Rhythm
Instrument Riddles
Note Value
Music Vocabulary
Toss Up
100

Clap Rhythm 1

ta ta ta ta

100

Name the instrument that uses a slide to change pitch

What is a trombone?

100
Beats in a whole note

What is 4 beats?

100

Define Forte

What is loud?

100

The letters in the musical alphabet

What is A through G?

200

Clap rhythm 2

ta ta ti-ti ta

200

Name the instrument that comes in a pair and are hit against each other in the percussion section.

What are cymbals?

200

Beats in a quarter note

What is 1 beat?

200

Define Piano (not the instrument)

soft

200

This clef looks like half a heart

What is bass clef?

300

Clap rhythm 3

Ta ta-a ti-ti

300
The flute belongs to which family of instruments?

What is woodwinds?

300

Beats in a half note

What is 2 beats?

300

Define tempo

How fast or slow the music is played

300

Difference between orchestra and band

What are string instruments?

400

Clap rhythm 4

ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti ta

400

To which family does the saxophone belong

What is woodwinds?

400

Beats in an eighth note

What is half a beat?

400

The top number of a time signature tells us

How many beats in a measure

400

What does Mr. Smith coach? 

Golf

500

Clap rhythm 5

ta-a-a ti-ti

500

This brass instrument is made of tubes twisted around in a circle. It is played with one hand in the bell of the horn, and one hand on the valves.

What is a french horn?

500

Beats in a dotted half note

What is 3 beats?

500

The bottom number of the time signature tells us

What note value gets the beat

500

What is Mrs. Nelson's favorite animal?

Cats
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