Music Fundamentals
This drum occurs on 2 and 4, and this drum occurs on 1 and 3.
What is the Snare drum and Bass drum?
This musical instrument was created for the March King making tubas march-able.
What is the Sousaphone?
A fiddle is made up of these, whereas a violin has strings.
What are strangs?
The amount of bars or measures that make up the blues.
What is 12?
Though many people think this genre is jazz, it is actually considered classical.
What is Ragtime?
A scale made up of 5 notes claimed by scientists to be found in nature.
What is the pentatonic scale?
Frank Sinatra's group of friends.
What is the Ratpack?
Two or more notes sang/played at the same time.
What is harmony?
This man was known as the March King.
Who was John Philip Sousa?
This steel guitar was first made popular here.
What is Hawaii?
This artist played the 12 string guitar and allegedly sung himself out of jail.
Who is Leadbelly?
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald were known for improvising their vocals in this style.
What is scatting?
I am the amount of strings a mandolin has.
What is 8?
Trumpet players used this by putting it in their bell to get a "waah" effect.
What is a mute?
The term for volume in music.
What is dynamics?
Who is Ernest Hogan?
A vocal technique where a singer quickly switches between chest voice and falsetto.
What is Yodeling?
This artist sold his soul to the devil.
Who is Robert Johnson?
Two or more steady rhythms being played against each other.
What are polyrhythms?
This beat created by Buddy Bolden changed the landscape of music forever.
What is the Big Four?
This instrument is made by combination of instruments and different cultures in Congo Square, New Orleans, LI
What is the drum set?
In pop songs, this part of the song happens multiple times and the lyrics never change.
What is the chorus?
This man wrote 2 Operas and 44 Rags.
Who is Scott Joplin?
You knew if you played this large venue in Tennessee, you made it.
What is the Grand Ole' Opry?
This guitar was BB King's favorite, he even named it.
Who is Lucielle?
This genre is known as the biggest game of telephone.
What is folk?
20hz to 20,000hz
What is the human hearing range?
This musician was so unliked that many people decided not to show up his funeral.
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
This term is used for notes that are off the beat.
What is syncopation?
Ragtime originated from musicians trying to play this genre on piano.
What are Marches?
This man was named the King of Western Swing after the original King killed his spouse.
Who is Bob Wills?
This early country guitar player would slap his instrument like a drum.
Who is Charley Patton?
A pentatonic scale with a #4 (or b5).
What is the Blues Scale?
These three chords make up the blues.
What are the I, IV, and V chords?
This NYC location was the center of published music in the United States of America.
What is Tin Pan Alley?