Struggling with Music theory ?

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How does it work?

  • Purchase the course. (The board & magnet set are included in the price for Decoding Theory)

  • Your board and materials will arrive through the post

  • Work through the bite-size training videos at your own pace

  • Lift the lid on musical theory!

  • 1:1 mentoring sessions with Ruth Travers are an optional add on and can be arranged to support your learning

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Decoding Theory

will teach students to...

  • Enjoy & Understand Theory!

    We take the stress out of theory by helping students decode notation and play music intelligently having made sense of their pieces.

  • Compose & Sightread

    Students are given the tools to read and write musical compositions, removing barriers to learning

  • Build Musical Confidence

    Students gain the confidence to embrace new musical challenges and work competently towards theory exams.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • How to use this course

    • Introduction
  • 2

    Clefs: Treble, Bass & Alto

    • Here is a House - Treble Clef Spaces

    • Treble Clef Spaces

    • Middle C & D (Treble Clef)

    • Introducing Treble Clef B

    • Note builder Song

    • Treble clef Lines

    • How to remember the Bass Clef Notes

    • Bass clef notes - Student Demo

    • The Alto Clef - Student demo

    • Bass clef /Alto Clef video

    • two octaves using both clefs

    • END OF MODULE WORKSHEET
  • 3

    Rhythm

    • Introducing Rhythm Characters 1 - Crochets, Minims, Quavers, Semibreves

    • Practise clapping

    • Correct Stems check

    • Adding Counts

    • Adding counts -Student demo

    • Making bars

    • Introducing Rhythm Characters 2 - Semiquavers and Triplets

    • Dotted Crotchet

    • END OF MODULE WORKSHEET
  • 4

    Key Signatures: Sharps & Flats

    • Key Signature Cafe (Sharps)

    • Key Sig Knowledge Check

    • Intervals practise

    • Ferdi factory -the major Flat keys

    • Ferdi's Fox Factory (Flat keysignatures) Student Demo

    • Ferdis Factory -The major Flat keys - this song and story teaches you up to 5 flats .
  • 5

    Scales

    • Making a scale student demo for level 3

    • Technical Names of the Scale

    • Tones & Semitones

    • Tones & Semitones - Knowledge check

    • Making a Relative Minor and Harmonic Minor Scale Pattern

    • How to Find a Relative Minor - Knowledge Check

    • Melodic Minor Pattern

    • How to make a Pentatonic Scale
  • 6

    Music and Lyrics

    • Here is a House F Major

    • Key Signature Cafe Song

    • Technical Names of the Scale

    • Tone and Semitone Song

    • Interval song

    • Bass clef Nonsense Song

    • Song Lyrics
  • 7

    Playlist

    • Here is a house - Music only (optional)

    • Here is house - sung vocals

    • Notebuilder Song

    • Rhythm Family Song

    • Bass Clef Song

    • Alto Clef Bay

    • Key Signature cafe - Sharps

    • Ferdis Factory Flat Keys

    • Technical Names of Scales

    • Semitone Song

    • Bass Clef Nonsense Song - bass clef spaces
  • 8

    What next?

    • One to one reminder

    • What about other methods and terminology ?

FAQ

  • How does Stave House help my young person to understand musical theory?

    Stave House is not like any other musical programme. It is based around characters and storytelling and uses hands on materials with bold animations.

  • Stave House looks like a primary method, how will it help my teenager?

    The cartoon characters will help to take the pressure off from what up until now has been a daunting and heavy going slog process of trying to remember things. The visual characterisation of notes embeds in the mind and the imagination builds an idea of the characters rather than an abstract note name.

  • What do we need the board and magnets for?

    Tactile learning. We use three senses instead of one and this is key to assisting focus and concentration! The board allows deconstruction of the learning, making it a more enjoyable process, as well as giving students physical ownership of the tasks.

  • We've heard this method is great for kids with Dyslexia, why is that?

    It is visual and tactile, involving the use of more than one of the senses. The method uses non-conventional ways of teaching notation to embed musical concepts. The stories and characters allow students to make sense of complex musical concepts without being met by the usual barriers to learning. Stave House deconstructs the ideas and explains how to rebuild them so that students are left with intelligent distilled logic and a consciousness of what they are doing and why.

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