The NoteCard Help Explorer

NoteCard comes with a detailed help file that covers all features and aspects of the product. For your convenience, the same information is available right here on our web-site. The green links below will connect you to some topics in the web version of the help file that we think you will find helpful if you are in the process of learning about NoteCard. You can also navigate within the help by selecting topic titles from a hierarchical list on the left side of the screen, just as in the help file itself.

Quizzes

Much of your time in NoteCard will be devoted to randomized quizzes in which you have to use your on-screen instrument to identify each in a series of ten notes. You can start a quiz whenever you feel like by pressing the Start Quiz button. Speed as well as accuracy count in these quizzes, just as they do when you are reading actual music.

Quiz setup tips: If you happen to be a piano student, NoteCard’s default quiz settings will probably suit you. Under those settings, you use a 4-octave piano keyboard as your on-screen ‘input instrument’, a full ‘piano staff’ with both treble and bass clefs. Other musicians will have their own preferences for these settings, and this topic walks you through the simple choices.

Quiz mode: After you set up your quiz options, you will probably next spend some time in Study Mode. The notes you will learn are introduced a few at a time in a series of Quiz levels where you can memorize and review the current set of notes. but then it will be time to test.

Study

Study mode: After you set up your quiz options, you will probably next spend some time in Study Mode. The notes you will learn are introduced a few at a time in a series of Quiz levels where you can memorize and review the current set of notes. but then it will be time to test.