Playing Guitar & Piano
Clue: This is the name of the thin plastic piece held between your thumb and index finger to strike the strings.
What is a pick?
This is the total number of beats a single whole note receives in standard four-four time.
What is four beats?
These items are any portable objects handled by actors during a performance, such as a book, a cup, or a sword.
What are props?
Red, yellow, and blue make up this group of colors, which cannot be created by mixing any other colors together.
What are primary colors?
Drummers use these wooden tools to strike the drums and cymbals, which come in different sizes like 5A or 7N.
What are drum sticks?
These metal ridges embedded along the guitar neck mark where you place your fingers to change the pitch.
What are frets?
These two numbers stacked on top of each other at the very beginning of a piece of sheet music tell you how many beats are in each measure.
What is a time signature?
This is the area of the theatre completely out of sight of the audience, where actors wait for their cues to enter.
What is backstage or the wings?
This element of art refers to how a surface feels to the touch, or how it looks like it would feel if it were real.
What is texture?
Played with a foot pedal, this is the largest drum in a rock drum kit that provides the deep, heavy thump on beats 1 and 3.
What is the Bass or Kick drum?
On a piano keyboard, this musical note can always be found immediately to the left of the group of two black keys.
What is C?
This musical term describes the speed or pace of a song, usually measured in beats per minute (BPM).
If a director tells an actor to move "Downstage," the actor should walk toward this part of the theatre.
What is the audience or the front of the stage?
When creating a 3D illusion on a flat piece of paper, artists use a specific point on the horizon line where all parallel lines seem to meet, known by this name.
What is the vanishing point?
This component of a drum kit features two cymbals facing each other that can be opened or closed using a foot pedal.
What is the hi-hat?
On a guitar, this is the specific, repeating arrangement of downward and upward strokes used by the rhythm guitarist to establish a song's groove.
What is the strumming pattern?
This is the musical term for three or more different notes played at the exact same time to create harmony, such as pressing multiple keys on a piano at once.
What is a chord?
Stage Left and Stage Right are always determined by the perspective of this specific person on stage.
What is the actor (when facing the audience)?
This art term describes the area around and between the main subjects of an artwork, often left blank or filled with background
What is negative space?
This is the name of the two smaller drums usually mounted directly above the bass drum, which are frequently used for pitch variation during drum fills.
What are the toms?
When tuning a standard 6-string guitar from the thickest string to the thinnest, this is the order of the notes.
What is E,A,D,G,B,E?
This is the musical term for the volume of a song—such as forte for loud or piano for soft—which adds emotional contrast to a rock band's performance. This word starts with the letter D.
What are dynamics?
This is the term for the deliberate mapping out and planning of where actors move and stand on stage during a scene.
What is blocking?
Watercolor, acrylic, oil, and clay are all examples of this general art term, which refers to the specific material or substance an artist uses to create their work.
What is a medium?
When a drummer briefly breaks away from the main groove at the end of a musical phrase to transition into a chorus, they are playing one of these.
What is a fill?