Grammar of Music

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What to study before Extending note values

The four ways to make a value longer: the dot, the double dot, the tie and the fermata. Below, the concepts that come before, in the order in which one explains the next. Signed in, you see the same path minus what you already hold: your path.

  1. Properties of sound

    The four properties every musical sound has at once: duration, intensity, pitch and timbre.

    Level 0

  2. Note

    The seven pitch names, and the sign that puts one of them on the page.

    Level 1

  3. Note values and rests

    The figures that say how long a sound lasts, and the rests that say the same about silence.

    Level 1has practicelesson Counting time (First steps in theory)

  4. Extending note values

    The four ways to make a value longer: the dot, the double dot, the tie and the fermata.

    Level 1lesson What the series of note values does not write (Reading music)