Woodwinds
Brasswinds
Percussion
Music Theory
Rhythms
100
Name of the piece of bamboo necessary to create sound on a woodwind instrument (except flute).
What is a reed?
100
The name for the end of a brass instrument where the sound comes out.
What is the bell?
100
The name of the main drum you play.
What is a snare drum?
100
The number of beats in a bar when the time signature is:
What is 4?
100
This is the value of a whole note plus a half note (give the total number of beats).
What is 6 beats?
200
This holds the reed on the mouthpiece.
What is a ligature?
200
The name of the note produced when a trumpet pushes down 1st and 3rd valve.
What is note D? (or concert C)
200
Name of the drum that you play with the foot pedal.
What is a bass drum?
200
A concert Bb is this note, if you play clarinet, tenor saxophone, or trumpet.
What is C?
200
The number of total beats in these two bars of music added together:
What is 8?
300
This many fingers are pressed down to play a "G" on the clarinet.
What is 0?
300
The number of slide positions on a trombone.
What is 7?
300
What you call playing with your sticks in a L R L R L R pattern.
What is alternating sticking?
300
Piano, mezzoforte, forte, crescendo, and decrescendo are all examples of this element of music.
What are dynamics?
300
Write the following rhythmic values, in this order:
a) quarter note, pair of eighth notes, half note
AND
b) quarter note, pair of eighth notes, quarter note, quarter rest
What is:
a)
b)
400
Draw the fingering for a concert Bb for any one of the woodwind instruments.
Finger 1: Flute
Fingering 2: Clarinet or Alto Sax
Fingering 3: Tenor Sax
400
Doing this helps you player higher notes on a brass instrument.
What is a) playing with colder, faster air b) tightening the corners of your mouth c) playing with more air (or playing louder) d) making your aperture smaller?
400
Write the two bars of rhythm drums play during our instrument warm up.
It should look like this:
400
The names of the spaces of the treble clef spell this word.
What is "FACE"?
400
This rhythm gets 4 full beats (draw it and name it).
What is a whole note?
500
The name of the part of the instrument that flute players rest their embouchure on.
What is the lip plate?
500
The names of other types of brass instruments that we do not have here at SK.
What are French Horn and Tuba?
500
Name two things involved in properly holding the drum sticks.
What is gripping with your thumb and pointer finger (other three fingers wrap around for support), backs of your hands facing up, elbows pointed out, holding the sticks with about 2 inches from the end, loose wrists (to allow for bounce)?
500
The syllable we use/say for articulation.
What is "ta"?
500
This is the number of beats a dotted half note gets.
What is 3 beats?
