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This artist recently saw an uptick in streaming numbers when his song 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' was featured in the trailer for Antman: Quantumania

Who is Elton John

100

This man is still referred to as 'The King'.

Who is Elvis Presley

100

This family of instruments uses the buzzing motion of lips inside a mouthpiece to create sound

What is the Brass family

100

This man was the pope when Gregorian Chant was the norm.

Who is Gregory the Great

100

This is the number of beats that a half note gets in music

What is 2

200

This is the band that wrote Hey Jude, Blackbird, Come Together, and many other hits.

Who are The Beatles

200

This man was on his way to surpassing Elvis with hits like Peggy Sue, Because I Love You, and That'll Be The Day.

Who is Buddy Holly

200

This is the most basic visual of a sound, a physical representation of what sound 'looks' like.

What is a Wave Form/Wave

200

This event was directly responsible for launching the world into the dark ages

What is the fall of the Roman Empire

200

This is the country where the guitar was invented

What is Spain

300

This band rose to fame in Pasadena, California primarily thanks to the incredible skill of their guitarist, Eddie.

Who is Van Halen

300

This is the man that wrote Johnny B. Goode

Who is Chuck Berry

300

This is the technical term for tone. It has a strange pronunciation.

What is Timbre

300

This is the stage-name alter ego of world famous pop star Beyonce

Who is Sasha Fierce

300

This is the range of human hearing in hertz

What 20hz-20,000hz

400

This band had major hits like 'It Ends Tonight' and 'Move Along'.

Who are the All American Rejects

400

This was the record the studio where Elvis recorded his biggest hits in Memphis, TN

What is Sun studio

400

This is the quality we aim to improve when we turn things up and down in a bandlab project in order to have a better sound overall

What is 'balance'

400

This composer is often referenced due to his unfortunate life experience: he went deaf.

Who is Beethoven

400

This man is often credited with the invention of the electric guitar.

Who is Les Paul

500

This band rocketed to stardom in their teenage years with the hit album "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out".

Who is Panic! at the Disco

500

This band of doo-wop singers recorded the song Earth Angel

Who are The Penguins

500

This is the smoothest form of a wave and gives a pure tone when played

What is a 'Sine Wave'

500

This famous composer and musician is known as the 'Father of the Symphony' and had students such as Mozart, Beethoven, and countless other notable figures in music history

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Who is Franz Joseph Haydn

500

This man was the first known person recorded in history to notate music on paper. He made a system using 4 lines and 3 spaces.

Who is Guido Di Arezzo