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Jessica Lyn Sosnoski UMTC Elite Educator Success Story

Jessica Lyn Sosnoski UMTC Elite Educator Success Story Interview with Glory St. ...

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Anna Melika UMTC Elite Educator Success Story

Anna Melika UMTC Elite Educator Success Story Interview with Glory St. Germain. ...

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Cheryl Florin UMTC Elite Educator Success Story

Cheryl Florin UMTC Elite Educator Success Story Interview with Glory St. Germain...

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Etelka Nyilasi UMTC Elite Educator Success Story

Etelka Nyilasi UMTC Elite Educator Success Story Interview with Glory St. Germai...

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Lynette Zelis UMTC Elite Educator Success Story

Lynette Zelis UMTC Elite Educator Success Story Interview with Glory St. Germain...

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Autumn Laemmrich UMTC Elite Educator Success Story

Autumn Laemmrich UMTC Elite Educator Success Story Interview with Glory St. Germ...

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Julie Ramsey UMTC Elite Educator Success Story

Julie Ramsey UMTC Elite Educator Success Story Interview with Glory St. Germain....

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Bonnie Synhorst UMTC Elite Educator Success Story

Bonnie Synhorst UMTC Elite Educator Success Story Interview with Glory St. Germa...

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Athaliah White UMTC Elite Educator Success Story

Athaliah White UMTC Elite Educator Success Story Interview with Glory St. Germai...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 12

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 12. Learn & explore tips, tricks & g...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 11

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 11. Learn & explore tips, tricks and...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 10

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 10. Learn & explore tips, tricks and...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 9

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 9. Learn & explore tips, tricks and ...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 8

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 8. Learn & explore tips, tricks and ...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 7

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 7. Learn & explore tips, tricks and ...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 6

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 6. Learn & explore tips, tricks and ...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 5

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 5. Learn & explore how to teach Land...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 4

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 4. Learn & explore tips, tricks and ...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 3

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 3. Learn & explore tips, tricks and ...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 2

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 2. Learn and explore tips, tricks an...

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How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 1

How to Teach Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 1. Learn and explore tips, tricks an...

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Music Theory Prep 1 Rudiments

Ultimate Music Theory Prep 1 Rudiments Workbook and App program is a proven step...

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Music Theory for Kids Beginner C

Ultimate Music Theory for Kids Beginner C Workbook and App program is a proven s...

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Music Theory for Kids Beginner B

Ultimate Music Theory for Kids Beginner B Workbook and App program is a proven s...

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Music Theory for Kids Beginner A

Ultimate Music Theory for Kids Beginner A Workbook and App program is a proven s...

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The Power Of Why 29 Musicians

International Best Seller - The Power Of Why 29 Musicians Climbed To Superstar -...

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The Power Of Why 27 Musicians

International Best Seller - The Power Of Why 27 Musicians Captured The Lead - Me...

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Teaching Tips – Theory Learning Circle

Ready to maximize your Student's musical learning? If so, use the Theory Learnin...

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Level 8 Music Theory Exam

Struggling to Teach (or write) Contrasting Melodies for the Level 8 Music Theory...

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Level 7 Music Theory Exam

The new Level 7 Music Theory Exam covers new Theory, History & Harmony Requireme...

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Level 6 Music Theory Exam

Level 6 Music Theory Exam preparation can feel a bit daunting. There are so many...

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Level 5 Music Theory Exam

Preparing students for the Level 5 Music Theory Exam is EASY when you use Ultima...

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Success Story – Perfect Level 6 Theory Exam

Is it possible to earn 100% on the Level 6 Theory Exam? Yes it is! Whether the e...

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Accidental Rules #3 – Writing Accidentals

Let's Make Writing Accidentals Easy using the KISS Method! Learn the proper way ...

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Breve Note and Breve Rest

What does Breve mean? How do you write a Breve Note? How do you write a Breve Re...

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Got Music? Learn Music Faster with Theory Club Class Online!

Want to Learn Music Faster? Join Music Theory Club Class with Ultimate Music The...

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Music Theory Club Classes

Ultimate Music Theory Club Classes - Want to Learn Music Theory Fast & Have Fun?...

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Intervals – Size Symbol

Learn how the Ultimate Music Theory Model Mnemonic (visual aid) supports changin...

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Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are. Yes, we talk with our mouth, but we also ...

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Quickest Way to Achieve Results in Your Goal Setting

What’s The Quickest Way To Achieve Results When We Set A Goal? Setting Goals A...

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Stop and Smell The Roses – What Does That Mean?

Feeling overwhelmed and at the end of your rope? Do you take a moment to - "Stop...

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The Secret to Getting Ahead is Getting Started

What’s one important goal you just never seem to get to? What’s the secret t...

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Motivation to Achieve Your Goals – Goal Setter

Are you a goalsetter? Think about a goal that you really want. What happens when...

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Mind Body Space Well-being

What Does Mind, Body & Space Mean To You? How do you feel about your wellness? W...

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Clipped Corner Theory Challenge

Are you ready to motivate your Students to complete even MORE theory? This Clipp...

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Student Composers

Did you know that Ultimate Music Theory has the tools you need to teach your Stu...

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Theory Group Drop In

A Theory Group Drop In is an Easy Way to reschedule Students or to have an Extra...

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Mindful Focusing Challenge

4 Steps to create a Mindful Focusing Challenge that will encourage your Theory a...

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Productivity Planner – Productivity Technique

Learn WHY a Productivity Planner - Productivity Technique, can help you set dail...

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Organization – Productivity Technique

A Productivity Technique is the action of organizing something with a single pur...

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Pomodoro Technique – Productivity Technique

Want to avoid time thieves that prevent productivity in both your personal and p...

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Seated Twist Yoga Tip 4 For Musicians

Seated Twist Yoga Tip 4. Created By Musicians. Excellent Way To Stretch & Streng...

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Shoulder Pain Relief Yoga Tip 3 For Musicians

Shoulder Pain Relief Yoga Tip 3. Created By Musicians. Excellent Way To Stretch ...

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Side Stretch Yoga Tip 2 For Musicians

Side Stretch Yoga Tip 2 For Musicians. Created By Musicians. Excellent Way To St...

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Which Music Theory Book To Use

Confused about which Music Theory Workbooks to use with your Students (& Transfe...

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Summer Theory Challenge

Summer is the perfect time to offer a Summer Theory Challenge. Explore 3 ideas o...

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Sore Wrists Relief Yoga Tip 1 For Musicians

Sore Wrists Relief Yoga Tip 1 For Musicians. Created By Musicians. Excellent Way...

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Summer Theory Group

Ever wanted to offer Theory during the summer but didn't know how? Want to make ...

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So-La and Ti-Do

Have you ever wondered HOW to inspire, motivate and challenge your Students? It'...

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Happy Birthday

December 1st is Ultimate Music Theory's Birthday! Here's my journey with Founder...

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Upper or Lower Case Letter

Do we use an Upper or Lower Case Letter? It is a Capital "C" or a small "c"? Doe...

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Music Theory Beginner A – Lesson 1

In the Music Theory Beginner A Lesson 1 Blog, I will share ideas from my own tea...

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Placement of Accidentals #2 – Triad Accidentals

Did you know that there are Placement Rules for Triad Accidentals? When a Triad ...

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Placement of Accidentals #1 – Harmonic Interval Accidentals

Harmonic Interval Accidentals have specific Placement Rules.In the Placement of ...

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Counting Slurs

Theory Exercises often ask Students to count the number of slurs in an excerpt. ...

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Repeat Sign Dots

Repeat Sign Dots can be confusing. Are there rules for the placement of Repeat S...

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Volta Brackets

Volta Brackets, or "first and second ending brackets", are used to indicated spe...

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Analysis Square Bracket

The Analysis Square Bracket is an analytical tool used to define a part or phras...

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From Learning Disabilities to Success

Share Teacher Kandice Kreutner Ilgner's experience of how the UMT Workbooks help...

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Writing Time Signatures

When writing Time Signatures, it is important to not write Fractions!  Discover...

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Music Note Stem Length

When adding a stem to a notehead, the stem is usually approximately one octave i...

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C Clef #3 – Draw C Clef Signs

The C Clef Sign is a symbol to Landmark Middle C in 5 different locations on 5 d...

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6 Tips for Two Part Writing

Two Part Writing is when two voices (parts, instruments) are written on 1 staff....

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Ledger Line Rules – Confused?

Confused about Ledger Lines? Did you know that there are Ledger Line Rules to he...

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Goal Setting – to be the Youngest UMTC Teacher

Goal Setting is the greatest motivation for achievement! Meet Pauline Miller and...

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Quadruple or Duple – What is the Time Signature?

How can you tell whether the Time Signature is 4/4 or 2/2 Time? Is there a diffe...

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Cadence Bass Notes

Cadence Bass Notes - What are the Rules? Do the Bass Notes ascend or descend? Wh...

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Simple Time Rests Blog 3 – Breakdown

Dotted Rests are not used in Simple Time. To understand why, we need to understa...

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Simple Time Rests Blog 2 – No Dotted Rests

In Blog 2 of the Simple Time Rests Series, discover why there are no dotted rest...

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Simple Time Rests Blog 1 – Basic Beat

Simple Time Rests Blog 1 - Basic Beat. When we understand the Basic Beat and Pul...

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Articulation Activity – Story Telling Through Music

Use this Articulation Activity to show students how to see, hear, feel & play Ar...

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Kathy Crenshaw UMTC in 7 weeks!

Learn how Kathy Crenshaw went from a Texas music teacher's workshop to massive s...

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Can I Use Ultimate Music Theory?

Theory is Theory, no matter where you live! You CAN use Ultimate Music Theory to...

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Pentascale or Pentatonic Scale?

Pentascale or Pentatonic Scale - both contain the word Penta (5) and Scale (degr...

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No Diminished First

Ever wonder why there is no Diminished First? Learn why the smallest interval is...

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Summer Theory Lessons

Don't have the time or energy to run a Summer Theory Camp? Why not try Summer Th...

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Common Advanced Exam Mistakes

Learn how to avoid Five Common Advanced Exam Mistakes when writing Nationally Re...

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Why Show Your Work

Explore 3 reasons why it is important to teach our students to Show Your Work wh...

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Motivation Ideas to Complete Homework!

Do you find that motivating Boys to complete theory homework is different from m...

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Rhythm Sticks – Improve Counting

Use Rhythm Sticks to bring life to counting! Pick up some Chinese Food, a Tub of...

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Descending Musical Alphabet

Learning the Musical Alphabet is important for reading music and naming interval...

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Music Theory Course Success

Looking for the best Music Theory Course Success that will get you First Class H...

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Music Theory Choral Class

Music Theory Choral Class - Private, Classroom & Choral Teachers alike are "Sing...

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Complete Theory Homework – 3 Tips

Discover 3 Tips for teaching your Students How to Complete Theory Homework on ti...

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Feet Placement for Concentration

Studies show that your brain focuses and processes information better, stronger ...

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Faber and Faber Piano – Master Class

The Future of Teaching Music - Faber and Faber Piano Master Class with Glory and...

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Music Theory Camp

Guest blogger Kandice Kreutner Ilgner shares how she turned the Summer Lesson dr...

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UMT Testimonial

Hannah Brackenbury shares her UMT Testimonial on how she discovered Ultimate Mus...

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Music Italian Terms

In the Ultimate Music Theory Certification Course, teachers have fun with the Mu...

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Flashcards and Flyswatters

Nothing perks up a lesson faster than bringing out the Flyswatters and the Flash...

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Circle How You Feel

How do you know how others feel? Use "Circle How You Feel" to help students iden...

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Improvising with Triads

Inspiring students to Improvise is as easy as opening your UMT Basic Rudiments T...

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Goals of a Theory Teacher

As Teachers, setting goals for our students is an important part of lesson prepa...

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Sharp or Flat Ear Training Game

Using the Basic Theory Game Pack to teach students to identify direction and pit...

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Gratitude List – 5 Reasons Why

Glory St. Germain shares her gratitude list and the 5 reasons why. A gratitude l...

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Completing Homework – 4 Secrets

Completing Homework can be a struggle for students and can leave a teacher feeli...

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Why Pay More? You Get More!

Why pay more for Ultimate Music Theory? Simple - You Get More! This Blog is for ...

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UMT-ALS Theory Challenge

Want to inspire students to do theory and raise money for a special cause? Learn...

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Basic Theory Game Pack

The Basic Theory Game Pack features 6 games that can be played 6 ways = 36 games...

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Slap That Rhythm

Slap That Rhythm Game - Use the Free Flashcards in each workbook to provide stud...

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How Do You Improve Concentration?

How do you improve Concentration? Learn how to take two minutes to improve your ...

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Theory Classes – Over Already?

Theory Classes are so awesome with Joanne Barker's Ultimate Music Theory Games. ...

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Theory Class – Fun to Success

Ultimate Music Theory Class - Dianne Potts shares her Theory Class success of co...

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Brain Injury Student – Plays Piano and iPad

Watch Brain Injury student Connor Derraugh playing piano and playing an iPad Gam...

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Broken Triads – Ascending or Descending?

Broken Triads - Ascending or Descending? Enhance your pitch comprehension betwee...

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Music App – 5 Ideas to Use in a Lesson

The UMT Music App is the only Music App with a matching Basic Rudiments Music Th...

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Piano Music App iPad – Panic to Playing

Piano Music App iPad Lesson. Learn how the Ultimate Music Theory Basic Rudiments...

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Brainscape – Learn Faster Using Brain Science

Brainscape is happy to be working with Ultimate Music Theory to make the music t...

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Prevent Piano Teacher Injury – 3 Healthy Tips

Prevent Piano Teacher Injury before it's too late! Who knew teaching music could...

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Cleaning Whiteboards – 4 Easy Tips

Cleaning Whiteboards is easy with these 4 tips. Ultimate Music Theory Whiteboard...

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Preparatory Rudiments Exam – Kid’s Perspective

The only series with Preparatory Rudiments Exam & Answer Books. Prepare for Roya...

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Music Olympics – Let the Games Begin

Music Olympics - Let the Games Begin Winning the Gold in the Music Olympics requ...

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Olympics Challenge – Have You Qualified Yet?

How do you compete in the Olympics Challenge? In order to get started - download...

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Olympic Music or Olympics without Music

Olympic Music - What does it take for a musician to create Olympic Music and bec...

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Dominant 7th Chord Inversions

Is writing V7 Chord Inversions confusing? Watch this Free Video - 3 Tips to Guar...

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Best Music Theory App – 5 Reasons to Use It!

Best Music Theory App – The ONLY App with Matching Ultimate Music Theory Workb...

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Music Flashcards – Need a Flyswatter?

Music Flashcards are fun, especially using a Flyswatter! Learn how. And check ou...

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