In this free kids guitar lesson we will explore 6/8 timing. 6/8 time indicates that there are 6 beats per measure with eighth notes receiving the beat. Learn how to spot this timing by knowing what to look for in your music notation and how to precisely play in 6/8 time. We will give you several examples and use them in actual music notation.

Alternate Endings: Alternate endings provides the author of the music with yet another short-hand method of reducing the amount of music that is required to be written within the score. If alternate endings did not exist, some scores could be as much as 10 or 12 pages rather than 2 or 3 pages. Alternate Endings [...]

Music Symbols Quiz 1: The first quiz on using notes for addition and subtraction. Go ahead and take it. There are 18 problems with answers. Go ahead and take it. How well could you do? I guarantee you will scratch your head over some of these.

Music Symbols Quiz 1: The first quiz on how to recognize musical symbols. There are 15 multiple choice question with answers. Go ahead and take it. How well could you do?

A bit of Kids Music Theory is offered up here as we discuss the dotted notes and what the dot affects a standard whole, half, quarter and eighth notes. Timing issues are also discussed at length.