If you study the worksheet you will see that students are required to identify the name of the note to be found under the white keys and to supply the two possible letter names (with appropriate sharps and flats) for the notes located under the black keys. The explainer below sets out to make sense of the situation in which some notes on the keyboard (the white ones) can have only one name while others (the notes found under the black keys) can be assigned one of two namesĪbove you can see the Music Theory 'Explainer' and below two of the five note naming worksheets in the download.

The Principles of Note Naming explained clearly and simply If our students cannot confidently supply the correct name for a note or the correct choice of names that are assigned to accidentals then they will struggle with every other aspect of music theory Music Theory: Getting 'The Basics' Right and teaching topics in the correct sequence They can all be used (and are very useful) as a 'stand alone' music theory resource but are much more effective when used in the correct sequence as set out in out lesson plans (which you can download from further down this page) The handouts and worksheets below are drawn from various stages of the programme. This site is designed to help teachers to get ALL of their music students to develop a 'joined up' working knowledge of music theory.

When students are able to construct three note Major and minor triads they are ready to look at how they can be combined within keys The free to download (from this page) 'explainer' above deals with constructing chords from scales while the worksheets and answer sheets support class work (or distance learning materials) using the principles under study 5: Keys The Major Scale 'Explainer' in the illustration can be downloaded free from this page

When students are secure in their knowledge of how to name notes and are familiar with whole and half-step intervals they are ready to use the capabilities developed to this point to construct, first the C Major Scale and from there (using the same sequence of intervals) all other Major Scales Our 'one click download' now features answer papers for the portion of our resources dealing with the five 'basics' of music theory featured in this section The 'explainer' can be downloaded free from this page. You can download the free music theory note naming 'explainer' and worksheet shown above from this pageĪbove you can see some of our resources themed around developing an understanding of whole-step and half-step intervals. The most important factor in teaching music theory properly is to teach things thoroughly and in the right sequence

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