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a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note or half a half note, represented by a large solid dot with a plain stem.
What is a quarter note?
100
An American singer, songwriter and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child.
Who is Beyonce?
100
Pop song released in January of 2016 co-written and performed by Rihanna and Drake.
What is Work?
100
A stringed musical instrument with a fretted fingerboard, typically incurved sides, and six or twelve strings, played by plucking or strumming with the fingers or a pick.
What is a guitar?
100
The hometown of hip hop artists Nas, Jay-Z, and Notorious B.I.G.
What is New York City?
200
The speed at which a passage of music is or should be played.
What is tempo?
200
He is an American hip hop recording artist and songwriter. Born and raised in Compton, California, he embarked on his musical career as a teenager under the stage name K-Dot.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
200
The number one song on the Billboard Charts by Ed Sheeran.
What is "Shape of You?"
200
An acoustic, stringed musical instrument in which the strings are struck by hammers.
What is a piano?
200
"Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond is played in the middle of the 8th inning for this baseball team's home games.
Who are the Boston Red Sox?
300
A musical symbol used to indicate the pitch of written notes.
What is a clef?
300
A rock 'n' roll singing group from Liverpool, England, that was phenomenally popular in the middle and late 1960s.
Who are The Beatles?
300
This song by The Black Eyed Peas is the most downloaded song of all-time on iTunes.
What is "I Gotta Feeling?"
300
A collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player with drumsticks held in both hands and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.
What is a drum set or kit?
300
Aside from most of the Beatles albums, this recording studio (formerly EMI Studios) is also the recording site of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), parts of Radiohead’s The Bends (1995) and OK Computer (1997), and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way (2011). There is also a Beatles album named after this studio.
What is Abbey Road Studios?
400
An indication of rhythm following a clef, generally expressed as a fraction with the denominator defining the beat as a division of a whole note and the numerator giving the number of beats in each bar.
What is a time signature?
400
An American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has been blind since shortly after birth.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
400
A song recorded by American rapper Kanye West featuring guest vocals by Jamie Foxx, released in 2005.
What is "Gold Digger?"
400
A stringed musical instrument of treble pitch, played with a horsehair bow.
What is a violin?
400
The highest selling album of 2016. It won the grammy for Album of Year.
What is 25 by Adele?
500
Each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others.
What is staccato?
500
A New Zealand singer-songwriter and record producer. Her debut single was "Royals"
Who is Lorde?
500
This song by Drake currently holds the record for more streams on Spotify of all-time.
What is "One Dance?"
500
A woodwind instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece, a cylindrical tube with a flared end, and holes stopped by keys.
What is a clarinet?
500
Released in 1982, it is the highest selling album of all time, with an estimated 65 million copies sold.
What is Thriller by Michael Jackson?
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