Every great composer had a teacher who pushed them.
Yours is here.

Beethoven had Haydn and Albrechtsberger. Ravel had Fauré. Britten had Frank Bridge. The pattern is consistent across three centuries of composition history: the composers who developed fastest had someone watching their work, asking hard questions, and refusing to let them settle for competent. Maestro is that teacher — available on every page, at any hour, with full context of exactly where you are in the curriculum.

Ask Maestro why a parallel fifth matters and you get more than a rule — you get Fux’s reasoning, a demonstration in the voice leading you just wrote, and a question that makes you prove you understood it. Maestro knows your progress, your gaps, your completed challenges. When you ask “what should I work on today?” the answer is specific and calibrated to you, not a generic syllabus page.

The hardest part of self-directed study isn’t motivation. It’s the absence of someone to tell you when you’re wrong. Maestro does exactly that — pointing to the specific measure, naming the specific error, asking you to fix it and explain why. It also quizzes you, challenges you to teach the concept back, and tells you when your voice leading has no errors. That last one matters too.