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?

Half Steps and Whole Steps: No, we are not talking about walking here. We are talking about distances between notes on the guitar. They are also known as intervals. But I prefer to use the terms half steps and whole steps, because it is less confusing. Also do not get these terms confused with Whole [...]