Instruments
This brass instrument uses a slide to adjust pitch rather than valves.
What is the trombone?
This thin piece of wood provides a surface for a woodwind player's air to vibrate on, resulting in the production of sound from the instrument.
What is a reed?
The five lines and four spaces that music is written upon.
This category of symbols represents a period of rest.
What is a rest?
This exercise contains all of the pitches in a particular key in ascending and descending order.
What is a scale?
This instrument is one of the only woodwind instruments that don't use a reed, and is typically the highest pitched voice in a typical concert band.
What is the flute?
This metal piece that is stuck into a brass instrument is used to provide a passage wide enough for the player to buzz into it, causing the instrument to produce sound.
What is a mouthpiece?
This describes how fast or slow a piece is performed.
This curved line connects two or more notes of different pitch.
What is a slur?
This exercise allows performers to practice the breath patterns of a piece or section before playing it.
What is tizzling?
This classification of instruments includes many instruments that are typically hit to produce sound such as a snare drum or marimba.
What is percussion?
This is what brass players press or depress in order to adjust pitch.
What is a valve?
This describes the volume of a piece or section of a piece.
What are dynamics?
This means to gradually increase the tempo.
What is an accelerando?
This exercise helps brass and woodwinds adjust their embouchure at the beginning of a rehearsal or practice by holding out notes for 2, 4, or more beats at a time.
What are long tones?
This instrument is typically the deepest-pitched instrument in a standard concert band.
What is the tuba?
This lever releases any built-up moisture inside of a brass instrument.
What is a spit valve or water key?
This tells you what set of pitches a piece is built upon.
What is a key signature?
When above a note, this symbol is instructing you to sustain the note until the conductor cuts you off.
What is a fermata?
This tool is used to help center a pitch to a certain frequency.
What is a tuner?
This woodwind instrument was invented to have the loud volume of a brass instrument, but the ease and clarity of technical passages of a woodwind instrument.
What is the saxophone?
This metal piece with screws holds a woodwind player's reed in place.
What is a ligature?
This tells you how many beats are in every measure and what note duration receives the beat.
What is a time signature?
This category of symbols above or below a note instructs the performer on how to play the note stylistically.
What is an articulation?
This tool is used to keep a steady tempo.
What is a metronome?