Units at this level cover all the basic building blocks of written music are explained under basic concept headings of pitch, rhythm, terms and signs and writing techniques.

The stave and clefs, Note names on each stave, ledger lines, sharps, flats, accidentals, semitones and tones, first major scales and their degree numbers, intervals, triads, arpeggios.

Early rhythm conponents cover bars, note types, rests, time signatures, and basic rhythmic composition.

Terms and signs used include Italian terms for volume (dynamics), speed (tempo), style (articulation).

Written music techniques include the elements of music notation - written clefs, time signature, note spacing, writing stems and beams, and grouping of quavers and semiquavers.