General Music Review 7/8

Instruments/Families

100

Instruments in this family are struck, shaken, or scraped to produce musical sounds.

Percussion

200

This brass instrument has a slide 

trombone

300

This instrument family contains the saxophone

Woodwinds

400

Name five instruments that belong to the strings family

Guitar, ukulele, harp, piano, mandolin, banjo, etc.

500

This electronic instrument is played without being touched, as the musician's hands hover and move over it.

Theremin 

Pitches

100

Name the letters of the musical alphabet 

ABCDEFG

200

These two pitches do NOT have a sharp after them 

B and E 

300

What pitch is the second space up from the bottom in bass clef? 

C

400

Let's say you are reading the chords to a song on ultimateguitar.com. You play the chords on guitar and realize it doesn't match the key, why might this be? 

You need a capo, strings are tuned to different pitches, you need to transpose. 

500

G# (G sharp) is the same pitch as this flat note

Ab (A flat) 

Misc. Music

100

This composer wrote nine symphonies and conducted the last one while he was so deaf he could not hear his orchestra

Ludwig Van Beethoven

200

Name at least two of the four Beatles

John Lennon

Paul McCartney

Ringo Starr 

George Harrison 

300

"Ensemble" is French for this word

Together 

400

*Wrap an instrument cable correctly*

You did it! / You wrapped it wrong...

500

This is the pattern of whole and half steps that makes a major scale 

Whole whole half whole whole whole half 

Music Production

100

Name a type of bass used in music

upright bass, electric bass guitar, 808 (digital) bass 

200

This is the word for two voices singing different pitches that sound good together

Harmony 

300

Name an effect we discussed that is used in music production 

...

400

This is the effect where a voice or instrument distinctly bounces/repeats ( ECHO. ECHO. Echo. echo.) 

Delay 

500

This is the effect used often by rappers where they record the same thing multiple times and layer them in the audio

Double tracking 

Misc. Classroom

100

Name an instrument that Mr. King plays.

Flute, guitar, drums, bass, piano, sax

200

Name an instrument that annoys Mr. King

Otamatone, slapstick, thunder tubes, etc. 

300

This is the name of the music room otamatone 

Bob 

400

Before it was a music room, this space was a  _____ 

Gym 

500

Name seven percussion instruments in the music room

E-drums, snare drums, singing bowls, xylophones, bell kits, hand bells, keyboard, tambourine, bongos, slapstick, maracas, etc.