Music Terms
Clapping Rhythms
Billboard Top 100
Band for Band
Artist Top Songs
100

Uh oh! This musical symbol for raising a note by one half step could also be mistaken for a hashtag

Sharp Sign

100

Please clap this rhythm:

♩♩♩♩

ta ta ta ta

100

Thanks to Crumbl Cookie, I got to find out what the moonbeam ice cream could have tasted like, a line made popular by this song that came out earlier this year. 

Mystical Magical - Benson Boone
100

I hope you have high, high hopes for the living after listening to a later selection from this "band"... even though that song came out when it was only a one man band.

Panic! At the Disco

100

This Justin Beiber hit was released in 2009 when he was only 13! When I was in school, he was hated by all the guys for this song.

Baby

200

Sharing the name with a well known U.S. Coin, this note typically only equals 1 beat.

Quarter Note

200

Please clap this rhythm:

♩♫♩♩

ta ti-ti ta ta

200

I'm really starting to feel like family after listening to this song, which was the song of the summer in 2015 made famous by the movie Fast and Furious 7 which came out earlier that year.

See you again, Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth

200

I know that I can't take no more, and that certainly ain't no lie. I do genuinely like the popular 90s-2000s boy band that performed this song, even if they wished to see me out that door, baby Bye Bye Bye.

NSYNC

200

Beyonce's top song tells all of these people to put their hands up.

Single Ladies

300

4/4, 3/4, 6/8. These are examples of the numbers at the beginning of any piece of music that go under this name.

Time Signature

300

Please clap this rhythm:

♫ ♫♩♩

ti-ti ti-ti ta ta

300

20 dollars will get you a lot at this location according to this song which was one of the top songs of 2013, the year most of the seventh graders were born!

Thrift Shop - Mackelmore

300

This all-girl band has a lot to say about a bag of Takis, Boba Tea, and what Gnarly means to them.

KATSEYE

300

Tyler the Creator has had a lot of popular songs, this one in particular being most popular from his album IGOR which came out in 2019.

EARFQUAKE

400

This mnemonic device (PEMDAS is a mnemonic device) helps us remember what notes fall on the lines of the treble clef.

EGBDF (Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Every Good Body Does Fine, any EGBDF iteration is accepted)

400

Please clap this rhythm:

♩♩♫♫

Ta ta ti-ti ti-ti

400

"AAAAHH! IT'S SO BRIGHT IN HERE!" which is what I would likely say about this song that was one of the most popular songs in the year 2020, featuring a sound similar to that of the 1980s.

Blinding Lights - The Weeknd

400

This boy band popular in the early 2010s really lights up my world like nobody else, and makes me feel beautiful.

One Direction

400

Sia's most popular song shares a name with an overhead light fixture.

Chandelier

500

This word at the beginning of a song tells you to play that song really fast. You would likely also hear this word spoken when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.

Presto

500

Please clap this rhythm:

♫♩♫♩

ti-ti ta, ti-ti ta

500

"What would a mix of country and rap sound like?" is what I would be saying if this top song from 2019 didn't exist, later featuring a solo by Billy Ray Cyrus.

Old Town Road - Lil Nas X

500

A popular band from the early 1980s, who really seemed to have a knack for puppetry, had a resurgence of popularity a few years back thanks to a guitar solo performed in the Upside Down on one of the last episodes of the season in Netflix's Stranger Things.

Metallica

500

Laufey, an icelandic jazz/pop singer, released this song two years ago, sparking a lot of attention on TikTok. "He's so perfect, blah blah blah".

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