The scale found by starting on the 6th note of a major scale.
What is the relative minor?
The inversion where the 5th of the chord is in the bass.
What is 2nd inversion?
The form of a piece of music with 2 sections: A & B.
What is binary form?
The symbol above meaning force.
What is sforzando?
A small, ornamental note played quickly.
What is a grace note?
The type of minor scale that shares the same notes as its relative major.
What is natural minor?
The right hand fingers used to play a 1st inversion chord.
What is fingers 1, 2, 5?
The form of a piece with 3 equal sections: A, B, A.
What is ternary form?
The umbrella term for the different types of touch used to play an instrument. (100 bonus points if you can give 3 examples!)
What is articulation? (legato, staccato, tenuto, and accents)
A bass part in 4/4 time in which a note is played on each beat of the bar and which typically moves up and down the scale in small steps.
What is walking bass?
The type of minor scale that lowers 3 & 6, but keeps 7 raised for use of the leading tone.
What is harmonic minor?
The name and quality of this chord.
What is f# minor?
A form of music notation with a melody line and chord symbols above.
What is a lead sheet?
The type of rhythm based on triplets that creates a long short rhythm for 8th notes.
What is swing rhythm?
What is D#?
The type of scale with scale degree 3 lowered on the ascent, but changes to natural minor on the descent.
What is melodic minor?
The primary chord that is always major in both major and minor keys?
What is V?
The following chord progression used in a certain type of music: I | I | I | I | IV | IV | I | I | V | IV | I | I |
What is the 12-bar blues?
A short musical pattern that is repeated on another pitch, sequencing higher or lower.
What is motive & sequence?
The "phone number" used to name chord inversions.
What is (664) 765-4342?
The names of scale degrees 1, 5, and 7.
What is tonic, dominant, and leading tone?
The inversion of the common V7 chord.
What is first inversion?
A musical form where the A section returns within the B section.
What is rounded binary?
A musical pattern repeated over and over throughout a piece or section of a piece.
What is an ostinato?
In order, the notes included in a D#m chord in 2nd inversion.
What is A, D, F#?