Note-Reading
Instruments
People in Music
Ukulele
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100
This 4-letter word spells out the notes in the spaces of the staff.
What is FACE?
100
String instruments produce sound when these vibrate.
What are strings?
100
This trumpet player played in high school and college bands before becoming a music teacher.
Who is Mr. Patterson?
100
The ukulele typically has this many strings.
What is 4?
100
Xylophones use this type of beater.
What are mallets?
200
The top line and the bottom space of the staff are for this note.
What is F?
200
This instrument family is played by buzzing into their cup-shaped mouthpieces.
What are brass instruments?
200
Jake Shimabukaro's instrument of choice is this.
What is the ukulele?
200
While strumming is playing more than one string at once, playing a single string on the ukulele is called this.
What is plucking?
200
The musical alphabet is made up of this many letters.
What is 7?
300
The middle line of the staff is for this note.
What is B?
300
This instrument family is played by striking or rubbing a part of the instrument with a beater.
What is percussion?
300
Adolphe Sax is the inventor of a number of wind instruments, most notably these, which he named after himself.
What are saxophones?
300
Strumming a ukulele while holding down the 3rd fret of the 1st string would play this chord.
What is C?
300
Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang is an early example of this style of music.
What is hip-hop / rap?
400
This note:
What is A?
400
A woodwind quintet typically is made up of a flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and one of these brass instruments.
What is a French Horn?
400
Singers like Etta James and Louis Jordan played key roles in R&B music, standing for Rhythm and this.
What is Blues?
400
These are the correct fingers to play an F major chord.
What are 1 and 2 / pointer and middle?
400
This is not only the largest woodwind instrument, but the largest commonly used instrument in the world.
What is the pipe organ?
500
This note, found below the staff in treble clef, makes the middle of a piano.
What is C / Middle C?
500
While clarinets and saxophones only have one of these, the oboe and bassoon use two to produce sound.
What is a reed?
500
This Catholic monk is one of the first known music teachers, and is credited as inventing the music staff and solfege systems.
Who is Guido de Arezzo?
500
These are the small metal bars on top of the neck of the ukulele.
What are frets?
500
This note is represented by the letter H in Germany, and can be found on some instruments made there.
What is B?