Lines
Five lines and four spaces where notes and rests are written
What is a staff?
The symbols at the beginning of your music, that tell you what notes are on the staff
What are clefs?
The note receives one beat of sound.
What is a Quarter Note?
The highness or lowness of a note.
What is pitch?
A diagram that shows you how to play each note including which fingers to press down and where the note is on the staff.
What is a fingering chart?
Lines that divide the music staff into chunks
What are bar lines?
The numbers at the beginning of your music that tell you how many beats are in a measure
What is time signature?
This note receives two beats of sound.
Represents the sound. Appears on lines and spaces to show letter name and pitch.
What is a note?
A sign that lowers the pitch a half step.
What is a flat?
The chunk of the staff that is created by two bar lines
What is a measure?
A final bar line with two dots in front of it, telling you to play that music again
What is a repeat sign?
This note receives four beats of sound.
What is a Whole Note?
Represents silence on the music staff.
What is a rest?
A sign that raises the pitch a half step
What is a sharp?
Two bar lines that indicate the end of the music
What is Final Bar Line?
A half circle with a dot in the middle that tells you to hold a note longer than it's given value
These notes receive half a beat of sound. Two of them would equal one full beat.
What are Eighth Notes?
The pulse of the music that stays consistent in every measure.
What is the beat?
A sign that cancels a sharp or flat and returns a pitch back to normal
What is a natural?
Small lines that extend the staff for notes that are written above or below the staff lines
What are ledger lines?
How the tongue and the air begin the note or how the stick/mallet hits the instrument(Example: staccato, accent, etc.
What is articulation?
This note receives three beats of sound.
What is a Dotted Half Note?
A pattern of short or long sounds and silences that fit within a steady beat.
What is rhythm?
Signs placed on the left side of a note that alter it's pitch
What are accidentals?