Tagged “music-theory”
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Microtiming in Master of Puppets
A music theorist breaks down the microtiming of a riff in Metallica's Master of Puppets, showing how tiny rhythmic shift…
Monuments of Partimenti
Explore partimenti, the bass-line exercises young musicians in 18th-century Naples used to learn improvisation and compo…
Music & Geometry: Intervals and Scales
An illustrated explainer showing how musical intervals and scales map onto circles and polygons, with diagrams that reve…
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
A collection of free, beautifully illustrated one-page music theory explainers by Toby Rush, covering notation, scales,…
Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
A free open online textbook that teaches music theory from scales and intervals to harmony and form, with embedded examp…
Musicca
A free music learning platform with bite-size lessons, exercises, and online tools including a piano, metronome, and cho…
musictheory.net
A free site offering music theory lessons, exercises, and ear-training tools for learners of all levels.
musictheory.net
Free music theory lessons plus interactive exercises, ear trainers and calculators for notes, intervals, scales and chor…
Muted.io
A colorful collection of interactive music theory tools and visual references covering scales, chords, intervals, and rh…
Note Circle
An interactive circle-of-notes cheat sheet for learning musical scales, intervals, and modes, built as a teaching aid fo…
NYJW Jazz Education Blog
A jazz education blog from the New York Jazz Workshop with playing tips, music theory explainers, and news from the NYC…
Octave Compass
An interactive compass of the twelve notes: pick a scale or mode and see its shape on the wheel, hear it, and explore ev…
Open Music Theory
A free, open-source college-level music theory textbook covering everything from notation fundamentals to post-tonal ana…
Perfect Pitch Puzzle
A daily Wordle-style ear-training game where you identify musical notes purely by ear, with puzzles that get harder as y…
PianoChord.io
An interactive piano chord reference where you pick a root and chord type to see the keys highlighted and hear how each…
Puzzlecanon
A close look at puzzle canons, the enigmatic riddle-like compositions by Bach and others where the score hides how the m…
Rawl
A visual music theory tool that draws chords as colored flags, showing the harmony of top composers from MuseScore score…
Reelear
A set of free web apps for ear training that generate melody, arpeggio, and harmony dictation exercises without abstract…
Scale Sequencer
A browser step sequencer where you click tiles to build melodies and chord progressions in any scale or mode, with a pen…
Sharp11
A browser client for the Sharp11 music theorization and improvisation engine, built for exploring music theory and gener…
Standard Guitar
A guitar learning tool for browsing chords and scales on an interactive fretboard, plus a play-along mode that pulls son…
StringScales
A free interactive fretboard that visualizes any scale on guitar or bass, lets you build chord progressions, and plays a…
StudyBass
Free interactive online bass guitar lessons since 2003, covering technique, theory, rhythm, chord tones, scales and the…
Teoria
A music theory site offering free tutorials, interactive exercises, and reference articles used by students and teachers…
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