Theory

[sunshine_keys]

Heelllllooooo once again.

So, the end of March will be 2 years that I've been taking lessons. I finished level 4 of Bastien Piano Basics the end of this summer and ever since then my teacher has just been giving me songs to practice each week, I practice them, go back, and she gives me new songs. I have a book with classical pieces, so we'll usually take one of those and then I'll try to print off some other random pieces that I've been wanting to work on.

She had said something about teaching me theory, but we haven't been doing any. So last night at my lesson I asked her about it. She said that doing my scales, and arpeggios counts as theory and then later on, as we progress I'll get more in depth with chords. She said she could look into some theory books for me or something if thats what I wanted. But that going through those 4 levels was a lot of information, obviously there is more stuff I could learn. But I got the main stuff.. or basics. I don't know.

I was just wondering if you guys knew of a site or something where I could get some free theory worksheets or something. Or maybe recommend some books?

Thanks!

[jugular]

https://www.musictheory.net/lessons

I like visiting that site once in a while if I feel the random urge to do some ear training exercises. It also has basic theory lessons that go up to basic voice leading. I suggest you try and find some books on basic and intermediate harmony if you find that the lessons on the suggested site are too basic, they will dwelve deeper into voice leading rules and provide you with many examples and questions to work on. As I said before though, that site is great for ear training exercises in intervals, chord quality naming, etc.

[sunshine_keys]

https://www.musictheory.net/lessons

I like visiting that site once in a while if I feel the random urge to do some ear training exercises. It also has basic theory lessons that go up to basic voice leading. I suggest you try and find some books on basic and intermediate harmony if you find that the lessons on the suggested site are too basic, they will dwelve deeper into voice leading rules and provide you with many examples and questions to work on. As I said before though, that site is great for ear training exercises in intervals, chord quality naming, etc.

Thanks.. I'll definitely check it out.

[ajspiano]

you could also look at this site..

https://teoria.com/

[pianoplunker]

Heelllllooooo once again.

So, the end of March will be 2 years that I've been taking lessons. I finished level 4 of Bastien Piano Basics the end of this summer and ever since then my teacher has just been giving me songs to practice each week, I practice them, go back, and she gives me new songs. I have a book with classical pieces, so we'll usually take one of those and then I'll try to print off some other random pieces that I've been wanting to work on.

She had said something about teaching me theory, but we haven't been doing any. So last night at my lesson I asked her about it. She said that doing my scales, and arpeggios counts as theory and then later on, as we progress I'll get more in depth with chords. She said she could look into some theory books for me or something if thats what I wanted. But that going through those 4 levels was a lot of information, obviously there is more stuff I could learn. But I got the main stuff.. or basics. I don't know.

I was just wondering if you guys knew of a site or something where I could get some free theory worksheets or something. Or maybe recommend some books?

Thanks!

I would agree with your teacher because scales are essential to understanding theory. But so are the pieces you are practicing/playing. Learning theory is much better when you can see theory applied to the pieces you play.  But first you need to understand the scales. I used to learn some from theory books but the learning curve went vertical when me and my teacher could talk about the theory in the actual music.   By the way - chords are what is theoretically important, not aprpeggios but please dont tell your teacher you read this on the internet. Arpeggios are a method of executing a chordal harmony but is the chord itself that counts. Why is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata so famous ? It is only a few chords after all