Songwriting 101
The alternate name for the words in a song.
What are lyrics?
Which industry job category did we study that includes Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Tyler the Creator, and many more?
What is a performer?
Also acceptable: Artist, Recording Artist
The main line of music that you hum or whistle when you hear a song.
What is the melody?
This famous rapper recently performed at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show and has beef with Drake.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison made up this famous rock band.
What is The Beatles?
3 notes stacked on top of each other. Can be called major or minor.
What are chords?
These professionals are the original creators of the music that we hear in movies, TV shows, and video games.
What is a composer?
These symbols on sheet music tell musicians which pitch to play or sing.
Billie Eilish's famous singer-songwriter brother.
Who is FINNEAS?
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo recently starred in Act One of this movie, based on a Broadway musical.
What is Wicked?
Major chords tend to feel like this basic emotion.
DAILY DOUBLE: if you can give alternate emotions to match the sound of major.
What is happy?
This job combines music and medicine and uses therapeutic techniques combined with music to help patients overcome a variety of conditions.
What is music therapist?
The instrument that features 88 keys, some white and some black, that often accompanies singers or is used in DAW's as a basic note template.
What is a piano?
Puerto Rican rapper Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio's stage name.
What is Bad Bunny?
Finish the lyric: In the song “Wannabe,” the Spice Girls say, “I really really really wanna—”
What is "A Zig-azig-ah"?
The part of the song that is the most catchy, repeats the main idea of the song, and is most likely to get stuck in your head.
What is the chorus?
These musicians are heard but not usually well-known. They play in studios for film, tv, and recordings.
What are session musicians?
This style of music is a uniquely American style of music rooted in blues and R&B, often featuring trumpet, saxophone, rhythm section, and improvised solos.
What is Jazz?
DAILY DOUBLE: This singer performs "Fortnight" alongside this rapper. Double points for both names.
Who are Taylor Swift and Post Malone?
Beyonce made an entire album of country music, with this title.
What is Cowboy Carter?
This songwriting tool that we all have inside of us helps us make choices when we write songs.
What is our songwriter's compass?
These folks are the ones primarily responsible for making recorded music sound good. They operate the sound boards and mixers, and do both pre and post recording mixing and mastering.
What is a sound engineer?
This popular instrument has 4 strings and is the heart and soul of any piece of modern music.
Whitney Houston covered the song “I Will Always Love You” for her movie The Bodyguard. This famous blonde superstar sang the original.
Who is Dolly Parton?
One of The White Stripes’ most famous songs is often played by marching bands at sporting events.
What is "Seven Nation Army"?