Notes
Pitch
Elements
Definitions
Squirrel!
100
This note is one beat long
What is a quarter note?
100
E G B D F
What are the lines of the staff?
100

The pattern of notes, sounds and silences

What is rhythm?

100
Sound
What is a note?
100
5 lines and 4 spaces
What is a staff?
200
This note is 2 beats long.
What is a half note?
200
F A C E
What are the spaces of the staff?
200
High and low sounds
What is pitch?
200
Silence
What is a rest?
200
Line 3 of the staff
What is B?
300
This note is 4 beats long.
What is a whole note?
300
Line 5 of the staff
What is F?
300
Loud and soft
What is dynamics?
300
Line 4 of the staff
What is D?
300
Space 1 of the staff
What is F?
400
This note is 1/2 beat long. It takes 2 to make 1 beat.
What is an eighth note?
400
Space 3 on the staff
What is C?
400
Speed
What is tempo?
400
Line 1 of the staff
What is E?
400
Space on top of the staff
What is G?
500
This note is 1/4 beats long. It takes 4 of them to make 1 beat.
What is a sixteenth note?
500
Space 4 on the staff
What is E?
500

What makes different instruments unique?

What is timbre?

500
Line 2 of the staff
What is G?
500
2 notes below the staff (the line, not the space note)
What is middle C?
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