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Torah Tutor: Lesson Tips

About the Windows on Your Monitor ScreenThis left window contains the tutorial text of the lesson, exercise instructions, and tips. The window on the right shows examples for the lesson and exercises, as well as, the controls for "What You See" and "What You Hear". We encourage you to click on these controls to explore how they can assist your learning. We will also go in depth on these controls in later lessons. Further, the “Whiteboard” and “Record” features can be used to your imaginations delight as both provide accessories useful to the tutor and student to utilize.While you are reading these lessons, be sure to use the scroll-bar to scroll down so that you read the entire lesson.Notice that each of the windows may have a scroll bar. If you see a scroll-bar on the right side of this window →Hearing the Melody of a Word, Phrase or VerseTo hear the melody of a word displayed in the window on the right, double click on the word.To play the entire phrase in the window on the right, press the ”Play” button in the ”Exercise Controls” box at the bottom of the window to the right. You can also press the Spacebar on your keyboard to start the chanting.To have TropeTrainer software stop chanting, press the ”Stop” button in the ”Exercise Controls” box. You can also press the Spacebar to stop the chanting.To start chanting from a particular word, click on that word so that it is highlighted by a gray box, then press the ”Play” button on the ”Exercise Controls” box.Some may choose to practice by recording their own voice chanting the trope word, phrase, or verse then playing it back to hear themselves and check pronunciation. To record your voice directly on the site, click on the “Record” feature located in the upper toolbar. Once in the “Record” tool, click “Start Recording” and then sing the word, phrase, or verse. When you have finished recording click “Stop Recording.” To play back your voice, click the black triangle (▶) button within the recording oval.Adjusting TropeTrainer Software to Your NeedsThe voice you hear from the TropeTrainer program is electronically generated. This lets you control the song style, accent, speed and voice of singing to best match how you sing and what you are comfortable with. You can control and customize the voicing in the SETTINGS feature accessible on the “Home” page.We believe there is a benefit to beginning your Trope training at a slow speed, and increasing the speed as you learn. We have also found that it is easier to learn and to practice when you are learning from someone that sounds like you do.

Note that the melodies are divided into two basic groups: Ashkenazic and Sephardic. Changes here affect the melody that TropeTrainer uses, but they do not affect the Accent -- Sephardic versus Ashkenazic -- this is set in the next control.

To set the pronunciation used by the TropeTrainer software. Options for TropeTrainer's ”Accent” are ”Sephardi”, ”Sephardi Traditional”, ”Ashkenazi Modern” and ”Ashkenazi Traditional” pronunciations.Sephardic Traditional pronounces the ayins, and chet and chaf are pronounced differently. Ashkenazic Traditional uses an ”OY” sound, where Ashkenazic Modern uses an ”OH” sound. The ”Voice” control lets you set the vocal range of TropeTrainer's chanting. Selections include (from lowest pitch voice type to highest): Bass, Baritone, Tenor, Alto, Soprano and Child.Select the pronunciation and voice type that is closest to your voice and way of speaking.To control the speed of singing from painfully slow to faster than many might be comfortable with. The volume control lets you adjust how loud TropeTrainer chants.Take a moment and experiment with these settings. All of the adjustments discussed above can be made while the TropeTrainer is chanting (although they will momentarily pause the singing). Adjust the Melody, Accent, Vocal range, Speed and Volume to match your needs.The Computer's ”Voice”Electronic technology has not yet allowed computers to produce a voice that sounds entirely as real and natural as your own. Sometimes, the voice will sound a little strange -- perhaps a bit choppy. This is normal for the type of artificial speech technology used in the TropeTrainer software.We at HazzanSolutions have found from experience that the benefits of TropeTrainer allowing you to start slow and increase speed as you learn, and finding a ”voice” and Trope melody that you are comfortable with greatly exceeds any problems produced by minor peculiarities of the electronic voice.Stacking Trope PhrasesStacking the Trope words by clauses or phrase groupings is a good way to see the trope phrase word groupings and differentiate them from each other. To stack the phrases, click on the “What You See” toggle in the upper tool bar in the window to the right. Once inside the popup click on the button to the left of the words “Stack Exercises.Move to the Next ExerciseThere are two buttons in the ”Lesson Controls” box at the bottom of this window. ”Next Lesson” moves you to the next lesson or exercise. ”Last Lesson” moves you back to the previous lesson or exercise.To directly open an exercise or lesson, click the “Tutor” button on the main toolbar and select the exercise or lesson you want.Note that the Open Tutorial function brings you to the beginning of a lesson.From the beginning of each lesson, you must use the ”Next Lesson” button in the ”Lesson Navigator” box to move to further parts of each lesson and to the lesson's exercises.The Main Point of These LessonsThe main point of the lessons on the following pages is to help you learn and memorize the Trope symbols and their musical motifs. The lessons and exercises are designed to teach you by example and repetition.We strongly suggest that you do these lessons three to six days a week. Just as in learning your favorite new songs and music, the more often you hear this, study this, and repeat this, the sooner and easier it will be to learn these Tropes!If you only do these lessons once a week, you will likely forget what you learned in the previous session, and you will have to work much harder to learn and retain this material.Press the ”Next Lesson” button in the ”Lesson Navigator” below to continue to the first lesson.

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