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Chapter 1
Pulse and Beat
Feel the steady heartbeat underneath music and learn to keep it even.
Story-led music learning
Step inside the Music House.
Hen and Bea turn Grade 1 music ideas into a warm illustrated adventure, while clear grown-up pages keep the answers close at hand.
Explore Grade 1Open the Grade 1 companionMade for children and their grown-ups
The story introduces each idea. Parent guidance explains it plainly. Short activities turn it into something a child can hear, feel, clap, sing or play.
The Grade 1 journey
Nine musical discoveries
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Chapter 2
Note Lengths and Ties
Compare long and short sounds, then join two same-pitch notes into one longer sound.
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Chapter 3
Time Signatures and Bars
Group steady beats in twos, threes and fours.
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Chapter 4
Stave and Treble Clef
Discover the five-line stave, its spaces and the treble clef.
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Chapter 5
Note Names and Accidentals
Meet note names and the sharp, flat and natural signs.
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Chapter 6
Steps, Skips and Pitch Movement
Follow notes moving next door, jumping and repeating.
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Chapter 7
Tones and Semitones
Measure the smallest pitch steps on a keyboard.
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Chapter 8
Keys and Key Signatures
Find the musical home note and the signs that shape a key.
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Chapter 9
Intervals and Triads
Measure distances between notes and build a simple three-note chord.
For grown-ups
No previous music knowledge required
Each chapter supports the adult as well as the child: what just happened in the story, the musical idea, questions children may ask, common difficulties and a simple activity to try together.
A repeatable learning pattern
Read → explain → try → practise → celebrate.
Future books, lessons and activities can fit the same structure as Hen and Bea’s world grows.
Digital companion
Continue the lesson beyond the book
The Grade 1 digital pack includes the printable book, guided modules, practice tracking, vocabulary, achievements and access to the Notion companion.
Buy the Grade 1 digital pack