Key Signatures
This key has only 1 flat.
This time signature has 4 beats in a measure and the quarter note gets the beat.
What is 4/4?
This chord suffix indicates "minor."
What is a dash? "-"
A major scale contains this many pitches before repeating at the octave.
What is 7?
This is the number of individual keys on a standard piano.
What is 88?
In a flat key, this is the method to find the root.
What is find the 2nd to last flat?
This time signature used for waltzes contains 3 beats per measure and the quarter note gets the beat.
What is 3/4?
A chord symbol with nothing following is this quality.
What is major?
This major scale contains only white keys.
What is C major?
A keyboard that simulates the variable volume from a hard or soft articulation has this feature.
What is velocity sensitivity?
In a sharp key, this is the method to find the root.
Find the last sharp and go up one step.
Felt in two groupings of 3, this time signature has 6 beats per measure and the 8th note gets the beat.
What is 6/8?
This many major chords are in a given key.
What is 3?
This vocal music group is named after a common scale used throughout various cultures, comprised of 5 pitches.
What is Pentatonix?
This is Robert's (alleged) favorite chord.
Add9 over 3
The two sharps in the key signature of D (F# and C#), apply to this many Fs and Cs.
What is all Fs and Cs?
Usually felt in 4 groupings of 3, this time signature is common in African based claves. 12 beats per measure, and the 8th note gets the beat.
What is 12/8?
These chords are the 3 minor chords in the key of C.
What are D-, E-, and A-? (or ii, iii, vi)
This is the name of a basic 5 finger scale.
What is a pentascale?
What is a pedal or pedal point?
The order of sharps and flats is based off of this order, or "circle" of pitches.
What is the circle of fifths?
Be careful playing in this time signature, eighth notes get the beat and one measure is felt as an odd combination of 3s and 2s: 3+2+2, or 2+2+3 are the most common.
What is 7/8?
This is the order of pitches from bottom up in a 2nd inversion E- chord.
This is the order of intervals that create a major scale.
What is WWHWWWH (W=whole, H=half)?
This is the function of the middle pedal on most grand pianos.
What is selective sustain?