Parts of the Instrument
The part that holds up the strings on the instrument.
What is the bridge?
This musical symbol looks like a hashtag.
What is a sharp?
Violinists and violists should have a straight left hand wrist when playing and not this.
What is a pizza wrist?
The song "Rolling Along" is another name for what popular children's song.
What is Mary Had a Little Lamb?
The number of daughters Ms. Jones has.
What is three?
The swirly top of a stringed instrument.
What is the scroll?
This type of note gets one beat.
What is a quarter note?
In order to play in tune, you need to make sure your fingers go exactly on these.
What are the tapes?
"Boil Them Cabbages" is an example of what type of music?
What is a fiddle tune?
Ms. Jones' favorite baseball player.
Who is Yadier Molina?
You rub this on the bow.
What is rosin?
This is what divides the music into measures.
What are bar lines?
Where the pinky should be on a violin or viola bow hold?
What is the top of the stick?
"Ode to Joy" was written by this composer.
Who is Beethoven?
Ms. Jones' favorite color.
What is purple?
This is used to tune the instrument.
Tuning pegs or fine tuners
This indicates the end of the piece.
What is a double bar line?
In 3rd grade, we practiced bow holds on this before we tried the practice bow and then the real bow.
What is a pencil?
The ABC song and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" both have the same tune as this song.
What is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"?
Ms. Jones is allergic to this.
What is cinnamon?
The black, rectangular piece at the bottom of the bow.
What is the frog?
A double bar with two dots.
What is a repeat sign?
How your left hand fingers should be when you put them on the strings.
What is curved?
A sequence of notes in ascending or descending order. (going up or down by steps)
What is a scale?
There are five staff members at River Bend who Ms. Jones has worked with in another school district. Name at least one of them.
Who is: Dr. Otto; Mrs. Bebe; Mr. Waller; Coach Brown, Mr. Webb