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📚 AP Music Theory Content Resources

• Watch our 5-Hour Cram Finale the night before your test!
• Review our Study Guides!
• Review our Cram Sheet!
• Join our Pomodoro Study Room to connect with other students!
• Visit this site for practice exams/questions with audio files!
• Visit this hub for a whole host of resources, including slideshows and recordings for different units!
• Check out musictheory.net and teoria to practice your aural skills!
• Browse this open-source textbook for a refresher on topics you struggle with!
• Watch the Collegeboard’s series of lectures on music theory!
• Or, if you prefer bite-sized, try this series of 2-minute music theory videos!
• Practice with past FRQs!
• Use this Quizlet to brush up on vocab and prepare for the MCQ section!
• Visit Toby Rush’s website for funny, but informative and easy to digest, music theory posters!

<aside> 📺 Marco Learning's YouTube channel has hundreds of free videos for AP students that focus on each unit and section of AP Exams.

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💡Studying Tips & Tricks

• You cannot cram. Many of you are musicians, so you know that you can’t cram your practice. And the Music Theory exam comes down to just that—practice. Practice your aural skills diligently, and you’ll crush this exam! 💯
• Study together! Studying with friends that keep you accountable can be a game changer. It can be difficult to tell yourself that you need to block out two hours tonight for reading your textbook. You and your friends can create a Fiveable Study Room where you can all study together! 🤝
• Take breaks! If you practice for too long (especially aural skills 👂), you will be very frustrated and everything will sound like atonal soup 🍜 Make sure to take plenty of breaks. Grab a glass of water and come back to it in five minutes! 🚰
• Write something on your FRQs! Having something written down by the last listening on your FRQs allows you to check for errors during that time. It also helps if you can fill in the beginning and ending as soon as possible! ⚠️

💻 Places to Study

• Study best with friends and enjoy meeting others? Check out Fiveable’s Pomodoro Study Room. Students come together to study any and all subjects while following the Pomodoro studying method.
• Study best alone? Create your own Fiveable Study Room to study by yourself or join one of Fiveable’s Discover Rooms and turn on Focus Mode when needing to block out distractions, such as the chat.
• Study best with others who are in the same course? Check out Fiveable’s Discover Rooms. Some of the rooms are subject-specific and others are broader. Use the search bar and see if there are any study rooms made for the AP course(s) you are studying.

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Studying for AP exams can take a lot of time! When it comes closer to test day and you increase your studying time you have to make sure you are eating and drinking enough. It is incredibly hard to stay motivated and study effectively when you are dehydrated and/or malnourished.

<aside> 💧 This is why we made a water tracker! Download the PDF, print it out, and color a droplet anytime you finish a glass or bottle of water.

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<aside> 🧩 Love Wordle, and wish there was a music theory version? Try Melodle, an ear-training Wordle.

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<aside> 🎵 Need a laugh? Check out some practice frustration videos.

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<aside> 🧘 Need to get the blood flowing and fix your posture? Take a five minute stretch break.

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Looking to take a break? Go for a short walk, color, eat a snack, or work on a puzzle. There are so many things that you can do that involve not picking up your phone! While taking a break, avoid electronic devices such as your phone.

Not sure what to do during a break? Check out this blog for some inspiration.

😂 Don’t forget to appreciate all the AP Music Theory memes!

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