What is a JIXIS Graphical Music System?
A JIXIS Graphical Music System is an amazingly simple and totally free way to quickly learn how to play a piano-type keyboard. And it's an unbelievably easy way to learn how to read ordinary black and white music. JIXIS will have you reading and playing music for any piano-type keyboard almost immediately!
On this site you will be able to download a free Pdf copy of the JIXIS Instruction Manual that will teach you how to use the JIXIS method to your best advantage as you learn to play your keyboard and learn about the basics of music.
How does a JIXIS Graphical Music System operate?
The white keys of a musical instrument keyboard are ordered from left to right in a fixed horizontal format that directly corresponds to the vertical format of the lines and spaces of written music. Said another way, the lines and spaces of written music are vertically ordered from bottom to top so that they directly correspond to the left to right ordering of the white keys in the keyboard. Every other white key in the keyboard corresponds to a line position in the written music, and every white key between the line positions corresponds to a space position in the written music.
Although this fact is hidden from your normal view, with your free JIXIS Graphical Music System, you will be able to actually see the graphical format of the written music imposed in the color-coding on your keyboard. Once you actually see the color-coded graphical sequence on your keyboard, it is a simple process to "mentally impose" the same color-code sequence onto your written music. And once you see how the keyboard lines and spaces are the same as the written music lines and spaces, you will easily understand how the written notes on the music are exactly the same as the required fingering positions on the keyboard keys!
In order to produce this highly visible color-coded graph on your keyboard, the JIXIS method uses small (usually half-inch), color-coded, stick-on labels on the unused rearmost portion of every other white key on the keyboard. Each color-coded label directly corresponds to a specific line position in the music. Each non-labeled key directly corresponds to a specific space position between the lines of the music.
Once you have applied the color-coded labels to your keyboard you will quickly understand how to make the mental transition between the horizontal line and space format and the vertical line and space format, so that you can place your fingertips into the horizontal graph format wherever you see a musical note written into the vertical format of the music.
Will JIXIS replace conventional music training?
No, JIXIS is not intended to replace formal keyboard training, but rather to enhance it. Once you learn how to play your keyboard using the JIXIS method, you will be ready and able to learn more about music on your own or from a professional teacher—but by then you will already know how to read music and where each key is located on the keyboard!
The JIXIS Graphical Music System is so simple a child can learn to play written notes within a few minutes after the keying labels are in place! Once you become familiar with the idea of playing by using the graphical correspondence between the written notes and fingering positions on the keyboard, it becomes an easy process to learn the names of the various playing positions and the musical note positions! Then you can begin to gradually “overlook” the keying labels and just play the keyboard in terms of the written music! Remember that you will almost immediately be experimenting with the playing of virtually any piece of music written for the tonal range of your instrument, and not just “easy play” colored or numbered music. And you will be learning as you play!
The more you play, the more you will learn about what it means to play without using the JIXIS System—because your entire effort will be toward attempting to "override" the System and using your playing experience to guide you!
What information does the free Instructional Manual contain?
The free Instruction Manual will explain to you how to either obtain useable color labels from an office supply store, or how to make your own from the Label Sheet included with the Instruction Manual. The Instruction Manual will show you how basic music concepts are easily interpreted in a graphical manner, and how the color-coding system is used to remember the line and space order of ordinary black and white music.
Once you understand what it feels like to actually play out written music by graphical association methods, and have begun to learn the note names and playing position names, you will find that more advanced musical theory and practical playing advice will be much easier to interpret and utilize.
What does the word JIXIS actually mean?
The seemingly nonsense-word JIXIS is actually just the sound you might hear if you tried to say the acronym “GGCCKCS.” GGCCKCS stands for the phrase “Graphically Gauged and Color-Coded Keying Control System.”
It is our sincere hope that you are able to use the JIXIS Graphical Music System as a starting point for a lifetime of musical enjoyment. There are few things in life more satisfying than to be able to play a musical instrument. And there really is no simpler method to begin to learn the basics of playing than by beginning with the graphical association method you are about to learn—
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