Procedures
This is the side of your chair that your case is supposed to go on after you have unpacked your instrument.
What is left?
This is what Mr. Tuning calls it when a violin or viola player plays their instrument with a collapsed wrist.
What is pizza delivery hand/wrist?
This song features both a melody and an accompaniment and we played it at our concert last week.
What is Perpetual Rock Motion?
This kind of note receives one beat in 4/4 time.
What is a quarter note?
Mr. Tuning grew his hair out for 4 years before cutting it the day before this holiday.
What is Halloween?
This is the number or chairs that is needed in the front row when we practiced songs like Fiddler's Hoedown and Impulse.
What is eight?
The technique used when the music tells us to play multiple notes in the same bow direction, it is also a term used to describe words used against people in a negative and degrading way.
What are slurs?
This is the first ever full page song outside of the book that we learned in 6th grade orchestra.
What is Salamander Samba?
This is how many beats a dot adds when placed after a note.
What is half the length of the note it is next to?
Mr. Johnson is an avid concertgoer and saw Sabrina Carpenter perform at this stadium which is also famous for being the home of the 2023 NBA National Champion team, the Denver Nuggets.
What is Ball Arena?
This is what you had to do when you came into class at the beginning of the period.
What is bell work?
This is the amount of fingers you use to hold the bow.
What is 5?
This is the composer of Impulse.
Who is Brian Balmages?
A whole note is worth this many beats in 4/4 time.
What is 4 beats?
This venue in Colorado is famous for its Red Rocks, but a lot of people think it is a part of Denver when in reality these Red Rocks are actually located in this small, almost mountain town.
What is Morrison, Colorado?
This is what we would do before we started to play any of our songs out of the book.
What is warmup?
This is the technique that makes the orchestra instruments sound most like guitars and ukuleles.
What is Pizzicato?
This song only used quarter notes and quarter rests, and we played it at our concert last week.
What is Finger Rock?
This kind of rest receives one beat in 4/4 time.
What is a quarter rest?
This composer of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was a very prominent composer back in the 1700s, and his powdered wig was truly a sight to behold.
Who is Amadeus Mozart?
This is the position you hold your instrument in when there is a conductor on the podium.
What is concert position? OR What is ready position?
This is how both feet should be while you play your instrument.
What is flat on the floor?
This is the arranger of Fiddler's Hoedown who is also a professor of string music education at The Ohio State Unversity.
Who is Rob/Robert Gillespie?
This is the major key that has two sharps in the key signature.
What is the key of D Major?
Mr. Tuning and Mr. Johnson both graduated from this university known for being bolder than all the rest.
What is CU Boulder/University of Colorado at Boulder?