Rhythm
Treble Clef Notes
Bass Clef Notes
Music Instruments
Music Fun Facts
100

This rhythm has a filled in note head and a stem with no flags, and typically lasts for just one beat.

What is a quarter note?

100

The first (bottom) line of the staff.

What is E?

100

The first space on the staff.

What is A?

100

A most famous instrument, played by pushing down white or black keys with one's fingers.

What is the piano?

100

The vibrations through the air that reach your eardrum.

What are sounds?

200

This rhythm has two filled in note heads and stems that have one bar connecting them. They total one beat together.

What is two eighth notes?

200

The third space of the staff.

What is C?

200

The third line on the staff.

What is D?

200

The highest-sounding instrument in the string family.

What is the violin?

200

This form of dance became popular in the Classical period (1750-1820 AD), and involves dancers spinning, leaping, and moving on the tips of their toes.

What is ballet?

300

This rhythm looks like a hat on top of the third line of the staff, and the silence it indicates lasts for two beats.

What is a half rest?

300

The top line of the staff.

What is F?

300

The fourth space on the staff.

What is G?

300

A medium-low sounding brass instrument, played by moving a slide.

What is the trombone?

300

The special term for a song that gets stuck in your head.

What is an earworm?

400
This many half notes equal 6 beats in total.

What is 3 (half notes)?

400

The space just below the staff.

What is D?

400

The first space right above the staff.

What is B?

400

A double-reed instrument very similar to the clarinet, but with a brighter sound and rounded bell.

What is the oboe?

400

Trumpets, trombones, tubas, and most saxophones are made up of this metal made up of copper and zinc.

What is brass?

500

This many eighth notes equals 5 beats.

What is 10?

500

The ledger (not a part of the staff but extra above or below) line right above the staff.

What is A?

500

The first ledger (not a part of the staff, but extra above or below) line above the staff.

What is (middle) C?

500

Another name for the instrument that is made of wooden bars and metal tubes below them, is arranged similarly to the piano, and is commonly called a xylophone.

What is the marimba?

500

This material is what the stringy part of the *bow* of a violin, cello, or upright bass is made of.

What is horse hair?