Note Names
Rhythm Vocab and Activities
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Vocab and Lesson Activities
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100

This note is on the 2nd line of the TREBLE cleff.

What is G?

100

The top number of a time signature indicates...

What is "How many beats in the measure?"

100

A modern staff has this many lines and this many spaces

What is "5 lines and 4 spaces"

100

This acclaimed bassist and education theorist said, "Music is a Language," and "Music works best when you have something to say!" (*HINT: we watched a video of him speaking during our second class!)

What is "Victor Wooten"

100

Spontaneous, in-the-moment musical creating is also known as this term...

What is "Musical Improvisation"

200

This note sits on the 3rd line of the TREBLE cleff.

What is B?

200

4 Eighth notes fit into this many Quarter notes

what is 2 quarter notes

200

The term "BPM" stands for...

What is "Beats per minute"

200

Memorization technique based on repetition is also known as this kind of learning

What is Rote Learning

200

This note sits on the 5th line of the BASS clef...

What is "A"

300

This note sits on the 1st line of the BASS clef

What is G?

300

The spoken rhythm "Ta Ta Ti-Ti Tika-Tika" is notated with these note values

What is "Quarter note, Quarter note, Eighth note, Eighth note, Sixteenth note, Sixteenth note, Sixteenth note, Sixteenth note"

300

A "chord" contains this number of pitches...

What is three pitches

300

The singing voice is a three-part system containing these three parts:

What is "Power source (lungs), Vibration (larynx/voicebox) and Resonator (throat and mouth)"

300

We listened to this 1967 song by Nina Simone one week ago...

What is "I wish I knew how it would feel to be free"

400

These are the notes in the C major scale

What is C D E F G A B C or C D E F G A B

400

This is what we call the first beat in a measure

What is the Downbeat

400
Based on our "Food Rhythm Guide," the word "Pepperoni Pizza" can be notated using these specific kinds of note values...

What is "4 sixteenth notes & 2 eighth notes"

400

The lyrics "Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying" is from this 1971 hit song

What is "What's going on"

400

Stretching, deep breathing, and repeating the phrase "mama made me mash my M&Ms" at increasingly pitches are all examples of...

What is "Vocal Warmups"

500

This is the name of the black key lying in between the notes C and D on the keyboard (hint: it could be called two names!)

What is C sharp or D flat?

500

This is the game that requires the students to listen to the teacher playing a rhythm on a drum and write out the rhythm notation they think they hear being played. 

What is "Secret Pattern"

500

This is a non-traditional way of notating a rhythm using symbols rather than standard notation (hint: we did it in the first class!)

What is "rhythm matrix"

500

A learning style in which learning takes place by the students carrying out physical activities, rather than listening to a lecture or watching demonstrations is also known as....

What is "Kinesthetic Learning"

500

The teaching theory that is grounded in the belief that learning is variable and dependent on the learner’s immediate and past experiences with the material content of instruction is known as...

What is "Constructivist Teaching"

600

This note lies on the 3rd space of the TREBLE clef

What is C?

600

The number of eighth notes that can fit into one measure of a song with a 6/4 time signature

What is "12 eighth notes"

600

This rhythm game requires each student to listen to the person next to them as a particular phrase is repeated amongst the group 

What is "Pass the beat around the room"

600

This class composing activity asks the students to come up with particular words related to a specific theme

What is "Word Bank"

600

This key/scale is associated with sad, moody or scary songs...

What is "minor key"

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