Practice
Try an exercise, build fluency, or check your understanding.
Find your chapter, then choose a drill, quiz or activity.
Built one week at a time. This practice section grows alongside the book. Each week a new chapter is released, and a new set of exercises for it is released here at the same time.
Chapter 1.2
Lines and Dots and Blobs
Reading notation
Chapter 1.3
It’s About Time
Rhythm, meter and the backbeat
Chapter 1.4
Scaling the Heights
Scales: major, minor, pentatonic and blues
Build a scaleChoose notes and accidentals, then hear and check the pattern.Drill
Change the scaleAlter minor forms, take out the devil, and add the blues note.Drill
Hear what changedCompare major and minor scales by ear, identify the changed degree, then reveal the notes.Listening
Check your understandingQuestions, feedback and links back to the lesson.Quiz
Chapter 1.5
At the Interval
Intervals: size, quality, consonance and inversion
Build the intervalStart from a given note, build the interval asked for, then check its sound and its spelling.DrillName the intervalRead twelve written pairs and identify their size and quality.DrillHear the intervalBegin with two choices, then work through four repeatable listening rounds.DrillCheck your understandingTen questions on spelling, inversion, compound intervals and musical tension.Quiz
Not tied to a chapter
Legacy quizzes
Quizzes made before the weekly build began, on topics from later in the book. Try any of them now.
Phrasing and cadence
Modes
Secondary dominants
Drills build fluency.Quizzes check understanding.Both give you a way to keep learning.
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