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In music, when describing how fast a piece of music should be played at we use a series of different

An orchestra in classical music is a large group of musicians all playing together. It’s made up of dozens of

So you’re on your journey of learning about music theory and you want to know what the best music theory

If you’re learning music theory then you understand how many different topics and questions there are to cover. Learning on

In this guide to music intervals, we’re going to cover what intervals are in music. We’ll look at all the

Dynamics are one of the most important parts of music. You can express so much emotion with them. In this

Describing the tempo of a piece of music is a little harder than using the words “fast or slow”. Tempo

In this post, we’re going to cover everything about music ornaments, what they are, how they’re used and how to

In this post, we’re going to be looking at a type of tuplet called a triplet. What is a triplet?

If you’re looking to learn music theory online then there are a lot of fantastic options. There are tonnes of

As we covered in this in our beginner’s guide to musical scales, a scale is a group of notes arranged

The first scale that most people learn about is a major scale but they are just one type of scale.

On this page, I’ve put together some time signatures charts of different simple and compound time signatures and how we

In this guide we’re going to cover everything you need to know about Keys in Music What is a key?

A huge and very important part of learning about music theory is musical scales. In this post, we’re going to

In this post about musical clefs, we learnt about the letter names of all the white notes on the piano

In music, we often will have moments of silence where we want to tell a musician not to play.  For

In this post, we’re going to cover all the grade 5 performance directions you need to know for the ABRSM

Studying for your grade 4 music theory exam?  Then there are some performance directions you’re going to need to learn.

For the ABRSM grade 3 music theory exam you’re going to need to know some Italian words and symbols and

For the ABRSM grade 2 music theory exam you’re going to need to know some Italian words and symbols and

Clefs are a type of musical symbol we use at the beginning of a stave to indicate to musicians what

In western music, we name the different pitches of notes by the first seven letters of the alphabet: A, B,

In this guide, which is one of our free music theory lessons, we’re going to look at how to notate

Time signatures are a very important part of reading and writing music. They tell us everything we need to know

In this lesson, we’re going to take a look at some of the basic types of musical notes. We’ll be