MUSIC MEMORY DEVICES 
Intervals Earmaster m2 up | Silver Bells O Danny Boy Jaws Stormy Weather Pink Panther White Christmas (I'm dreaming) | m2 down | Joy to the World Fur Elise | M2 up | Frere Jacques Brother John (Are you sleeping) Silent Night Happy Birthday | M2 down | Three Blind Mice Deck the Halls Yesterday | m3 up | Greensleeves The Impossible Dream So Long, Farewell (from The Sound of Music) Brahm's Lullaby Inna Gadda Da Vida | m3 down | This Old Man Star Spangled Banner Hey Jude playground tease | M3 up | Kum Ba Yah Marines' Hymn (From the halls of Montezuma) When the Saints Go Marching In On Top of Old Smokey Holy, Holy, Holy | M3 down | Beethoven's 5th Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Summertime | P4 up | Auld Lang Syne Here Comes the Bride Taps The Eyes of Texas Home on the Range Amazing Grace O Christmas Tree Pop Goes the Weasel | P4 down | Old MacDonald I've Been Working on the Railroad All of Me Shave and a Haircut O Come, All Ye Faithful My Girl | Tritone up | Maria The Simpsons | Tritone down | | P5 up | Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Star Wars Flying Monkeys theme from Wizard of Oz My Favorite Things | P5 down | Flintstones Superman theme It Don't Mean a Thing Erie Canal For Unto Us a Child Is Born | m6 up | The Entertainer (3rd and 4th notes, then repeated) | m6 down | Love Story | M6 up | NBC My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Surfer Girl Jingle Bells (Dashing through the snow) My Way Hush Little Baby | M6 down | Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Over There School Days Music of the Night Crazy Sweet Caroline | m7 up | Somewhere (There's a place for us) Star Trek (theme from original series) Have you driven a Ford lately (commercial) The Winner Takes It All (Abba) | m7 down | Watermelon Man | M7 up | Bali Hai (1st and 3rd notes) Color My World (1st and 4th notes) Don't Know Why (Norah Jones "I waited til I saw the sun") | M7 down | | P8 up | Somewhere Over the Rainbow Purple Haze | P8 down | | Major chord up | Can't Buy Me Love | Major chord down | Dixie (Oh I wish) | Minor chord up | | Minor chord down | |
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Use the links below to drill intervals online BigEars EarTrainer Key Signatures 
The name of the key is the next to last flat, Or with sharps pick the last, then the letter past that. Order of Flats | Order of Sharps | B E A D Greatest Common Factor | Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Bugs (or Birds) | Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father | Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle | Bread Eating After Dinner Gets Cats Fat | Fat Cats Get Dinner After Eating Bread | Bright Eternal Angels Defend God's Church | Fidel Castro Gets Drunk At Every Bar | | B E A D - Go Call Fred! | Fred Can't Go Driving After Eight Beers | | British European Airlines Do Great Continental Flights | Fat Country Girls Dance And Eat Biscuits | | | Funny Country Girls Dance and Eat Biscuits | | Four Chorus Girls Danced All Evening Bare |
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Note: These are not of my invention and I would be happy to give credit if someone would like to claim responsibility!
Here's a shortcut to come up with the number of sharps or flats in a given key: Look at 2 scales with the same letter name. For example: Gb Major and G Major The number of flats in the Gb scale plus the number of sharps in the G scale will equal 7 In this case, it's easy to remember that the key of G Major has 1 sharp, so with lightning speed, you can calculate that Gb Major must have 6 flats!
c minor | | c# minor | | | d minor | | d# minor | | | Ab Major | | A Major | | | G Major | | Gb Major | | 3 flats | + | 4 sharps | =7 | | 1 flat | + | 6 sharps | =7 | | 4 flats | + | 3 sharps | =7 | | 1 sharp | + | 6 flats | =7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Go to this link for more information on this hint Repeat Sign 
Dot, dot, line, line - This is a repeat sign! Double Barline 
When you see two lines, my friend, Then you know it is the end. (Heather Hawk, Tarleton State University) Note Names Names of Lines in Treble Clef | Names of Spaces in Treble Clef | Every Good Boy Does Fine | F A C E (spells face) | | Elvis' Guitar Broke Down Friday | | | Even George Bush Drives Fords | | | Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips | | | Every Green Bus Drives Fast | |
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Names of Lines in Bass Clef | Names of Spaces in Bass Clef | Great Big Dogs Fight Animals | All Cows Eat Grass | | Grizzly Bears Don't Fear Anything | All Cars Eat Gas | | Great Big Dogs Frighten Albert | |
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The Music Alphabet Song A-B-C-D-E-F-G
Music letters STOP at G!
If you want to name a space, Just remember they spell F-A-C-E
If you want to learn the lines, Say "Every Good Boy Does Fine"
MODES | I DON'T PARTICULARLY LIKE MODES A LOT |
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Ionian Dorian Phrygian Lydian Mixolydian Aeolian Locrian My Dorian (the car) will go up to 6th gear. (raised 6th) Wait a second (2nd), it's friggin' (Phrygian) cold in here! (lowered 2nd) For (Four) Lydian's sake! (raised 4th) I am 'mixing' (Mixolydian) a Major 2nd into the end of the scale. (subtonic instead of leading tone) (I do not know who came up with these. Let me know and I'll give you credit!) Voice Leading Names of Keys on a Keyboard Digger's Dog House shows you where the D is on a keyboard. 2 Black keys designates the Dog House 3 Black keys is the Big House 
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MUSIC HISTORY | to the tune of "I've Got Rhythm" I got rhythm, I got pitches, In 1250 Who can notate anything more? In 1250 Franco proposed a system of dots and stems that gave relative duration to notes. (David Meckler, Canada College) |
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| to the tune of the Beatles' "Michelle" Machaut, you know, Wrote motets and songs so long ago, Guillaume Machaut. Machaut was the leading Ars Nova composer (1300-1377) (David Meckler, Canada College) |
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AUGMENTED 6ths Sung to the tune of The Addams Family (Chorus inserted between verses, if you're not in a hurry) Augmented sixths Augmented sixths These are the tricks so we won’t mix Augmented sixths Italian, French and German Now here’s how to determine The 3rd, we’ll be affirmin’ Just check the 4th and 5th. Italian is completed, A third is all that’s needed And that note is repeated In this augmented sixth. The French one sounds so scary, The tritone’s customary, The tension’s temporary In this augmented sixth. The German is a jazz chord, Has 3 and 5, but not 4. It moves to tonic 6/4 In this augmented sixth. The key to understanding: The 6th will be expanding, By half step will be landing, It's easy to predict. |
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