Ukulele
People in Music
Instruments
Music Terms
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100
The ukulele has this number of strings.
What is four?
100
This music educator played trumpet throughout high school and college before becoming a music teacher at an University Place elementary school.
Who is Mr. Patterson?
100
Instruments in the string family, such as the bass guitar, produce sound by vibrating these.
What are strings?
100
This type of note equals one beat in 4/4 time signatures.
What is a quarter note?
100
This piece of music was the first piece performed at the Evergreen Veteran's Day Concert and usually also opens sporting events.
What is the National Anthem/Star Spangled Banner?
200
The ukulele is a member of this instrument family.
What is the string family?
200
This famous jazz pianist was also a well-respected music teacher and composer.
Who is Mary Lou Williams?
200
Mallets, drum sticks, and your hands are all examples of these, devices used to produce sound by hitting or beating percussion instruments.
What are beaters?
200
Any group of people who perform music together, such as a choir or a band, are known as this.
What is an ensemble?
200
A person who writes music is known as this.
What is a composer?
300
Strumming with the 3rd finger on the 3rd fret of string 1, as pictured, produces this chord.
What is a C Major chord?
300
This composer is best known for his work in film, writing the scores for movies like Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Jurassic Park.
Who is John Williams?
300
The trumpet, trombone, French horn, euphonium, and tuba belong to this family of instruments.
What are brass instruments?
300
The invention of this was a massive step forward for music recordings.
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What are LP records?
300
This woodwind instrument used to be taught to 3rd and 4th grade students at Evergreen before we got our ukuleles.
What is the recorder?
400
These parts of the ukulele, as pictured, as known as this.
What is the bridge and/or saddle?
400
This jazz trumpet player and singer also enjoyed fairly successful acting career, despite being arrested when he was only 11.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
400
Instruments that produce sound by pushing air over a reed or sound hole, such as flutes or saxophones, are part of this family.
What are woodwind instruments?
400
This scale is often used for teaching musicians how to improvise or solo, especially in blues, rock, and jazz.
What is the blues scale?
400
This fifth family of instruments uses electronic signals to produce sound and includes instruments like the synthesizer, digital piano, and otomatone.
What are electronic instruments?
500
Playing an F Major chord, with the correct fingering, should use these two fingers.
What are fingers 1 and 2?
500
Sometimes referred to as "The Amazing Musical Monk," Guido de Arezzo is responsible for inventing these key inventions to help him teach singing.
What are solfege and/or the music staff?
500
This medieval French string instrument produces sound by vibrating strings with a cranked wheel.
What is the hurdy gurdy?
500
This person's job is to stand in front of a music ensemble and wave a baton to direct the musicians.
What is a conductor?
500
This jazz trumpet player is best known for composing jazz standards such as Salt Peanuts and A Night in Tunisia.
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?