NOTE IDENTIFICATION AND OTHER GAMES

https://www.musictheory.net/exercises

FREE MUSIC THEORY BOOK

Click on the following link to download the book:

MUSIC THEORY FUNDAMENTALS

MUSIC AND SCIENCE, Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of pentatonic scale

You may not know anything about music theory or music scales, but you can sing a pentatonic scale. Bobby McFerrin shows it to you:

World Science Festival - Notes and neurons

Learn the musical scale - Primary Education

There are many resources we can use to teach the musical scale:

C Major scale (Escala de Do Mayor)

A scale is a sequence of notes, ordered by pitch. A scale can be ascendig or descending.

The following activity comes from the webpage Bromera, which has a full range of digital activities in English.

About how to teach the name of the notes, you can teach them using the American notation (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) or in Spanish.

 

Using the wall glockenspiel our students can learn how to sing the different notes of the scale and they can play them on the smart board:

MUSICAL NOTES AND RESTS

TIME SIGNATURES

An interesting video about Time signatures:

Thanks to: Music Theory Guy Youtube channel

THE DIATONIC SCALE

• A scale is a set of notes ordered by pitch. It can be ascending or descending
• The diatonic scale is made of seven notes (high 'do' is repeated)

• It has five tones (or whole steps) and two semitones (or half steps)

• The semitones in the diatonic scale are between the notes mi-fa and si-do

• If you look at the keys of a piano you can see the distance of tone and semitone easily. There is no black key between the semitones.

INTERVALS

•  In music, an interval is the difference between two notes.

• An interval can be of: 

second (2nd), third (3rd), fourth (4th), fifth (5th), sixth (6th), seveth (7th), octave (8th) and so on.

• Intervals can be ASCENDING or DESCENDING:

•  An interval can also be HARMONIC or MELODIC.