Course Highlights
  • Pass the ABRSM Grade 5 Music Theory Exam
  • Understand music notation in four clefs (treble, bass, alto and tenor)
  • Know the major and minor scales in 26 keys
  • Be able to work out intervals and transpose into a different key
  • Understand chords, inversions and basic harmony
  • Gain a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of music theory
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

2 Topics
Introduction
Download Your Practice Materials Here!

4 Topics
Notation Basics
Duration
Pitch
Ornaments

11 Topics
Time Signature Secrets
Simple Quadruple Time: 4/4 4/8 and 4/2
Simple Duple Time: 2/4 and 2/2
3/4 and 6/8
3/8 9/8 9/4 and 12/4
3/2 6/4 and 12/8 - Easily Confused Time Signatures
Triplets and Duplets
Regular and Irregular Time
Adding Time Signatures and Rests
Adding Bar Lines
Changing Simple to Compound Time

3 Topics
Key Signatures and the Circle of 5ths
Relative Major and Minor Keys
Key Signature Patterns

8 Topics
Introduction to Scales
Major Scales
Minor Harmonic Scales
Minor Melodic Scales
Scale Degrees and Technical Names
Minor Scales with Key Signatures
Chromatic Scales
Scales in All Four Clefs

13 Topics
What are Intervals?
Naming Intervals - Number
Perfect Intervals
Major Intervals
Minor Intervals
Augmented Intervals
Diminished Intervals
Compound Intervals
Writing Harmonic Unisons
Working Out Intervals
Working Out Tricky Intervals
Intervals in a Musical Score
Don't Make These Five Mistakes!

4 Topics
Transposition and Intervals
The Transposing Instruments
Transposing with a Key Signature
Transposing without a Key Signature

2 Topics
Clefs
Transposing Between Clefs

2 Topics
Chords and Triads
Chord Inversions

3 Topics
What are Cadences?
Cadences and Melody
Cadence Exam Questions

1 Topic
Key and Key Changes

2 Topics
Instrument Families
Instruments Pitch

2 Topics
Free Mock Test
BONUS Section!!!

19 Topics
About this Section
What is SATB?
SATB Traps
The Marking Criteria
Planning - Six Steps to Success
Step 1: What Key is it In?
Step 2: Cadences
Step 3: Rhythm
Step 4: Melody
Step 5: Performance Directions
Step 6: :Checking
Students Composition Example
More Students' Compositions
Introduction to the Voice Composition Question
Verbal Accentuation
Time and Rhythm
Key and Harmonic Foundation
Melody and Wordpainting
Finishing Touches

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Music Theory ABRSM Grade 5

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