Instrument Names
World Drumming Factoids
Composition Components
Takadimi - Compound
Takadimi - Simple
100

This instrument is a long wood-based tube that you use your mouth to make sounds found in Australia.

What is the Didgeridoo?

100

We watched the Okee Dokee Brothers interview a musician who demonstrated making a SNARE-LIKE sound by blowing into this item and scraping his nails on it.

What is a PAPER BAG?

100

These two numbers are placed at the beginning help a musician understand how to play the number of beats in each measure.

What is a TIME SIGNATURE?

100

This is the "Beat" set of syllables

What is TA?

100

These are the three categories of rhythms, going from one sound to four sounds. 

What are BEAT? DIVISION, and SUBDIVISION?

200

These three drums are what we've used to perform with in the classroom throughout the quarter.

What are the Tubano, Djembe and Conga?

200

One of the three Drums in our class has "short legs" that won't require being leaned or off the ground to be heard better. 

What is the TUBANO?

200

These horizontal lines are used to set up a rhythmic composition, and can be 1 or more systems long. 

What is a SYSTEM?

200

This is the Division of the syllables in Compound Form.

What is TA-KI-DU?

200

This is a subdivision in simple form that omits the second syllable.

What is TA-__-DI-MI?

300

This instrument uses a double-sided stick to play on its head and has a hand grip behind the actual drum for versatility.

What is the Bodhran?

300

This process is where we sit around the room facing each other in order to engage in musical activities.

What is a DRUM CIRCLE?

300

These vertical lines are used to separate beats into organized measures.  

What are BAR LINES?

300

This is the Subdivision of the Syllables in Compound form if you leave off the Last Syllable.

What is TA-VA-KI-VI-DU?

300

This is the division of the syllables in Simple Form where the first beat is omitted.

What is ___-DI?

400

The TABLA from India is a combination of TWO (2) types of drums together, which make a higher and lower pitched sound. 

What are the Dayan and Bayan?

400

From our Scavenger hunt, day 1 - these are the two types of resources we use to make instruments.

What are AUTHENTIC AND SYNTHETIC?

400

This particular set of lines tells a musician where the end of the music is or stops. 

What are DOUBLE BAR LINES?

400

This is the subdivision of syllables in Compound Form when you leave out the third syllable. 

What is TA-VA-__-VI-DU-MU?

400

This is what it sounds like when you say the Beat, followed by division, them subdivision, then division again.

What is TA, TA-DI, TA-KA-DI-MI, TA-DI?

500

Name four percussion instruments commonly used in CUBA.

What are the Congas, Bongos, Maracas and Timbales? 

500

This instrument comes from West Africa in Senegal, and is played in your hands with your fingers or thumbs.

What is the MBIRA?

500

Symbols that are used to play sounds and patterns are called...

What are NOTES?

500

This is the division of syllables in Compound Form when you leave out the First syllablle.

What is __-KI-DU?

500

This icon in music is used to show where sounds CAN occur, but are not heard. 

What is a REST?