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I came across an interesting site last night…

Wikifonia.org is a place where you can download free lead sheet pdfs.  The best part is that it’s completely legal: in fact, the author rights of copyrighted music are compensated (read more here).

Lead sheets can be a fun way for students (especially for teen/adult students) to use and practice their knowledge of theory, chords, and voice leading in a practical, fun way!

Some quick examples of songs they have available:

• The Beatles
• What A Wonderful World
• Stevie Wonder
• Folk tunes (including Christmas songs)
• Jazz standards
• Soundtracks/music theatre
• and much more!

Check it out!

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>  Scales & Primary Chords Worksheet 1 (CGDF)

Ideally, this worksheet is designed for the intermediate+ student who is already familiar with the scales and primary chords for the keys of C, G, D, and F major, and perhaps could use some review in writing them out on the staff.  However, this worksheet could also be used during a group lesson while introducing these ideas for the first time.

Terms/concepts covered in the worksheet:

• An understanding of key signatures for C, G, D, and F major.
• Practice writing out scales.
• Practice writing out primary chords.

Watch for the next worksheet coming soon, covering D, A, E, and Bb major!

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1. your favorite pickup line is, “What’s your favorite augmented sixth chord?”
2. your second favorite pickup line is, “Would you like to raise my leading tone?”
3. you dream in four parts.
4. your biological clock follows a non-retrogradable isorhythm.
5. you can improvise 16th century counterpoint with no trouble, but you frequently forget how to tie your shoes.
6. you expected something quite different out of The Matrix.
7. you can answer your phone with a tonal or a real answer.
8. you like to tease your friends and loved ones with deceptive cadences.
9. you know how large a major 23rd is without having to count.
10. you only drink fifths, and then you laugh at the pun.
11. you feel the need to end Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique Symphony with a picardy third.  
12. instead of counting sheep, you count sequences.
13. you find free counterpoint too liberal.  
14. you wonder what a Danish sixth would sound like.
15. you long for the good old days of movable G-clefs.
16. you can hear an enharmonic modulation coming a mile away.
17. you have had to be forced to stop labeling motives.
18. you confuse fishsticks with ground bass.
19. you found No.19 funny.
20. you have ever tried to do a Schenkerian analysis on “Three Blind Mice.”
21. you have ever tried to do a Schenkerian analysis on 4’33”.
22. you have ever had a gebrauchsmusik party.  
23. you lament the decline of serialism.
24. you know what the ninth overtone of the harmonic series is off the top of your head.
25. you have ever dressed up as counterpoint for Halloween.
26. you have ever written a musical palindrome and given it a witty title. 
27. you can name ten of Palestrina’s contemporaries.
28. you have ever found a typographical error in a score by Ives, Nancarrow, or Babbitt.
29. you have ever heard a wrong note in a performance of a composition by Ives, Nancarrow, or Babbitt. 
30. you enjoy the tang of a tritone whenever you can.
31. you have ever played through your music as if the fingering markings were figured bass symbols.  
32. you suspiciously check all the music you play for dangling sevenths.  
33. you have devised your own tuning method.
34. you keep a notebook of useful diminutions.
35. you have composed variations on a theme by Anton Webern.
36. you know the difference between a Courante and a Corrente. 
37. you have trained your dog to jump through a flaming circle of fifths.
38. you have ever used the word fortspinnung in polite conversation.
39. you feel cheated by evaded cadences. 
40. you organize phone numbers based on their prime form.
41. you find it amusing to refer to your ear-training course sections as your “pitch classes.”  
42. every now and again you like to kick back and play a tune in hypophrygian mode.
43. you wonder why there aren’t more types of seventh chords.  
44. you wish you had twelve fingers.
45. you like polytonal music because, hey, the more keys the merrier.  
46. you abbreviate your shopping list using figured bass symbols.
47. you always make sure to invert your counterpoint, just in case.
48. you have ever told a joke with a punchline of: because if was polyphonic!
49. your lips may say, “perfect fourth,” but in your heart it will always be “diatessaron.”
50. you have ever said, “Yes, didn’t Scriabin use that sonority in . . .”
51. you know dirty acronyms for the order of sharps.  
52. you can name relatives of the “Grandmother Chord.”
53. you’re still wondering why I haven’t included the “must-resolve-the-dominant-seventh-before-going-to-bed” indicator. 
54. you can not only identify any one of Bach’s 371 Harmonized Chorales by ear, but you also know what page it is on in the Riemenschneider edition and how many suspensions it has in the first four bars. 
55. you got more than half of the jokes on this list.

I hope this list gave you at least a few chuckles.  This list originally a list of 75, but I whittled it down to 55 to omit some of the ones I totally didn’t get.  

I can’t take credit for this list – it was given to me by my theory professor at college two years back.  I hope you enjoyed it.

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Remember, “Tr” means “treble clef” and “B” means “bass clef.”

Happy worksheet-making!  

Major and Minor Chords in both Treble and Bass clefs:

• Chord Abmajor B
• Chord Abmajor Tr
• Chord Abminor B
• Chord Abminor Tr
• Chord Amajor B
• Chord Amajor Tr
• Chord Aminor B
• Chord Aminor Tr
• Chord Bbmajor B
• Chord Bbmajor Tr
• Chord Bbminor B
• Chord Bbminor Tr
• Chord Bmajor B
• Chord Bmajor Tr
• Chord Bminor B
• Chord Bminor Tr
• Chord C#major B
• Chord C#major Tr
• Chord C#minor B
• Chord C#minor Tr
• Chord Cbmajor B
• Chord Cbmajor Tr
• Chord Cbminor B
• Chord Cbminor Tr
• Chord Cmajor B
• Chord Cmajor Tr
• Chord Cminor B
• Chord Cminor Tr
• Chord Dbmajor B
• Chord Dbmajor Tr
• Chord Dbminor B
• Chord Dbminor Tr
• Chord Dmajor B
• Chord Dmajor Tr
• Chord Dminor B
• Chord Dminor Tr
• Chord Ebmajor B
• Chord Ebmajor Tr
• Chord Ebminor B
• Chord Ebminor Tr
• Chord Emajor B
• Chord Emajor Tr
• Chord Eminor B
• Chord Eminor Tr
• Chord F#major B
• Chord F#major Tr
• Chord F#minor B
• Chord F#minor Tr
• Chord Fmajor B
• Chord Fmajor Tr
• Chord Fminor B
• Chord Fminor Tr
• Chord Gbmajor B
• Chord Gbmajor Tr
• Chord Gbminor B
• Chord Gbminor Tr
• Chord Gmajor B
• Chord Gmajor Tr
• Chord Gminor B
• Chord Gminor Tr

Please, let me know if you find any errors.  And as always, leave comments and share about how you managed to make use of these image files!

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