Course Progress

  • Introduction
    • About the course
  • Sound
    • 1. Sound Production
    • 2. Sound Characteristics
    • 3. Musical and Unmusical Sound
    • 4. Musical Sound
  • Staff Notation
    • 5. The Great Staff
    • 6. The Compass of Pipe Bands
  • Duration
    • 7. Sound and Note Durations
    • 8. Lengthening Note Durations
    • 9. Simple and Compound Notes
  • Time
    • 10. Rhythm and Bars
    • 11. Simple and Compound Time
    • 12. Time Signatures
  • Other Staff Notation
    • 13. Tempo, Volume and Expression
    • 14. Embellishments, Ornaments & Gracenotes
  • Writing Music
  • Preliminary Certificate: Playing
    • Playing Requirements
  • Elementary Certificate: Playing 
    • Playing Requirements
    • Monotone Exercises