Music Theory lessons

Music is generally thought of as being in two parts, practical and music theory. The practical element of musicianship involves the playing of your chosen instrument, be it guitar, piano, flute, drums or singing.

The theory part relates to how and why music works. For example, you may have learned to play three chords on your guitar at home, ‘C Major,’ ‘A minor’ and ‘G Major’. That would work perfectly well until you wanted to know what scales could be played along with these chords, and why do some scales sound like the right fit and others don’t? There is only so far that a musician can go without studying music theory, it is the gel that holds everything together and brings everything in music to make sense.

All of our teachers at Morningside School of Music are qualified experts in music theory, and each teacher holds their own particular strand of interest. For example, our drums tutors are experts at rhythm, timing, polyrhythms and percussion notation, whereas our piano teachers are leaders in the field of classical notation, harmony, cadences, and scales.

It is quite common for clients at the music school learning a musical instrument or voice to have music theory lessons along the way. That said, we also have musicians who are teaching themselves at home who attend Morningside School of Music for theory tuition. You can only go so far in music without recruiting music theory into your repertoire at some point.

There are two approaches to learning music theory. The graded method and the casual way.