Rhythm
This rhythm has a filled in note head and a stem with no flags, and typically lasts for just one beat.
What is a quarter note?
The first (bottom) line of the staff.
What is E?
The first space on the staff.
What is A?
A most famous instrument, played by pushing down white or black keys with one's fingers.
What is the piano?
The vibrations through the air that reach your eardrum.
What are sounds?
This rhythm has two filled in note heads and stems that have one bar connecting them. They total one beat together.
What is two eighth notes?
The third space of the staff.
What is C?
The third line on the staff.
What is D?
The highest-sounding instrument in the string family.
What is the violin?
This form of dance became popular in the Classical period (1750-1820 AD), and involves dancers spinning, leaping, and moving on the tips of their toes.
What is ballet?
This rhythm looks like a hat on top of the third line of the staff, and the silence it indicates lasts for two beats.
What is a half rest?
The top line of the staff.
What is F?
The fourth space on the staff.
What is G?
A medium-low sounding brass instrument, played by moving a slide.
What is the trombone?
The special term for a song that gets stuck in your head.
What is an earworm?
What is 3 (half notes)?
The space just below the staff.
What is D?
The first space right above the staff.
What is B?
A double-reed instrument very similar to the clarinet, but with a brighter sound and rounded bell.
What is the oboe?
Trumpets, trombones, tubas, and most saxophones are made up of this metal made up of copper and zinc.
What is brass?
This many eighth notes equals 5 beats.
What is 10?
The ledger (not a part of the staff but extra above or below) line right above the staff.
What is A?
The first ledger (not a part of the staff, but extra above or below) line above the staff.
What is (middle) C?
Another name for the instrument that is made of wooden bars and metal tubes below them, is arranged similarly to the piano, and is commonly called a xylophone.
What is the marimba?
This material is what the stringy part of the *bow* of a violin, cello, or upright bass is made of.
What is horse hair?