Tied notes give you more options in note timing to extend the number of beats a note can receive. In this free lesson you will learn what tied notes are, what they look like and how they are used in music.

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 Terms Quiz #1 Source: Kid Music Theory Music Terms Quiz #1: And you thought you wouldn’t get any quizzes here didn’t you? Sorry, you do have to know this stuff. Maybe not everything right away, but I want to make sure you aren’t blown away by Music Terms in the near future. To study [...]

Accidentals, which are more commonly known as flats and sharps are explained in this free kids guitar lesson. Find out how to play them, where they are located on the guitar fretboard and their purpose in music. Free Lessons will then be related to this article on Accidentals.

Octaves: What is an octave? The answer to that is really quite simple. If you recall from our Kids Music Theory article, there are (7) notes in the scale. Those being: A B C D E F G A. This is called one Octave. Really one Octave spans from any note to any note of [...]

One of the most important things you will have to learn about playing from music on the Staff is how notes carry time. There are many different types of notes that we will be learning and each one of them has a different length of time that you let it ring. With the music you [...]

Notes in the C scale: Since most of our songs for the first several weeks to months will be played in the Key of C, we will go over the C Scale notes and have you memorize just where they are and teach you how to play them. Ready? Here they are! There are 7 [...]