Styles
This style originated in Jamaica, was made famous by Bob Marley, and is characterized by drums/bass on beats 1 and 3 and guitar on beats 2 and 4.
What is reggae?
This is the second note in a C Major scale.
What is D?
This note is a major second above C
What is D?
Assuming 4/4 time, this is the number of beats in a ta.
This is the name of those tiny lines that occur in notes that go beyond the staff.
What is a ledger line?
This style of music originated in Cuba and is characterized by a clave rhythm and bass lines that are tied over the barlines.
What is salsa?
This is the second note in a G major scale.
What is A?
This note is a minor second above D.
What is Eb?
Assuming 4/4 time, this is the number of beats in watermelon.
What is 1?
This is the number of beats per minute if the tempo indication at the beginning of the song says ta=100.
What is 100?
This subgenre of jazz was made famous by Scott Joplin and is characterized by stride piano and straight 8th notes (as opposed to the swung 8th notes of the jazz that came later)?
What is ragtime?
This is the third note in a D major scale.
What is F#?
This note is a major third above D?
What is F#?
Assuming 4/4 time, this is the number of beats in a rest that looks like a hat.
What is 2?
This is the fastest tempo indication.
What is presto?
This style of music was made famous by James Brown and includes a rhythmically looping drum beat that creates a "hypnotic" feel, a complicated syncopated bass line with an ostinato, and free vocals above the rhythmically locked in accompaniment.
What is funk?
This is the pattern of whole steps and half steps that make up a scale.
What is WWHWWWH?
This note is a minor third above G.
What is Bb?
Assuming 4/4 time, this is the number of beats in a dotted quarter note (ta with a dot) followed by a single 8th note.
What is 2?
This is the order of flats in key signatures.
What is BEADGCF?
This style is considered the foundation of jazz and originated in New Orleans, characterized by straight 8th notes and instrumental ensembles usually including a trumpet, trombone, banjo, clarinet, and rhythm section.
What is Dixieland?
This is the second note in an A minor scale, the relative minor of C major.
What is B?
This is the interval (including the number and quality) between C and G.
What is a perfect fifth?
Assuming 4/4 time, this is the number of beats in leading to followed by ta ah dot.
What is 4?
This is the tempo indication that means fairly slow.
What is andante?