MUSIC THEORY VIDEOS
Welcome to the Music Theory Videos page! This page contains links to all the videos I have created on different music theory components. Click on a link and it will take you to the video on my YouTube channel. Many of the videos link with topics in the ABRSM ‘Discovering Music Theory’ workbooks.
NOTES AND RHYTHM
- Little Bug Beats - Using words to correctly perform rhythms
- Clap it Back - Learning how to perform one beat rhythm groups
- Simple Rhythms (One Beat Groups) and how to play them
- 21 Light Up Rhythm Drills - Learn how to perform rhythms
- Basic Notes, Rests and Rhythms - A general guide to rhythm
- Basic Rhythms - Read in your own time
- Simple Notes and Rhythms - the very basics for beginners
- Understand Simple Rhythms - Create, Count, Group, Play
- The Correct Way to Write Rhythms (intermediate)
- Music Note Names
- Add a feature and halve the note duration - the easy way to tell how long a note lasts for
- Music Rests
- Tied notes and Dotted Notes - Read in your own time
- Triplets and Duplets - How Many Beats
- Triplets for Beginners
- QUIZ - Which rhythm is playing?
- Showing Music Note Durations as Fractions of Pies!
- The Sound of Duplets and Triplets
- Music Notes and How to Use Them
PITCH (STAFF NOTATION)
- Symmetrical Music Notes - An easy way to remember note positions
- Learn to read music in 2 minutes!
- The Magic Landmark note of C
- Symmetrical Spaces - An easy way to read music and sight read quickly
- Learn to Read Music - Read in your own time
- Top 10 Note Reading Tips
- Watch and Hear All the Notes you need to know for grade 1 theory
- Watch and Hear All the Notes you need to know for grade 2 theory
- Watch and Hear All the Notes you need to know for grades 3 - 5 theory
- Watch, Hear and See on the Piano all the notes you need to know for grades 3 - 5 theory
- Sharps, Flats and Naturals
- Ledger Lines in Motion - what ledger lines actually are!
- How to write the same note in a different clef (ledger lines)
- Stop Counting Ledger Lines!
- Learning to Read Music Through Reflections
- A Comparison of Notes in Treble, Bass, Alto and Tenor Clefs
QUIZZES ON LOTS OF MUSIC NOTE RECOGNITION!
- QUIZ - Treble Clef Notes - Middle C to High C - Perfect for beginners
- QUIZ - Bass Clef Notes - Low C to Middle C - Perfect for beginners
- QUIZ - Treble Clef Notes - The initial 12 treble clef notes
- QUIZ - Bass Clef Notes - The initial 12 bass clef notes
- QUIZ - Timed Treble Clef Notes Quiz
- QUIZ - Timed Bass Clef Notes Quiz
- QUIZ - Can you recognise all the music notes for grade 1?
- QUIZ - Can you recognise all the music notes for grade 2?
- QUIZ - Can you recognise all the music notes for grades 3 - 5??
- QUIZ - Draw the note which represents the piano key
TIME SIGNATURES
- Simple Time Rules
- Compound Time Rules
- 6/8 Time Signature
- Note and Rest Groupings in Simple and Compound Time
- Understanding Simple and Compound Time Through Conducting
- Simple, Compound and Irregular Time Signatures
- Time Signatures with Different Bottom Numbers
- Rewriting Rhythms in Different Time Signatures
- Grouping Notes for Beginners
KEYS, SCALES AND CHORDS
- The Circle of Fifths - Everything you need to know
- A Demonstration of the Circle of Fifths on the Piano
- Look What Happened when I Flattened the Circle of Fifths
- Pythagorean Tuning
- Why do Music Keys do this? (Move in Fifths)
- The Historical Reason why a scale contains certain notes
- How to Identify any major key signature
- How to identify any minor key signature
- How to identify any major or minor key signature
- The connection between major and minor scales and key signatures
- How do we know if a piece is in a major or minor key?
- The initial key signatures of G major, D major and F major
- Simple Scales
- All About Musical Modes
- Chords and Inversions
- Composing with chords and inversions
- How to Name or Form a Specific Chord
- Simple Tonic Triads
- Chord Progressions and Composition using the Circle of Fifths
INTERVALS
- How to work out intervals
- Five Minutes to Work out any interval
- Forming Intervals - The rules!
- Bored of Trying to Name an Interval? Just cheat!
- Can you name an interval by counting tones and semitones?
- Major and Perfect Intervals
- Minor Intervals
- Augmented Intervals
- Diminished Intervals
- Major, minor, perfect, augmented and diminished intervals
- Intervals - the big version!
- Major, minor and perfect intervals in 1 minute
- All intervals (including compound intervals)
- Compound Intervals (includes a quiz!)
- QUIZ - Name the interval (beginners)
- Practice Questions on Intervals: EASY
- Practice Questions on Intervals: MEDIUM/HARD