Tips & Insights from the Music Room Video Lesson: How Well Do You Know Music Theory?

Hello and welcome.

Today we're going to talk about a new section we have just released on our Virtual Sheet Music website dedicated to music theory.

And you will find two subsections, they are based on our popular music theory series we released on our YouTube channel a few years ago.

But additional material will be certainly added in the coming months, so stay tuned.

But what's interesting about these tutorials is the ability to perform practice tests after each lesson, to actually test your knowledge and consolidate your music learning.

And they are not only for beginners.

So particularly useful and amusing to try are the Quizzes and Flashcards series, which is very good for expert musicians as well.

So if you are a beginner you can learn from the basics, but if you are an expert musician you can test your knowledge on exorgy clefs like the soprano clef or the tenor clef or the baritone clef or even the 7th chords.

They are not easy, not even for expert musicians.

So let me show you how all this works.

Okay, so if you head to virtuoshipmusic .com slash theory you will find the new section. As I said, you see two different subsections. The first one is the Basic Music Principles seven part series, which is based on our popular music theory YouTube series. The second one is the Music Theory Quizzes and Flashcards series, which is also based on our popular YouTube series.

Just to show you how everything works, let's try with the first tutorial.

As you can see, the tutorial is divided in different subsections.

You can start from the first one if you are a beginner, which explains what is music and what is music notes. You can watch the video if you haven't seen it yet.

There is like a summary here of what it is explained inside the video.

You can also show text transcription of what's explained inside the video.

If you scroll down at the bottom you will find the practice test, which is very interesting and useful.

In this case I can show you how it works. The question is what is music? The answer is of course the art of sounds.

What is the staff? It's not a long stick, but it's a canvas where to place notes.

You can also actually listen to audio.

This is clearly a high pitch.

You select a high pitch, it's a low pitch, this is probably a low pitch.

What clef is this? Of course it's a bass clef.

There you can check your answers.

It gives you a score with a choir in the background. You can try it again and move on to the next tutorial. Each tutorial is done pretty much in the same way. There is a video, there is a written explanation and review of the video, and a practice test at the end.

This is the first series, right? Let's get back to the music theory main page.

If you select the second tutorial you will see this is a very long series of over 20 different videos and quizzes.

If you select the first one, which asks you about notes treble clef, again you can watch the video if you want.

Since this video is asking you what note is this, and gives you a time to answer the question.

For example, this is clearly a C note in treble clef.

You have to guess and answer what is shown here. At the end of the video, after actually 14 questions, you should enter here how many correct answers you got, so that you can compare your score with other people's.

Let's try to enter 8. Actually 8 is pretty low. Let's say 12 over 14.

I did better than the average score of 8. Well, I guess people need to learn music a little bit more.

What are the notes in treble clef? Here is a quiz review. It's reviewing everything and we have a practice test again here.

For the quizzes, the practice test is much more interesting and engaging, because it's similar to the video. If I start the practice test, it's going to hide the explanation so you cannot cheat.

It's asking you the first question. What note is this? We are in treble clef, so this is clearly a B note, right? It's giving you the correct answer.

What happens if I give a wrong answer? In this case, it's an F note. I'm going to give a B note again. Of course, it's wrong, so you also have sounds that make everything more funny and amusing to play.

You have 10 questions. At the end of the questions, they give you a score.

You can stop the practice test at any time and get back to the regular page with an explanation.

What's very useful is that once you complete the test, your results will be stored into our database.

Every time you get back to this page, you will find your last score.

If your score is not perfect, you can actually improve your score by trying again the test.

You move on to the next quiz and try the test again, this time on the bass clef.

The next quiz is going to be on the alto clef, which is not easy, as I said, not even for expert musicians.

I really advise expert musicians to try these tests.

And so on, you move on with the next test.

Alright, so go on the new music theory section. The link is right here below.

Let me know how you score. I'm really curious to know that.

As always, post your comments in the comments section below or send an email to tipsandinsights@virtualsheetmusic.com. I will be happy to hear from you.

Alright, so I'm done for today and I will see you in the next one.

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