Welcome to Music Theory Shop
For those that live and breathe music.
New in the shop - express your inner 🎤 musician.
Hello, Musicians! 😍
Music Theory Shop offers accessible music education and products for all musicians and music scholars. A life in music is so beautifully fulfilling and needed in the world. There is so much opportunity and ROOM for everybody to have immense success in music. Songwriting, composing, performing, writing, critiquing, directing, teaching...all music careers begin with music training.
My name is Malia and I'm a music theorist, pianist, composer, designer, and university lecturer in music theory and piano. My life's purpose is to help my students become the absolute BEST musicians they can possibly be. My students have made incredible transformations and I want the same for you!
I empower musicians with MAD SKILLS.
Music Theory Staff Paper™
Music Theory Staff Paper is published by Hal Leonard, the leading publisher of sheet music in the world! It's now back in stock at Music Theory Shop!!
Music Theory Staff Paper is also available at these online retailers: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Target, Walmart, Sheet Music Plus, & Hal Leonard. Colleges & Universities can purchase through Hal Leonard or Follett Discover.
Want to see Music Theory Staff Paper at your local music store or independent bookstore? Just ask them to carry it and let me know so I can send you a personal thank you!
Origins of Music Theory Staff Paper
I designed "Music Theory Staff Paper," a hybrid music manuscript notebook, for my theory students. Often I would look up during my lectures to see students just staring at the walls. Staring at me. Staring at their phones. Eyes glazed over. You get it, disengaged..(are these like your students? Or is this YOU in music theory class?!! lol) On the flip side, some of my students would try SO hard to keep up and have multiple notebooks on their desks, lined paper, staff paper..take 10 minutes to write out a piano-keyboard and Circle of 5ths...not to mention when it came time to study for the exam they had to search for all of their notes in multiple places.
Sometimes that little bit of resistance makes the effort to learn music harder than it really should be.
Now my students have the most unique tool to stimulate learning. They are no longer frantic trying to find information and I'm amazed at how their music notation has progressed.
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Music Theory Shop Academy
Learn moreMusic Theory Shop Academy's mini course: "Master the Circle of 5ths to Read Music Faster"
YES, it is totally possible to read music like a book, cut down learning time, memorize faster, and be more musically creative!
It all starts with the Circle of 5ths.
Develop fluency in ALL 30 major-minor keys. MUSICIANS!~you already KNOW how important this is. Go through the course on your own time, at your own pace, and in the comfort of your own home.
Enrollment is open and FREE for a limited time.
How to Speak Music Membership
It's like your gym membership but for music! How will it feel to start reading and playing music with ease? Do you want to be able to read sheet music like you read books? Bite-size lessons in music taken with consistency and motivation will deepen your musical artistry, give you tons of strategy for music creation, increase your music studio income by offering theory, and/or give you lots of support during or after your AP or college music courses.
"How to Speak Music Membership" is the easiest point of entry to start learning real music theory, how music works, training that goes beyond the rudiments. Like anything you want to improve, you need coaching and training!
This is not your traditional music theory class. If you've ever had a negative experience or struggled with learning theory, THIS IS FOR YOU. Come study with me. ~Malia
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Is "How to Speak Music Membership" Right For Me?
◻️ Do you struggle with sight reading?
◻️ Does it take you FOREVER to learn a piece of music?
◻️ Do you "guess" or do everything "by ear" when you create music?
◻️ Are you a music student but you still have trouble with some of the fundamentals?
◻️ Do you need more support in your AP Music Theory courses or college music theory courses?
◻️ Are you tired of stringing together random YouTube videos as your musical training and want access to a music theorist?
◻️ Are you a music major and want more to do over your breaks?
◻️ Do you have holes in your music background?
◻️ Do you want to be a music major in college and want to get a head start?
◻️ Are you a music teacher that wants to add a music theory curriculum to bring more income into your music studio business?
◻️ Are you a musician who loves music, plays an instrument, but doesn't understand the connection of how music theory helps you become a better player?
◻️ Do you want to start writing music?
◻️ Do you make beats but want to get deeper into melody and harmony so you can do more as a producer?
◻️ Do you HATE practicing and want to change how you feel about it so you can grow as a musician?
◻️ Have you had a negative experience with music theory in the past?
◻️ Do you want to learn theory but don't have time or the resources to enroll in music school?
◻️ Do you want to learn theory without the pressure of being in a class, learn at your own pace from the comfort of your own home?
If you answered YES to more than one of the above questions, and you are COACHABLE and ready, then Membership is the RIGHT step for you.
Click here to learn more about Music Theory Shop Academy's "How to Speak Music" membership.
Music Theory Shop Academy
Study music with positivity, enthusiasm, encouragement. "How to Speak Music Membership" -- for ambitious, artistic, and visionary musicians.
Feel confident in the practice room, your recording studio, rehearsals, music school, and in everyday conversations with other musicians. Open up your world artistically, level up your skills and deepen your practice, or take a refresher and get back into music.