Note Symbols
Piano Basics
Theory
Reading Music
Music Direction
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This note gets 1 count or beat

What is a Quarter Note?

100

This finger is another name for finger number 1

What is a Thumb?

100

This means to play Loud

What is Forte?

100

This is the name of the Right Hand or G Clef

What is Treble Clef?

100

This means to play up or down from one note to the very next note

What is a Step?

200

This note gets 2 counts or beats

What is a Half Note?

200

This finger is another name for finger number 5

What is a Pinky?

200

This means to play Soft

What is Piano?

200

This is the name of the Left Hand or F Clef

What is Bass Clef?

200

This means to play up or down from one note on a line to the very next line or space to the next space

What is a Skip?

300

This note gets 4 counts or beats

What is a Whole Note?

300

This is the meaning of the R.H. abbreviation

What is Right Hand?

300

A mark or symbol in your music that tells you what volume to play

What is a Dynamic Mark?

300

A group of 5 lines and 4 spaces

What is The Staff?

300

A set of notes walking up stairs that step up or down from one key to the next starting and ending on the Home Note

What is a Scale?

400

This note gets 3 counts or beats

What is a Dotted Half Note?

400

The amount of letters in the musical alphabet

What is 7?

400

A symbol at the beginning of your music that tells you how many beats are in a measure

What is a Time Signature?

400

A group of beats in music

What is a Measure?

400

The Home Note and 5th Note of a scale played at the same time

What is a Chord Shell?

500

This symbol means silence for 1 beat

What is a Quarter Rest?

500

The notes on the piano go higher when you play in which direction?

What is going up the piano or to the right?

500

The distance of playing a note 8 notes higher or lower

What is an Octave?

500

A line that divides the music into measures

What is a Bar Line?

500

A set of notes skipping up and down a chord starting and ending on the Home Note

What is an Arpeggio?

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