The Chelsea Quavers Music Puzzles Series

Beautifully illustrated A4 workbooks, or download & print-on-demand, audio tracks to support every exercise & instrument sounds & answers to exercises.

Our books are available for ordering by private individuals.
For schools, please contact us to let us know your requirements.
The syllabus covers material for complete beginners to the equivalent of ABRSM Grade 2 Theory and prepares pupils to sit the ABRSM Music Theory exams 1 and 2.

Music Puzzles Set 1 (Years 1-2)

  • note & rest values (crotchet, minim, dotted minim, semibreve)
  • time signatures (simple duple, triple, quadruple)
  • percussion instruments & timbres
  • rhythmic performance
  • composition
  • musical maths
  • flash cards
  • access to audio, answers & printables

Music Puzzles Set 2 (Years 2-3)

  • note & rest values (quaver)
  • beaming, the stave, treble clef notation
  • stem directions & intervals
  • piano keyboard, string instruments
  • rhythmic performance
  • composition
  • musical maths
  • note & rest pyramids
  • access to audio, answers & printables

Music Puzzles Set 3 (Years 3-4)

  • note & rest values (semiquavers)
  • grouping & beaming
  • ‘spot that rhythm!’
  • ties, bass clef, ledger lines
  • sight singing, performance directions
  • echo singing & aural training
  • woodwind instruments, performance (solo & duet)
  • access to audio, answers & printables

Music Puzzles Set 4 (Years 4-5)

  • dotted note & rest values
  • tones & semitones
  • major keys & scales (C G D F Bb)
  • tonic triads
  • brass instruments
  • aural & sight singing
  • Carnival of the Animals project
  • musical analysis.
  • access to audio, answers & printables

Online access to audio tracks, answers to all exercises & printable worksheets