Instrument Families
This family is made up of instruments that are usually made of a substance naturally found growing in a forest.
What is the Woodwind Family?
Half note + Half note +whole note
What is 8?
This term means to gradually get louder.
What is a crescendo?
This type of note gets 4 counts in 4/4 time.
What is a whole note?
The number of siblings Ms. Beres has.
What is zero?
This family is made of instruments that are made of metallic substances.
What is the brass family?
Quarter note + half note +quarter note - two eighth notes + whole note
What is 7?
This term means to gradually get faster.
What is accelerando?
This type of rest receives 1/2 of a beat in 2/4 time.
What is an eighth rest?
Blue
What is the name of Ms. Beres' cat?
This family is made of instruments that have thin strands of fiber that you draw a bow across to produce a sound.
What is the String family?
Whole note x quarter note
What is 4?
This term means to gradually get softer.
What is decrescendo (or diminuendo)?
This type of note receives three beats in 3/4 time.
What is a dotted half note?
Ms. Beres' favorite color.
What is purple?
This instrument family is made up of objects that you either hit, strike or shake.
What is the percussion family?
Dotted Half note - quarter note +whole note - eighth note +2 sixteenth notes.
What is 6?
This term means to gradually slow down.
What is a ritard?
It takes four of this kind of note to equal one beat in 2/4 time.
What is a sixteenth note?
Ms. Beres' favorite food.
What are french fries?
These two instruments are members of the Woodwind family even though they are usually made of metal.
What are the flute and saxophone?
Quarter note + dotted half note + half rest -quarter rest.
What is 5?
This term means to play very loud.
What is fortissimo?
This rhythmic figure takes three of a certain kind of note and squeezes it into the space of two of that same kind of note.
What is a triplet?
The amount of virtual stickers you need to collect before you earn a spin on the prize wheel.
What is 9?