Band Instruments
This instrument was created by Adolphe Sax to make improvements on things he didn't like about the clarinet.
What is the saxophone?
These tell you to repeat a section.
What are repeat signs?
This is the name for the 5 lines and 4 spaces music is written on.
What is the staff?
This piece includes stomping and section solos throughout.
What is The Grenadiers?
This note value is twice the value of a half note, being worth 4 beats in 4/4 time.
What is a whole note?
This instrument uses a slide to create different notes.
What is the trombone?
These dots below notes tell you to play them short and separated.
What is staccato?
This is the name for a symbol that tells what notes are on what lines and spaces.
What is a clef?
This piece has many accidentals and a 1st and 2nd ending.
What is Sing, Sing, Sing?
This note is half the value of a whole note = 2 beats in 4/4 time.
What is a half note?
This woodwind instrument is tricky to hold, and is the only woodwind instrument that doesn't use reeds.
What is the flute?
This symbol (<) tells you to play a note louder than the notes around it.
What is an accent?
What are accidentals?
Notes played outside of the key signatures (sharps, flats, naturals)
This piece starts and ends with a chorale section, and has a time signature change.
What is Golden Fleece?
This note is the one indicated by the bottom number in 4/4 time and is half the value of a half note.
What is a quarter note?
This percussion instrument is one of the first instrument percussionists learn and the only non-pitched instrument that all of them get to play.
What is the snare drum?
These curved lines between two notes tell you to play them smoothly; for all instruments except trombone and percussion, you simply change the fingering while continuing the airstream.
What are slurs?
This word tells you to play a piece fast.
What is allegro?
This piece includes triplets in the percussion part.
What is Star Wars?
This rhythm features two equal sounds in one beat, and the notes are beamed together.
What is an eighth note pair?
Name ALL of the woodwind instruments in the band.
Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
These tell us how loud or quiet to play our music.
What are dynamics?
This is the term for when multiple notes are played at once.
What is harmony?
This piece features a low brass/low woodwind solo throughout. There are also eighth rests in the trumpet and flute part.
What is Don't Stop Believin?
How do you count (4) sixteenth notes?
1 e + a