Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Scales That Aren't Major or Minor

It's all relative. Young music theorists are asked to count to three and identify the relative major and minor keys of keys that share the same signature.

Take a look at the two intervals of the half step and whole step and how they make up the chromatic and whole tone scales. This page includes a couple of self checking problems to test your knowledge.

A detailed site explaining about ear training for musicians. Included are many links to other relevant articles that go more in depth about the various aspects of developing ear training. There is also a downloadable ear training game to...

Learn about the various types of triads. This lesson focuses on the chords in root position. Included in this site are a few self checking tests.

Read everything there is to know about the basics of notes. From their durations, their shapes and their stems, you will learn how notes are used in music.

Dealing with the harmonic series, this website goes into come detail concerning pitch, frequency and color. Test your knowledge with several self checking problems.

Learn about simple intervals and compound intervals in this well writtern lesson. You will also learn how an interval is classified. Included are several self checking problems.

Learn about key signatures with this well written tutorial. You can test what you have learned near the bottom of the page with a key signature problem. The solution is available with just a click of the mouse.

To explain the various musical scales that cannot be classified as major or minor such as chromatic, whole-tone, pentatonic, blues, and scales from non-Western music

An excellent resource explaining the details that characterize ragtime music. From the rhythms to the typical form, this site gives a great overview of this early style of jazz.