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Music Theory

Grade 2 Music Theory

Ledger lines, triplets, minor keys and more terms.

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Start the courseNotes, rests and dots: a recap

9 units, 39 lessons

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    10 questions across the course.

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    What you’ll be able to do

    • Read triplets
    • Read accidentals in a bar
    • Find any degree of the scale by number
    • Tell melodic from harmonic intervals
    • Recognise and complete a tonic triad
    • Put the dynamics in order

    Units and lessons

    9 units, 39 lessons

    A look inside

    Notes, rests and dots: a recap

    Five note values

    Each note, then its rest

    Count note values in crotchets. Each value lasts half the one before: semibreve 4, minim 2, crotchet 1. A quaver is half a beat, a semiquaver a quarter of a beat. Every note has a rest of the same length, from the semibreve rest down.

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    How many semiquavers fit into one crotchet?

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    Alongside the lessons

    Music terms and the metronome

    About this grade

    Ledger lines, triplets, the first minor keys and more terms: Grade 2 theory taught step by step, then practised.

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    Which syllabus does it follow?

    It follows the ABRSM Music Theory syllabus for Grade 2 (the syllabus from 2020, checked against ABRSM on 9 October 2026). Brainlag is independent and not affiliated with ABRSM.

    What is free?

    Every lesson and its practice, and each unit's topic test. Brainlag Plus adds new questions on every topic test and the mock paper.

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    How long does it take?

    About 2 hr 20 min of lessons in 9 units. Lessons take 3 to 5 minutes each.