Compass

For each lesson, students study relevant interactive topics, test themselves with the built-in quiz, and try out what they've learned in the Tracker. Topics include melody, harmony, scales, rhythm, dynamics, transformations, timbre, texture, and form.

Tracker

Compass's Tracker is a unique educational sequencer which helps students record and develop musical ideas. It includes 1200 motives (e.g. chord sequences, rhythms, scales) to use – plus tools to create canons, inversions, ostinati etc., and combine material in new ways.

Structured projects

The lessons lead on to composition projects such as theme and variations, songwriting and blues. Students develop music in the Tracker, and can also transfer it to Sibelius 4 or any sequencer.

Compass Teaching Materials

Click on the links below to download example PDFs from the Sibelius Compass Teaching materials for one of the eight learning pathways. Students follow a learning pathway, chosen by the teacher, which involves reading selected topics in Compass, completing quizzes and carrying out related activities in the Tracker. Students then choose a more substantial composition project and finish by completing a record sheet.

Teacher Guide D: Blues and Jazz

Student Learning Pathway D: Blues and Jazz

Student Composing Project D1: Blues

Educational levels

Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT4 or later
Pentium II or faster  
64Mb+ RAM
300Mb free hard disk space

Mac OS 8.6 or later (including OS X)
iMac/G3/G4/G5
64Mb RAM
(128Mb for OS X)
300Mb free hard disk space