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What would you like to learn about music?

Start from zero and still understand it. Every lesson uses everyday examples, and the examples play on a real piano sound.

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Being written next: chords and harmony, reading sheet music, instruments, music history, composers and famous concert halls.

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I have never learned music

The seven note names, a steady beat, and finding the speed of a song.

  1. Step 1Note names: the seven letters of music
  2. Step 2How to use an online metronome: find a comfortable BPM
  3. Step 3Tap Tempo: find a song’s BPM without guessing
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I know a little

How far apart notes are, how scales are built, and how beats are divided.

  1. Step 1Intervals: how far apart two notes are
  2. Step 2Scales: a staircase of notes
  3. Step 3Time signatures and subdivisions: practise the notes between beats
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I can play some chords

Keys, the circle of fifths and the chords that belong together.

  1. Step 1Guitar chord chart: 36 common chords with fingering
  2. Step 2The circle of fifths, explained like a clock
  3. Step 3Standard tuning for guitar, ukulele and bass
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I want to go deeper

Modes, reading key signatures quickly and the Italian words in scores.

  1. Step 1Modes: same notes, different home · Scales
  2. Step 2One more sharp or flat at each place · Circle of fifths
  3. Step 3Italian music terms, explained simply
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