Music Arcade · the reference shelf
Resources
Handy references, printables and links — the stuff you keep coming back to.
Naming the Notes
Every Good Boy Deserves Food & FACE — the treble-clef notes, with sounds to tap. A friendly first lesson.
Chords
Every major & minor chord around the circle of fifths — piano & guitar diagrams, spotlight the root/third/fifth, tap to hear. Print it out.
Scale Theory
Every scale is a pattern of whole and half steps. Major & minor, why we bend the minor for gravity, pentatonics, the blue note and the modes — on the piano and on a single string.
Chord Theory
How the four basic chords are built — stack two thirds. See them on the piano, learn the old string-instrument story, then build one along a single string and across the whole neck.
Blues Theory
The blue note, the major & minor blues scales, the dominant 7th chords behind it, the 12-bar form to jam on, and four ways to solo over it.
Ukulele Chords
Ten first chords with dots colour-coded by finger, plus a hand key. Tap to hear each strum.
Find the Note
Pick any note and see exactly where it is on your instrument — the whole chromatic scale mapped to piano, guitar, ukulele, bass & banjo. Tap to hear it.
Circle of Fifths
The map of every key — click a slice for its key signature, scale, chords and closest neighbours, and hear it. The whole system on one wheel.
Rhythm Zoo
Every note is an animal — sheep, monkey, caterpillar, zoo. Say the word and clap each part. Tap to hear it.
More on the way…
- Printable staves & blank tab sheets
- The circle of fifths, one clean page
- Chord & scale reference charts
- A practice-log template
