Time signature
The upper figure in a time signature.
What is the number of beats in a measure?
The relationship between natural minor scales and major scales
What is having the same key signature?
This scale is the first variation of the natural minor scale
What is the harmonic minor scale?
C major is at the top of the circle of fifths for this reason.
What is C major having no sharps or flats?
The direction the stem goes if the note is on the fifth line of the staff
What is going in the downward direction?
The bottom figure in a time signature.
What note will represent one beat? Eg. 4/4 the quarter note represents one beat
What is the name for the 8th degree of the scale
The name for the 8th degree of a scale is “Octave”
The difference between the harmonic minor scale and the natural minor scale.
What is having the seventh scale degree raised by a semitone?
There are this many major keys in the circle of fifths
What is 12 major keys?
Another way to find the relative major key, form the tonic would be to do this.
What is counting UP three or DOWN six?
Beat of the measure that is the most accented.
What is the first beat of the measure?
Technical first name for the first note of any scale
What is the Tonic?
The technical names for the second and seventh notes of a scale
What is the Supertonic and Leadingtone?
This nemonic device is for the order of sharps, and the second is for the order of flats
What is Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle? FCGDAEB
And what is Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father?BEADGCF
These intervals are "Perfect"
What are The 1st, 4th, 5th, and 8th?
Finding the value of any triplet
What is the value of two of the notes combined?
What are the technical names for the notes that are between the tonic and the dominant?
The mediant and the submediant are the technical names for the notes between the tonic and the dominant.
The Tone-semitone pattern for a major scale
What is T, T, S, T T T S?
(Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Tone, Semitone)
This is what the circle of fifths shows
The circle of fifths shows the relationship of one key to another by the number of sharps or flats in the key signature and the order in which the sharps or flats occur.
The two types of intervals
The difference between simple and compound time
What is a two-pulse rhythm in simple time while each beat has a three-pulse rhythm compound time?
What is the technical names for the fourth and sixth degree of a scale
Subdominant and submediant respectively.
The tone-semitone pattern for a natural minor scale
What is T, S, T, T, S, T, T?
(Tone Semitone Tone Tone Semitone Tone Tone)
Describe in as much detail as you can how to create the circle of fifths. (Question format not required)
The circle is cut in half, then half again (fourths) then divide each section into thirds. You should be left with a circle divided into twelve sections (just like a clock). C goes on the top and F to left. Moving from left to right you put in the order of sharps F C G D A E B, then add the extra F# and C#. Go back to the top and write in the order of Flats beneath the F, remember to label each as a flat. Bb Eb Ab Db Gb Cb. Finally, to know the number of sharps or flats, count from 0 to 7 starting at C and ending on either C# or Cb for sharps or flats respectively.
The equivalent of D# Major
What is Ab Major?
(To be clear, this key does not exist, and you would not be asked a question like this. However, the methodology for solving questions such as this is something you should know.)