Rhythms
Road Map
Notation
Basic Staff
Articulation
100

This note gets 1 beat in 4/4 time.

What is a quarter note?  

100

This tells you to repeat a section within the music.

What is an internal repeat?

100

Every Good Boy Does Fine helps remember these.

What are the lines of the treble clef?

100

This symbol at the beginning of the staff tells the pitch range.

What is a clef?

100

This articulation means short and detached.

What is staccato?

200

This note gets 1 ½ beats.

What is a dotted quarter note?

200

These are used so different endings can be played after a repeat.

What are 1st and 2nd endings?

200

All Cows Eat Grass helps remember these.

What are the spaces of the bass clef?

200

This tells how many beats are in a measure and what note gets the beat.

What is a time signature?

200

This articulation means smooth and connected.

What is legato?

300

This note gets 3 beats in 4/4 time.

What is a dotted half note?

300

This musical direction means “go back to the sign, then jump to the coda.”

What is D.S. al Coda?

300

These small lines extend the staff higher or lower.

What are ledger lines?

300

This vertical line separates measures.

What is a bar line?

300

This curved line connects different notes smoothly.

What is a slur?

400

Four of these equal one quarter note.

What are 16th notes?

400

This symbol marks the final section of music.

What is the Coda sign?

400

Good Boys Do Fine Always helps remember these.

What are the lines of the bass clef?

400

This is the set of 5 horizontal lines where music is written.

What is a staff?

400

This curved line connects two notes of the same pitch.

What is a tie?

500

This symbol represents half a beat of silence.

What is an 8th rest?

500

This sign tells musicians where to return in the music.

What is the Del Segno sign?

500

FACE helps remember these.

What are the spaces of the treble clef?

500

This is the space between two bar lines.

What is a measure?

500

This marking means to play a note with extra emphasis.

What is an accent?

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