Elements of Music
Instrument Families
World Instruments
Ukulele
Miscellaneous
100
The main tune in a song.
What is melody?
100
How you produce sound on percussion instruments.
What is hit, shake, or scrape?
100
The instrument from Australia that is a wooden slat attached to a string that you spin around in the air to make sound.
What is a bull roarer?
100
The ukulele is prominent in this culture.
What is Hawaiian culture?
100
The amount of beats a half note gets in 4/4 time.
What is 2 beats?
200
How fast or how slow a piece of music is performed.
What is tempo?
200
The four instrument families.
What are woodwind, brass, string, and percussion?
200
The name of the barrel shaped drum from Japan that is usually large and played with drum sticks.
What is a taiko?
200
The order of string names.
What is GCEA?
200
The amount of beats a quarter note gets in 4/4 time.
What is 1 beat?
300
How loud or how soft a piece of music is performed.
What are dynamics?
300
How you produce sound on a brass instrument.
What is buzzing lips into the mouthpiece?
300
The name of the box shaped percussion instrument from Peru. It is made out of wood, and the performers sit on top of instrument and play it with their hands.
What is the Cajon?
300
Do this if your ukulele string sounds too high.
What is loosen the string?
300
The amount of beats an eighth note gets in 4/4 time.
What is 1/2 a beat?
400
When two or more notes are played at the same time.
What is harmony?
400
The difference between pitched percussion and unpitched percussion.
What is pitched percussion can change notes (high and low pitch sounds) and unpitched percussion can only produce one type of pitch sound (cannot change high and low pitch sounds)?
400
The type of instrument from Australia that you blow air through. It is made from a hollowed out tree branch and is usually 4-5 feet in length. It sounds drone like.
What is a digeridoo?
400
Do this if your ukulele string sounds too low.
What is tighten the string?
400
How you produce a sound on a string instrument.
What is strum, pluck, or bow?
500
The different types of notes or rests used to create music.
What is rhythm?
500
The difference between single reed and double reed woodwind instruments.
What is single reed instruments have a mouthpiece and double reed instruments do not have a mouthpiece?
500
A style of music that originates from Mexico where specific instruments, a specific singing style, and specific clothing are used.
What is Mariachi music?
500
These are examples of...
What is a chord diagram?
500
The number of known string instruments from around the world.
What is 300?