Instruments
Musical Terms
People in Music
Ukulele
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100
This string instrument generally plays the role of the bass parts in rock, jazz, and pop bands.
What is the bass guitar/electric bass?
100
On ukulele, the two main methods of playing the strings are plucking, which is playing one string at a time, and this, playing most or all the strings.
What is strumming?
100
John Williams is best known for composing music for movies such as Harry Potter and this famous science fiction series.
What is Star Wars?
100
In 1st position, finger 1 would be placed on this fret.
What is fret 1?
100
Ukelele, violin, and bass guitar are all string instruments with this many strings.
What is 4?
200
Louis Armstrong was one of the most famous players of this brass instrument.
What is the trumpet/cornet?
200
This scale, typically used for soloing over blues chord progressions, is also called the minor pentatonic scale.
What is the blues scale?
200
Before he was hired as one of Nintendo's first composers, this composer would play electric organ in garage bands with his friends.
Who is Koji Kondo?
200
The ukulele belongs to this instrument family.
What is the string family?
200
Instruments like the electric guitar need to be plugged into this device in order to amplify the sound.
What is an amplifier/amp?
300
Snare, bass, timpani, and bongos are all types of this percussion instrument.
What are drums?
300
This basic building block of harmony refers to 3 or more notes played at the same time.
What is a chord?
300
This composer is considered one of the greatest of the Baroque era and also spent several years effectively in prison.
Who is Bach?
300
This chord is played by putting your third finger on the third fret of string one, as shown.
What is C major?
300
Clapping your hands, stomping your feet, and pounding your chest would turn your body into this family of instruments.
What are percussion instruments?
400
Instruments such as the flute, clarinet, saxophone, and recorder fall under this family of wind instruments.
What are woodwinds?
400
This symbol represents a beat of silence in music.
What is a rest/quarter rest?
400
This composer and pianist married another composer and pianist, but had to stop performing in order to support her family when her husband got sick.
Who is Clara Schumann?
400
Using the correct fingering, the F major chord uses these two fingers.
What are fingers 1 and 2?
400
This activity is the making of music using only the human voice.
What is singing?
500
This rare French instrument is part of the string family and uses a cranked wheel in place of a bow.
What is the hurdy gurdy?
500
This style of singing is used to teach people how to sing.
What is solfege?
500
This jazz pianist was also a renowned teacher, famous for working with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk.
Who was Mary Lou Williams?
500
This part of the ukulele is where the strings contact the instrument at the top of the neck.
What is the nut?
500
Guitar solos and freestyle rapping are both examples of this way of making music.
What is improvisation?