Got Rhythm?
Classy Brass
Hitting Things
Crash! Bang! Boom!
Musical Miscellany
100
This is the value of a quarter note.
What is one beat?
100
This is the highest-pitched brass instrument.
What is the trumpet?
100
This is the type of item used to hit bongos or congas.
What is the hands.
100
This instrument has two metal frames that are CRASHED together, frequently used in marching bands.
What are (crash) cymbals?
100
This is an off-beat rhythm, usually found in dance music.
What is syncopation?
200
This is the value of a half note.
What is 2 beats?
200
This is the largest, youngest, and biggest instrument in the brass family.
What is the Tuba?
200
This is the item(s) you use to hit a snare drum.
What are drum sticks?
200
This large membranophone BOOMS in drum sets as well as in the orchestra and is played with a mallet or foot pedal.
What is a bass drum?
200
This is the official name for any drum.
What is a membranophone?
300
This is the value of a dotted quarter note.
What is one and a half beats?
300
This is one variation on the Tuba (2).
What is a Euphonium? What is a Sousaphone?
300
This is the item used to play a triangle.
What is a beater?
300
This instrument is used in orchestral music but has heritage in Asian culture, sometimes used to announce people's arrival with a BANG.
What is a gong?
300
This is the official name for any non-drum percussion instrument.
What is an ideophone?
400
This is the value of a dotted half note.
What is two and a half beats.
400
This is the brass instrument that changes its pitches by using a slide instead of valves.
What is a Trombone?
400
This is the item(s) used to play xylophones, marimbas, and vibraphones.
What are mallets?
400
This instrument makes quite a BOOM in the orchestra, but it can also change pitch, not to mention there are four of them!
What are Timpani?
400
This is the term for tubing on a brass instrument that gets wider as it approaches the bell.
What is conical?
500
This is the value of two sixteenths plus an eighth.
What is one beat?
500
This is the purpose of the French Horn in the orchestra.
What is to cross over between the brass and woodwind families?
500
This is the item(s) used to play the tubular bells (chimes).
What are hammers?
500
This is the "slang" term for the instruments that a percussionist plays but due to their random placement in the music, s/he plays many of them in one piece of music. CRASH! BANG! BOOM!
What are "Toys"?
500
This is the instrument featured in this piece of music:
What is the French Horn?
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