Show:
Jazz Band
All-County
Atlanta
Instruments
Kyzerizing
100
A dance song from the 1960's recorded by Chubby Checker.
What is "The Twist?"
100
The only audition requirement where everyone had exactly 25 notes to play.............slurred.
What is the chromatic scale?
100
The Northwest Atlanta Mariott.
What was the name of our hotel?
100
The only two instruments in the band that use DOUBLE REEDS.
What are the oboe and the bassoon?
100
The musical act of raising and lowering the volume of music in an organized fashion.
What are DYNAMICS?
200
The group of instruments composed of the drumset, the bass guitar, the piano, and, often, the guitar.
What is the rhythm section?
200
The largest number of points awarded for anything played during the audition, awarded for sightreading performance.
What is 40 points?
200
A series of museums and exhibits in downtown Atlanta highlighting the civil rights movement.
What is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-violent social change?
200
The name of at least one of the composers of our Atlanta concert band pieces.
Who are Elliot Del Borgo, John Edmondson, and Brian Balmages?
200
The American musical style that requires great exaggeration of articulation.
What is jazz?
300
The only section with three different types of the same instrument that all use the same fingerings.
What is the saxophone section?
300
The actual number of 2010---2011 Knox band students who performed on stage at the all-county concert.
What is 27?
300
The world's largest drive-in restaurant also known as "the Greasy V!"
What is the Varsity?
300
The lowest sounding brass instrument.
What is the Tuba?
300
The physical exercise of inhaling and exhaling correctly to produce a correct tone quality.
What is breath support?
400
The only Knox jazz band soloist in history that wore a hat during a performance.
Who was Ryan Leonard?
400
The site of the last 6 Rowan Middle School all-county band auditions.
What is Knox Middle School?
400
The roller coaster at Six-Flags Over Georgia where participants were placed in PRONE POSITION before beginning the ride.
What is "the Superman ride?"
400
A part of the drumset that uses two small cymbals that are connected by a rod.
What is the "hi-hat?"
400
Musicians create this when they listen and adjust to the volume and tone of their fellow performers.
What is balance and blend?
500
The musical feature that the Atlanta judges criticized the most.
What is articulation?
500
The special recognition given to the person with the highest audition score on a given instrument.
What is first chair?
500
The name of the bus company that was written on the sides of both Atlanta buses.
What is Cross Roads?
500
A woodwind instrument that uses almost the exact same fingerings for it's "high notes" as the saxophone.
What is the clarinet?
500
One of the most important musical features that is produced by students performing their parts exactly together.
What is precision?