be demonstrated at the the same time to show the progression of the triad would be better.

Hard to come in without a music background. I still had some trouble, even though I've been playing music since I was a child.

The assignment at the end was pretty tough to attempt with the content of the course

The first three weeks were great, but I found it advanced too quickly in weeks 4-6.

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

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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.