On this page you can find the grade 2 syllabus information, and links to the free and paid ABRSM Grade 2 Music Theory lessons/courses available on this site.
You will find a large number of free lessons on this website, or get the full ABRSM Grade 2 Music Theory course in your preferred format:
ABRSM Grade 2 Music Theory Lessons
- Ledger Lines
- Bass/Treble Clef Transposition
- Major Scales – ABRSM Grade 2
- Minor Scales Introduction
- Degrees of the Scale
- Key Signatures and Major Keys (ABRSM Grade 2)
- Key Signatures and Minor Keys
- Questions on Scales (ABRSM Grade 2)
- Time Signatures Grade 2
- Adding Bar Lines
- Working out the Time Signature
- Rewriting in a New Time Signature
- Adding Rests
- Tonic Triads – Major and Minor
- Intervals (ABRSM Grade 2)
- Triplets
- Musical Terms Grade 2 (ABRSM)
- Grade 2 Music Theory Test (ABRSM)
ABRSM Grade 2 Music Theory Video Course
- Video lessons covering the complete ABRSM grade 2 syllabus
- PDF download including full explanations, exercises, practice test and answers
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- No expiry date on the course
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ABRSM Syllabus (Grade 2)
Grade 2 As in Grade 1, with the addition of:
- Simple time signatures of and the grouping of notes and rests within these times. Triplets, and triplet note groups with rests.
- Extension of the stave to include two ledger lines below and above each stave.
- Relative major and minor keys. Construction of the minor scale (harmonic only). Scales and key signatures of the major keys of B b and E b, and the minor keys of A, E and D, with their tonic triads (root position), degrees (number only), and intervals above the tonic (by number only).
- More terms and signs in common use.
Read the ABRSM music theory syllabus here.