Note Values
Instruments
Symbols
100
A half note gets this number of beats.
What is 2
100
This instrument, a woodwind, looks like a clarinet and uses a double reed.
What is an oboe?
100
This symbol separates higher instruments and lower instruments.
What is the treble clef?
200
This type of note gets 1 beat.
What is a quarter note
200
This instrument is the smallest, and highest pitched, in the brass family.
What is the trumpet?
200
This tells you how many beats there are per measure.
What is a time signature
300
Two of these notes will equal one beat.
What are eighth notes
300
This percussion instrument is most commonly found in marching bands, in the center of the drumline.
What is a snare drum?
300
This separates music into measures.
What is a barline
400
A dotted quarter note gets this number of beats.
What is a beat and a half
400
This instrument is the only other one that uses a double reed.
What is a bassoon?
400
This symbol looks like an upside down eye.
What is a fermata?
500
Four of these notes will equal one beat.
What are sixteenth notes
500
This instrument is a small flute.
What is a piccolo?
500
This symbol tells you to gradually get louder.
What is a crescendo?
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