Chapter 1- The Staff
The number of lines and spaces in a staff.
What is 5 lines and 4 spaces
The steady pulse in music is called this.
What is a beat
Notes in their simplest form only contain a note head, and usually a stem. These are attached to the stem and appear as if they are waving in the wind.
What are flags
The keys on a piano are these two colors.
What are white and black.
The degree numbers for the intervals in a scale.
What are 1-8
The lines notes are placed on that are located above and below the staff.
What are ledger lines
Beats are placed along a staff and separated by bar lines. This is the group of beats between two of these lines.
What is a measure
Pol-y-ann-a. Co-ca-co-la. Wat-er-mel-on. There are lots of different words or syllables you can use to count these types of notes, four of which equal a quarter note.
What are sixteenth notes.
This reference note is located about halfway up or down a full size keyboard.
What is middle C.
A scale is built using a series of half steps and whole steps. In fact, if you were to split a scale into two equal parts, you would get two of these 4 note-steps made by a pattern of two whole steps and a half step.
What is a tetrachord
Good Boys Do Fine Always is a saying for the lines in the F Clef, also known as this.
What is the bass clef
Rules! Unfortunately, we can't just put however many beats we want into every bar. To assist us in organizing, this symbol tells us how many beats are in a measure, and what type of note gets the beat.
What is the time signature
Picture a measure with 4 beats. Now, imagine you have a half note, followed by four eighth notes. How would you count the eighth notes?
What is "3 & 4 &"
The distance between two adjacent keys on a keyboard.
What is half step
The fifth note in a F major scale.
What is C
Put on a happy FACE! The spaces in this clef, also known as the G clef, spell this familiar word.
What is the treble clef
Common time has 4 beats in a measure. This note type represents one of these beats.
What is a quarter note
These connect two or more eighth notes or sixteenth notes together.
What are beams
Notes on a keyboard can have multiple names, for example C# and Db. This is the term we use to describe these pitches.
What are enharmonic notes
The third note in a D major scale.
What is F#
The pitch on the first ledger line below the staff in bass clef.
What is E
If you are familiar with fractions, you will be ahead of the game! This type of rest is one-fourth of a half rest.
What is an eighth rest.
In a measure containing three beats of quarter notes, the number of sixteenth notes that could make up a full measure.
What is twelve
When naming notes, a chromatic half step uses the same letter name. This type uses the next letter name.
What is diatonic
The sixth note in an A major scale.
What is F#