Links ...
Local Music Shops, Piano Tuners and Violin Repairs
- White and Sentence based in Sleaford, for tuning and all piano services
- Mr Piano for piano tuning
- Nick Cooper for violin repairs
- AH Music a family run music shop in Grantham
- Stamford Music Shop
- Invoice - a ladies singing group, run by Jenny
- Motif - an instrumental ensemble, run by Jenny
Sheet Music Online
- Piano Pronto An American site with many lovely books and digital downloads (including Jenny's music)
- Free stuff from Chrissy Ricker
- Joyce Music : A site with very well arranged free sheet music of film and pop songs, often with easy and harder versions.
- Forewoods Score Store - classical printed music and accessories. Based in Canterbury
- musicroom : A good site to buy sheet music online and digital downloads.
- Ackerman music: an online music service based in Brighton, UK
- score-on-line : Free classical piano sheet music.
- sheet music plus : Pay for digital downloads of a huge selection and variety of piano music.
- Susan Paradis : Lovely piano music written by a piano teacher for beginners up to about grade 2.
- pianoplateau : Pay for individual arrangements of chart and film themes. Level is from about grade 3/4 upwards.
- gmajormusic : A large variety of music arranged into levels from early beginners upwards.
- Harris arrangements : Graded arrangements of classical and film/tv themes. No need to subscribe, but an email address is required
- Making Music Fun : A great variety of music for beginners to grade 3. There are also duets included in each level.
- Musicnotes : another site to download reliable arrangements of well-known sheet music.
Music software
Dorico SE - free music notation software
Games
Rhythm Bandit (Grades 1 - 5) - make a note of your highest score.
Theory and aural practice
- Hofnote - Listen, Understand, Enjoy - contains links to samples from ABRSM and Trinity
- Music theory.net
- Online musical dictionary
- Musical Playground For Kids - a US site, useful for theory starters
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Susan Paradis resources - good worksheets for the young student
- A Sight-reading practice - a website that lets you sight-read notes in both treble and bass clefs, and play the corresponding notes on a full-size piano keyboard. You can also set the level of difficulty you want, to focus on specific key signatures and note ranges.
- Mission to Magmanon - for younger pianists. Brush up your sight-reading skills with this fun online game. The inhabitants of the planet Toness communicate through music; players use the piano keys to rescue trapped scientists. Creating Music - Three fun listening games for children. Two games ask you to spot changes to melodies; some you write yourself. The third asks you to create and recall short rhythms.
- ABRSM theory quiz - grades 1-5. You'll also see on the page links to sample papers
- ABRSM Theory Works app - available in the Apps store and in Google Play
- My Music Theory - for ABRSM and Trinity theory examination preparation
- Music theory examination preparation at Udemy
- Purchase Trinity theory papers
- Music Online UK - a theory course suitable for grades 105 ABRSM and Trinity
- Clements theory
- Music Theory.net
http://www.musictheory.org.uk
Earmaster - Free Course - Open University
Tone Savy (free during school closure)
Teoria
Chords
- jellynote : chord sheets with lyrics
- Practising the piano by Graham Finch. Useful hints and tips.
- e-chords : chord sheet with lyrics
- hooktheory : shows you chords for songs but you can also see how to play the chords on the piano
- chordify : you can paste a url or mp3 into the site and it will work out the chords for you
- piano chord sheet : every basic major and minor chords on the piano
- advanced chord sheet : a useful pdf showing most piano chords
