A Complete Guide To Grades 1-5 Music Theory
A 5 Book Series Of PDF Study Guides to Teach You Everything You Need to Know To Pass The ABRSM Grades 1 - 5 Theory Exams
Do you want to not only pass the exam but get a distinction?
Whether you’re a budding musician or a supportive parent, the key to success in the exam is mastering the fundamentals of music theory.
We understand the challenges of learning music theory.
There are so many new topics to learn.
Pitch, time signature, clefs, keys, chords, dynamics, articulation. The list is long, and it can be confusing to know where to start.
That’s why we’ve written a series of five comprehensive PDF guides designed to simplify your learning process.
Our mission? To make learning music theory easier and more enjoyable for everyone!
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A Complete Guide To Grade 1 Music Theory
Book 1 starts off with the fundamentals, giving you a solid foundation in the language of music theory.
From understanding basic building blocks of music like notes, their time values, and how they’re represented on the staff to the complexities of time signatures and keys.
Then, we move on to tied and dotted notes, rests, accidentals, scales, chords, intervals, and tips for clear musical notation.
This book will equip you with everything you need to build a strong foundation of music theory knowledge.
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A Complete Guide To Grade 2 Music Theory
Our second book builds on the foundations from Grade 1 and introduces some new topics.
Here, you’ll learn about some new time signatures, explore the nuances of triplets, and discover the minor scale as well as major keys with up to three sharps or flats.
We also introduce melodic and harmonic intervals, such as relative keys, and some new performance directions.
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A Complete Guide To Grade 3 Music Theory
On to Grade 3 where we’ll learn about some more advanced concepts like simple and compound meter time signatures, converting between them, and thirty-second notes or demisemiquavers as they’re also known.
Then, we’ll continue to expand your repertoire of scales, introducing major and minor scales with up to four sharps or flats and the melodic minor scale.
You’ll also learn about interval qualities, transposing up and down an octave, and musical phrases.
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A Complete Guide To Grade 4 Music Theory
The penultimate book in our series, Grade 4, deepens your understanding of music theory with some more complex musical elements.
You’ll learn about double whole notes, duplets, the alto clef, and double accidentals. We’ll also cover major and minor scales with up to five sharps or flats, augmented and diminished intervals, the technical names of scale degrees, and primary triad chords.
And to finish, you’ll learn about ornaments, standard orchestral instruments, and some new performance directions.
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A Complete Guide To Grade 5 Music Theory
Finally, we’re on to Grade 5, the last book in our series. Here, we’ll put everything together and learn some more advanced music theory.
In this book, you’ll learn about irregular time signatures like 5/8 and 7/4, irregular time divisions such as quintuplets and nonuplets, and keys with up to six sharps or flats.
The book also introduces the tenor clef and cadences, dives deeper into transposition, and expands your knowledge of intervals by introducing compound intervals up to 15ths.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dan Farrant
Dan Farrant, the founder of Hello Music Theory, has a degree from the Royal Academy of Music and has been teaching music theory for over 15 years.
During that time, he has helped hundreds of thousands of students to learn music theory.
From teaching so many students, he noticed that they often face the same challenges when it comes to music theory.
So, he put together this guide to address those challenges, providing a comprehensive resource that guides students through the essential concepts and techniques necessary to succeed in the ABRSM theory exams.
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- What Music Theory Syllabus is This for?These books are specifically written with the ABRSM Music Theory syllabus in mind. But they are perfect for beginners and will give you a good fundamental knowledge of music theory whether you’re following their syllabus or not.
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