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.

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

Music Puzzles Set 5 (Years 5-6)

  • compound time
  • major keys & scales (A Bb Eb)
  • harmonic & melodic minors (A E B D G)
  • triplets, duplets, transposition
  • orchestral seating & conducting skills
  • transcription
  • Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra project
  • access to audio, answers & printables

Music Puzzles Set 6 (Year 6+)

  • more simple & compound time signatures
  • melodic minor keys & scales
  • identifying keys
  • triads & chords I IV V
  • transposition
  • musical styles
  • composition & transcription
  • access to audio, answers & printables

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