Music Theory Instruction

HA! Okay – if you clicked on this… then you must already be serious. Who cares about music theory? Well, every musician eventually has to care about it, and one of the things I do at Crescendo Music Loft is make it fun and immediately applicable. For example, voice students learn interval identification, and piano students learn key signatures and chord construction. If you play an instrument that I don’t play, I can still help you with ear training and learning how music is organized. It’s the same for every instrument.

Every high school student who has worked through my entire course has scored 5 out of 5 on their AP Music Theory test, and you can study with me and take the test outside of having any coursework at school.

I am in the process of preparing one student in particular for her AP Music Theory test next year, and here are some of the texts I sent her every day to help her learn chord analysis: