Music Theory Resources
Music Theory Resources
In addition to our lessons and practice for music theory, rhythm, and ear training, uTheory is pleased to share these free resources for your students and classes.
Music Fundamentals
Handouts for note reading, keys, intervals, and other music fundamentals.
Printable lines and spaces pdf. Includes treble, bass, alto and tenor clefs.
Printable grand staff and piano keyboard pdf, with notes labeled from C2 - C6
Rules for identifying key signatures, and all key signatures in treble and bass clef.
Printable Circle of Fifths, with both Major and minor keys, the order of sharps and flats, and key signatures drawn on the grand staff.
The whole and half step pattern of the Major scale, with solfege, scale degrees, and staff and keyboard examples.
Natural, harmonic and melodic minor scales, with their whole steps, half steps, and alterations from Major labeled.
How to invert triads, with examples and explanations of the root vs. the bass of a chord.
The five seventh chord qualities, their chord symbols, and how to alter each one to build the next.
Rhythm
Handouts for teaching rhythm reading and counting.
The rhythm tree for notes in simple times, from whole to 32nd notes.
The 1-ti-te-ta (Eastman) counting system for simple and compound time.
The Gordon Rhythmic Solfege counting system for simple and compound time.
Counting quarters, halves, wholes and dotted halves in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time.
Counting eighth and dotted quarter notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time.
Counting rhythms with eighth note syncopation in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time.
Counting rhythms with basic sixteenth note patterns in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time.
The dotted quarter beat and its three-eighth-note subdivision, counted 1-la-li in 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 time.
Counting mixed quarter and eighth note patterns, including skipping and compound snap rhythms, in compound meters.
Counting eighth note, two eighth note, and quarter note pickups in 3/8, 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 time.
Staff Paper for Music Theory Note Taking
Designed for the music theory classroom, our printable manuscript/staff paper includes space to take notes and a piano keyboard. It's also great for use in private music lessons!
Staff paper with a piano on the top, and space to the right for note taking.
Staff paper with a piano on the bottom, and space to the right for note taking.
Staff paper with space for notes on top and a piano on the bottom.
Staff paper with a space for notes in the middle, and a piano on bottom.
Staff paper with a piano in the middle, and space for notes below.
Staff paper with eight large staves, good for young or beginner students.
Online Resources
Downloadable Kodaly/Curwen solfege hand sign font for creating your own materials.
Send a solfege meme to a friend, or use it to make creative assignments for students!
Practice exercises for clefs, scales, intervals, triads, roman numerals, rhythm, ear training, and more.
Experience chords in different temperaments with this just-intonation keyboard.
Play back the tune you hear in solfege. Each time you get it right, one more note is added!
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