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Music theory, grade 5

Keys, intervals, chords, cadences and score reading as a grade 5 paper asks them. Placeholder content.

10 lessons · about 3.3 hours · Preparing for a grade 5 theory examination

The syllabus, mapped

  1. 01Keys and scales — The paper opens with them.
  2. 02Intervals — Examined directly and inside every chord question.
  3. 03Chords and cadences — The harmony section.
  4. 04Rhythm and metre — Short questions, easy marks.
  5. 05Reading a score — The last section and the least practised.

The 10 lessons

  1. 01Keys and scales: the ideas · free
  2. 02Keys and scales: exam problems
  3. 03Intervals: the ideas
  4. 04Intervals: exam problems
  5. 05Chords and cadences: the ideas
  6. 06Chords and cadences: exam problems
  7. 07Rhythm and metre: the ideas
  8. 08Rhythm and metre: exam problems
  9. 09Reading a score: the ideas
  10. 10Reading a score: exam problems

The first lesson is free. The other 9 (3.3 hours in all) cost $8.42 bought together.

Or $1.70 a lesson one at a time, or $20.00 a month for Minimal — cheaper once you take more than ~11 lessons a month.

Try a block from the first lesson: Keys and scales: the ideas
Music theory · harmonyC
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C→EM3E→Gm3

That is C. The name is not a fact about these keys: it is a description of the gaps, which is why moving the whole shape up a key renames it and changes nothing about how it sounds.

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