Grammar of Music

Path

What to study before Ties and rests

How to hold a note beyond what one note value allows, and how to write silence. 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. Rhythm and meter

    Note values, augmentation dots, tuplets, and the division of time into simple and compound meters.

    Level 0has practicelesson Counting time (First steps in theory)

  2. Ties and rests

    How to hold a note beyond what one note value allows, and how to write silence.

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