Notes and Rhythms
How many eighth notes in two measures of a waltz.
12
This songwriter who traveled throughout the country during The Great Depression wrote "This Land is Your Land"
Who is Woody Guthrie
Complete the following line "Do you say you don't believe it? Take a saucer and a spoon..."
"Though you're sour as a lemon, you'll be sweeter very soon."
These are the four pillars of Hip Hop
What are break dancing, DJing, MCing, and tagging/graffiti art.
Put these notes in order from longest first to shortest last: Quarter Note, Half Note, Eighth Note, Whole Note, Sixteenth Note
Whole Note, Half Note, Quarter Note, Eighth Note, Sixteenth Note
This singer/songwriter became famous using TikTok to promote his music, and wrote the song "Books"
Who is Jesse Welles?
If you add all the numbers in the chorus of "Count On Me" what is the total?
1+2+3=6 4+3+2=9 6+9=15
In break dancing these are the two main categories of moves
Top Rocks and Foot Work
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Name two American authors listed in the verses of "Books"
Herman Melville, Jack London, Madeleine L'Engle, Walt Whitman, John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemmingway, Cormac McCarthy, Mary Oliver
Complete the following line, "And some just clap their hands..."
" or paws, or fins, or claws, or tentacles, or jaws, or anything they got now, bow-wow."
This groundbreaking DJ developed the two-turn-table method he called the "Merry-go-round" to play break beats back to back on a loop.
DJ Kool Herc
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Recite all the authors/books in the third verse of "Books." I'll get you started, "Like Shakespeare..."
Recite the rap from "Let's Mooove." I'll get you started. "If you want to dance with me..."
"You gotta get down quite literally,
cuz what's your bread without your butter,
everybody's like can I have an utter
cuz this here slice got extra cheese
don't get with that goat chevre please
Can’t tolerate me? I understand,
But break out the whole milk if you can.
Do the cat, (Meow) Do the cow,
Ain’t no place you gotta be but in the now.
Breathe in, breathe out…. Wow..."
This is the process of taking a short section of an existing song and using it to create a new song or beat (like Kriss Kross did to create the song "Jump" with the use of "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5)
What is sampling?