Notes
Rests
The Staff
Music Vocabulary
Music Math in 4/4
100

A circle with a stem, it gets 2 beats in 4/4 time.

What is a half note?

100

It looks like a squigely line and gets 1 beat of silence.

What is a quarter rest?

100

The number of lines in a staff.

What is 5?

100

The first syllable in sol feg.

What is do?

100

The total of 2 quarter notes.

What is 2?

200

A circle, it holds for 4 beats in 4/4 time.

What is a a whole note?

200

Holding for 2 beats of silence, it resembles a hat as it sits on the 3rd line of the staff.

What is a half rest?

200

The number of lines in a grand staff.

What is 10?

200

The space on a staff in between bar lines.

What is a measure?

200

The total of 2 half notes.

What is 4?

300

It looks like a quarter note with one flag and holds for 1/2 of one beat.

What is an eighth note?

300

It looks like a fancy 7 or a line with one flag waving to the left and gets 1/2 of a beat of silence.

What is an eighth rest?

300

Also known as the G clef, it is the top staff in a grand staff.

What is the treble clef?

300

Do, re, mi, fa and sol

What are the first five notes (or syllables) in a sol feg scale?

300

The total of 1 whole note plus 1 half note.

What is 6?

400

It's what you see if you color in the circles on a half note and it receives 1 beat in 4/4 time.

What is a quarter note?

400

A single line with 2 flags, it gets 1/4 of a beat of silence.

What is a sixteenth rest?

400

Also known as the bass clef, this clef name is the same as the letter name for notes on this 4th line of the bottom staff in a grand staff.

What is the F clef?

400

It tells how many beats in a measure and what kind of note gets one beat.

What is a time signature?

400

The sum of 1 whole note plus 1 quarter note.

What is 5?

500

4 of these notes, each with 2 flags, equals 1 beat of time.

What is a sixteenth note?

500

Hanging under the 4th line of the staff, this rest gets 4 beats of silence.

What is a whole rest?

500

The name of a small line that extends the staff to accomodate more notes.  

What is a ledger line?

500

Another word for the speed of the music.

What is tempo?

500

The total of 1 whole note plus 1 half note plus 1 quarter note plus 1 eighth note plus 2 sixteenth notes?

What is 8?

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