E004

E004 is software to be used with the Interactive Music Technology Curriculum Project or IMTCP. It is a modified version of the EAMIR Smart IWB software created for use on a large interactive white board such as a Smart Board®. This software shows suggestions for composing chord progressions based on the ways that chords tend to resolve in western music. If a user clicks on the fifth chord, they will hear the fifth chord played back in either a sustained mode or in one of the playback styles as seen in other IMTCP software. However, the sixth chord and the first chord will begin blinking showing the user that these chords commonly follow the one they just played. Of course, the user is not forced to play one of these chords, but the suggestions are still there when the user triggers diatonic chords or any of the secondary dominant or leading-tone chords, augmented sixth chords, or other tonicizing chords available in the other rows of the program or through the pull down menu. The blinking chord suggestions are stored in a simple text document, and, thus, can be modified to allow instructors to create customized chord suggestions for a given chord.