DENVER - A local musician developed an iPad app which teaches children to read music. Christen Larsen taught himself how to write computer code for Ipads, then designed "Treble Clef Kids." The app has sold thousands in the first year of release.
It's a new method to learn the basics of music and who better to teach than his own daughter. Everleigh Larsen learned how to read music when she was just two-years-old.
"There are three levels to the app. There's the first and the easiest level which where it shows you the staff and then the letter of the note playing and then there are actually letters on the notes themselves. As the levels progress, it takes away the letters on the key... And makes it progressively more difficult," creator and founder Christian Larsen said.
As a musician himself, Christian said he wanted to find a way to teach his daughter to follow in his footsteps.
"When I first got the iPad, I was looking for something specifically for the age of two. Every app out there was wither too childish or it was much more difficult and really at the adult level," Larsen said.
"She immediately took to it and liked it. It's the fun of the app, it can be really encouraging; the cheers and the quirky sounds. The kids become really engaged with it and can really have fun with it," Larsen.
Aside from the app being something fun for kids to do to pass the time, it can have some great real-life benefits. "the [piano] two-handed motions are a little more advanced but [Everleigh] can really play on a piano and find all the names of the notes... It's amazing," Larsen said.
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