Introducing the Musical Alphabet The musical alphabet has seven letters. A, B, C, D, E, F and G. It goes around in a circle,...
Solfa – Do Re Mi Solfa (also called “Solfége”) boils down to a nice accessible way of learning to sing and recognise musical patterns. There’s...
D major scale In the beginning, we will be working in the key of D Major (violins and violas!). This is because violins...
A major scale This key has three sharps – C#, F# and G#. We will sing and say those as “Cis, “Fis” and...
Intro to Musical Notation We’ve done most of our work by ear so far, and most of the music we look at has finger...
Rhythm Notation The way each note is drawn on the staff will tell you two things – its pitch (what it sounds...
Note Reading 101 So… what do all the lines and spaces actually mean? A musical staff is made up of five lines. Notes...