Music Musings
Free Music Fact Sheets
Live out your piano dreams with fun, interactive fact sheets that teach you three different ways to learn to play music, and lots of ways to start playing melodies, chords, cool bass lines and even improvising with blues scales.
It’s easier than you think! Enjoy! –Suz
- Music Musings 1 — What is Music?
- Discover 3 ways people learn music, and which one can get you started playing
right away! - Music Musings 2 — Making Melodies
- Learn how to play the melodies of oodles of popular songs with just 7 simple
notes! - Music Musings 3 — Making Chords
- Play songs right away using 3 simple chords that are in almost every song.
Learn how these 3 chords are made out of the same 7 notes melodies are made of. - Music Musings 4 — Playing by Ear
- Learn how to figure out which 3 chords to play in over 35 songs.
- Music Musings 5 — 1950s Chords
- Play lots of doo-wop and crooner songs of the 1950s with just 4 simple chords!
- Music Musings 6 — Playing with All 7 Chords!
- What chords do “Over the Rainbow”, “Gillian Island”, “Y.M.C.A” and “Danny
Boy” have in common? This fact sheet shows you! - Music Musings 7 — Chords & Scales
- Learn what kind of chords every scale and key have in common, which is the
basis for transposing songs to different keys. - Music Musings 8 — How to Read Chords
- Make chords from the simple “C” to CmMaj7, and learn one simple way to switch
from a major chord to a minor one. - Music Musings 9 — Cool Bass Lines
- This is where you really start playing with the feel of a song! With these
Boom-chuck, Cowboy & Boogie bass lines, you’ll be sounding cool (and having fun)
in no time! - Music Musings 10 — Blues Scales
- The secret to improvising jazz, blues, and even heavy rock. Does “Smoke on
the Water” really use blues scales? - Music Musings 11 — 8 and 12-Bar Blues
- Use 3 simple chords and 3 cool blues scales to practice playing 8 and 12-bar
blues!
These factsheets are free to download, view and share for personal or educational use. However, they are copyrighted and may not be reproduced and sold for profit without permission of the author. For more information, contact Suz.
Need Help?
All fact sheets are Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf). Download the plugin to view and print the pages. Save the files to your hard drive before attempting to open them: Right-click (windows) or Control-click (Macintosh).
Contact Suz if you’d like to purchase the set in multiple copies.
Please write to let me know how these Musings work for you. I appreciate your feedback. — Suz