Musical structures
The consistent, evenly spaced pulse throughout a song.
What is the steady beat?
This six stringed instrument has both electric and acoustic versions.
What is a guitar?
This describes how high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
This track on music projects often contains a drumkit, and can also be described as the rhythm of sounds in time.
What is rhythm?
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Major Chord
This drum sound is frequently placed on the 2nd and 4th beats of a song in 4/4 time.
What is a snare drum?
The original name of this instrument is a little longer: Clavicembalo col forte e _____
What is a piano?
This describes how soft or loud a sound is.
What is intensity or volume?
This is a series of specific intervals made up of whole and half steps.
What is a scale?
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Minor Chord
A unit of musical time that repeats throughout a song.
What is a measure?
This instrument has dozens of variations, including djembe, cuicas, taiko, and toms.
What are drums?
The name for the unique quality of sound different instruments make.
What is timbre?
This is the part of a song you can sing, or a series of notes played one at a time.
What is melody?
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Major Scale
It determines how many steady beats go into one measure.
What is the time signature?
This instrument creates and modulates waveforms in an attempt to mimic the sound of other instruments and create new ones.
What is a synthesizer?
These sound frequencies travel far, and sometimes even through solid objects!
What is low?
When multiple notes are played at the same time, regardless of it's one or more instruments doing it.
What is harmony?
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Minor Scale
This time signature has 4 steady beats per measure.
What is 4/4?
One variation of this instrument has a keyboard on one side and buttons on the other, and produces sound by the player pulling in and pushing out air through it's bellows.
What is an accordion?
Something you can wear to prevent the ringing sound known as tinnitus.
What are earplugs?
This musical sound is created by playing 3 or more notes simultaneously, and can be described as major or minor.
What is a chord?
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