MajorMinor.The same notes can say different things.This is what TheM stands on: what we make, where it comes from, what the name means and who builds it. MajorMinor also names the two kinds of tools we build: major and minor.
What this isA music-technology studio.
We build major tools and minor tools for musicians, teachers and students. The major tools are our products, each built around one friction met in real practice. The minor tools are free utilities for the small jobs that come up in every session.
Where it comes fromTheM grew out of a working music practice.Years of writing, producing and teaching kept turning up the same frictions. Each major tool answers one of them. The minor tools, free in your browser, answer the smaller ones.
The nameTheM is short forThe Major Minor.
C majorCC♯DE♭EFF♯GA♭AB♭B
C minorCC♯DE♭EFF♯GA♭AB♭B
Major and minor use the same twelve notes. Only the arrangement changes, and the arrangement changes what the music says. The studio is named for that idea.
The method
01Start with the smallest unit. Build outward.A chord, a minute of practice, a single lesson. We get that right before anything is built on top of it.
02A product begins as one specific friction.Something real that got in the way of the work: a chord that would not come, practice that went unrecorded, a class buried in admin.
03Features are cut before they are added.What stays has earned its place. Fewer, sharper decisions make a tool that is quicker to learn and easier to trust.
Three expressions
Teach with Minerva.Practise with Metrie.Create with Madre and Memrie.None stand alone. What's taught gets practised, and what's practised gets created.
Founder
Founder & CEOMayank ChoudharyI'm Mayank Choudhary, also known as ZRYA, founder and CEO of TheM. I have worked as a composer and producer for more than ten years, on projects for Yash Raj Films, Disney+ Hotstar, TVF, MX Player and Vir Das. I am a Berklee College of Music alumnus, I hold a BA (Hons) in Psychology, and I teach music theory and production.Psychology taught me to start from how people listen, learn and practise. That is where every TheM product begins: with the musician using it, and the moment they need it. TheM builds the tools that work kept asking for.
This is not the beginning of the story.
It's what everything else stands on.