Music Theory

ABRSM Grade 1 · 8 topics available

Read the five-line stave, tell the treble and bass clefs apart, and name notes on lines, spaces and ledger lines.

Learn semibreve, minim, crotchet and quaver values, their rests, dotted notes and ties, and count beats in a bar.

Understand bar lines, the top and bottom numbers of a time signature, and 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 (common time).

Learn tones and semitones, and how sharps, flats and naturals raise, lower or cancel a note.

The major scale pattern (T T S T T T S) and the key signatures of C, G, D and F major.

Number the degrees of a scale, find the tonic, and build the tonic triad (degrees 1, 3, 5) in C, G, D and F.

Name intervals by number by counting letter names inclusively, from the unison up to the octave.

Common Grade 1 dynamics, tempo words and signs — from piano and forte to Allegro, staccato and slurs.

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