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Techno for a 3D brick breaker. Lessons that take you from your first scale to the blues, bossa and gospel on fourteen instruments. More art on the way.

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Music The Nineties Game 6 tracks · techno · 2026 Lessons MusicTrainerPro curriculum 14 instruments · 30+ courses Art In the studio Coming soon

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The Nineties Game

Six techno tracks written for 3D Crackanoid Ultra 2, the 1999 brick breaker rebuilt in real 3D. 112 to 138 BPM, every one rooted in A — drive, strings, choir and brass over a four-on-the-floor kick. Each track belongs to a world in the game and loops seamlessly while you play.

The title menu of 3D Crackanoid Ultra 2 over a 3D table of pumpkin bricks; the last menu item reads MARTY IVY - THE NINETIES GAME.
The title menu — its last item picks the soundtrack.
Crackanoid Ultra marty ivy · The Nineties Game
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3D Crackanoid Ultra 2: the logo over a field of glossy 3D bricks, a red monster and a chrome ball.

Hear it in the game

3D Crackanoid Ultra 2 rebuilds the 1999 arcade brick breaker in real 3D: live reflections, HDR lighting, motion blur and bricks that shatter. Forty levels, monsters and bosses, and a Halloween pack. Each kind of world plays its own track; the Halloween levels play Halloween Night.

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  • Level 3: red, blue and green bricks over a pit of glossy beads, a skull and a snake among them.
    Level 3
  • Level 13: a wall of coloured bricks over a lit grid funnel, shards flying.
    Level 13
  • Halloween level 4: a skull of bricks bursting, pumpkins and gravestones on the table.
    Halloween 4 — Halloween Night

Lessons · MusicTrainerPro

From the first scale to the groove

marty ivy writes the curriculum in MusicTrainerPro: scales, chords, arpeggios and styles, each exercise with its own sheet music — and tablature for the fretted instruments. Every course is shaped for its instrument, in its range, in its home key.

MusicTrainerPro lesson: Piano — Chord Inversions & Voice Leading — Triad Inversions, a list of six exercises. MusicTrainerPro: a score open for practice.

Fourteen instruments — and any treble one

  • Piano
  • Guitar
  • Bass (4 & 5 string)
  • Ukulele
  • Mandolin
  • Banjo
  • Violin
  • Viola
  • Cello
  • Flute
  • Irish whistle
  • Voice
  • Drum kit
  • Shamisen (3 tunings)
  • Any treble instrument

Styles, the way they're played

  • Blues the form, the feel and the licks
  • Jazz ii–V–I, turnarounds and swing
  • Funk & Soul the one, the pocket, the changes
  • Gospel the amen, the walk-up and the 12/8
  • Latin bossa, montuno, the Spanish cadence
  • Reggae & Ska the skank, the drop, the bass
  • Rock & Pop loops, riffs and the build
  • Metal power chords, gallops, dark modes
  • Folk & Country three chords and the tune
  • Classical cadences, figures, sequences

And the ears behind them

Ear training and inner hearing — hear the tonic, major vs minor, intervals, I–IV–V, syncopation, song form — plus reading in standard notation and tablature.

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