Just the Facts is a unique, student-friendly series of piano music theory workbooks that makes learning engaging, effective, and fun. Featuring discovery-based learning, structured lessons, ear training, musical games, and real-music analysis, these workbooks help students build a strong foundation in music theory while preparing for the Texas State music theory test.
The Just the Facts for Strings music theory workbooks use a discovery-based, spiral learning approach to help students build understanding step by step while reinforcing previously learned concepts. Designed for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and guitar students, these engaging, student-friendly workbooks are ideal for private lessons, beginning orchestra students, homeschool music education, and adults who want to understand the theory behind the music they play. By connecting music theory to practical musicianship, the series helps students develop a stronger foundation in music reading and understanding.
A fun introduction to piano music theory for beginning students! Features large music staffs for little hands, engaging alphabet activities, and easy-to-follow exercises that introduce note names on the staff.
Build essential piano music theory skills with fun, engaging worksheets! Students explore note and rest values, the grand staff, note direction, 4/4 time, steps and skips, drawing stems and bar lines, and much more.
Packed with engaging piano theory worksheets, this workbook builds on the material in Books K and 1, making it ideal for continuing students or as an entry-level introduction. Topics include intervals of 2nds and 3rds, 3/4 time, sharps, flats, forte, piano, and much more. Best of all, every lesson ends with a FUN GAME!
Packed with engaging piano theory worksheets, this workbook continues the concepts introduced in Book 2 or serves as an entry-level book for students of all ages, including adults. Topics include half and whole steps, the major scale pattern, natural signs, ties, slurs, intervals from 2nds through 5ths, and key signatures and scales in C, G, and F Major.
Explore essential piano theory concepts with engaging worksheets covering half and whole steps, Italian musical terms, note and rest values (eighth notes and beyond), and key signatures and scales in D, A, and E Major. Students also practice drawing treble and bass clefs and applying note-value rules. Keep an eye out for Inspector Dexter, the Interval Detective, featured in every book!
Expand piano music theory skills with engaging worksheets covering sixteenth notes and rests, ledger lines, enharmonic notes, intervals through the octave, tonic triads, and the I–IV–V chord progression. Students also practice identifying major keys and learning scales and key signatures with up to four sharps or flats.
Strengthen piano music theory and musicianship skills with engaging worksheets and activities that develop musical understanding and critical thinking. Topics include the order of sharps and flats, primary triads, augmented 2nds, 6/8 time, major and minor 3rds, all major keys and scales, and the Circle of Fifths. Includes ear training, musical analysis, and a fun game in every lesson!
Advance piano music theory skills with engaging worksheets covering major and perfect intervals, double sharps and flats, natural minor scales, relative major and minor keys, and 3/8, 9/8, and 12/8 time signatures. Students also explore meter terminology and the minor Circle of Fifths, with ongoing review activities that reinforce concepts through new applications.
Build advanced piano music theory skills with engaging worksheets and activities like “Sound Alikes,” “Cross Out,” and “Scale Trails” that challenge students’ reasoning while keeping learning fun. Explore diminished triads, the three forms of the minor scale, transposition, melody writing, and more. Designed to align with the Texas State music theory curriculum.
Expand piano music theory knowledge with comprehensive worksheets covering parallel major and minor keys, four-part SATB harmony, authentic and half cadences, and minor, diminished, and augmented intervals. Students also explore chromatic and whole-tone scales, augmented triads, common tones and leading tones in cadences, figured bass, and melodic and harmonic intervals.