• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
MusePrep
  • About MusePrep
  • Articles
    • Composer Spotlights
    • Music Education Insights
    • Practice Routines
    • Tech Tools for Musicians
    • Tips for Beginners
  • Learn
    • Ear Training
    • Reading Music
    • Scales & Chords
  • Resources
    • Glossary of Music Terms
    • Free Downloads
  • Legal & Policies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Cookie Policy (EU)
    • Legal Notice
    • Affiliate Disclosure

Your Music Theory companion

Find clear, encouraging guides and weekly tips to make music theory easy — from reading music to complex harmony.

Start Learning

green polished diamond

Perfect Intervals Explained: A Complete Guide for Musicians

Learn perfect intervals explained in clear, simple steps. This complete guide covers unison, fourths, fifths, and octaves, with examples, theory tips, and practice strategies to strengthen your ear and improve your musicianship.

Latest Music Theory Lessons

Illustration of ice cream cones on a purple background with music notes. Text: "Reading Music #20, Seventh Chords." Logo in the corner. Playful tone.

Understanding Seventh Chords Formula: A Simple Guide for Harmony

Learn the understanding seventh chords formula in a clear, simple way. This guide explains each chord type, its interval structure, and how to apply the formulas in any key for better harmony and songwriting.

snowman sitting in a bed of snow

Chord Construction Steps: How to Build Chords Using the Snowman Method

Learn the essential chord construction steps with a simple snowman visual. Discover how stacking lower, middle, and upper thirds helps you build clear major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads. Perfect for beginners in music theory.

Understanding Chord Structure: A Simple Visual Trick for Beginners

Learning chords can feel abstract at first. Notes stack on top of each other, intervals matter, and suddenly you are told you need to “hear” thirds. For beginners, this is a lot. A simple image helps: think of chords as little snowmen.

laptop sitting on sheet music

Why Music Theory Lessons Online Are the Best Way to Learn in 2025.

Learn music theory online with flexible, expert-led lessons. Master scales, harmony, rhythm, and analysis at your own pace with structured courses and practical exercises.

Primary Sidebar

So glad you’re here!

Sheet music with octaves and scales.

About MusePrep

Our Mission:
Daily motivation and exercises to support your music theory journey.
Read more about us →

Looking for something?

Explore Topics

Quick Practice

What comes after G in treble clef?
It's A – the note on the second space from the top!

Copyright © 2025 MusePrep on the Foodie Pro Theme

Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}