General Concepts
Percussion
Strings
Woodwinds
Brass
100
The use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument.
What is embouchure?
100
Rolls, Diddles, Flams, and Drags are the four main categories of this type of fundamental exercise compiled by the Percussive Arts Society in 1984.
What are rudiments?
100
The open notes on this string instrument, from lowest to highest, are:
G, D, A, E
What is a violin?
100
The oboe and English horn utilize this method of vibrating air.
What is a double-reed?
100
The two primary ways that brass players change notes on their instruments.
What is changing air direction/speed and changing valve combinations or positions?
200
The pitch tendency for brass players when the temperature on stage gets warmer.
What is sharper?
200
This snare drum rudiment notated below:
What is a flam?
200
The open note on the highest string of this instrument is G.
What is a bass?
200
The clarinet uses this method of vibrating air.
What is a single reed?
200
The written open notes below are for this brass instrument:
What is the trumpet?
300
The pitch tendency for string players when the temperature on stage gets warmer.
What is flatter?
300
This member of the idiophone family of percussion instruments:
What is a triangle?
300
The open notes on this string instrument are the same pitch classes as the cello (up one octave).
What is a viola?
300
This woodwind instrument vibrates air by blowing across a tone hole and splitting the air stream across a hard edge.
What is the flute?
300
The written open notes below are for these two brass instruments:
What is the trombone and the euphonium?
400
This musical term describes the most separated quality of articulation.
What is staccato?
400
This member of the membranophone family of percussion instruments:
What is a bass drum?
400
The open notes on this string instrument, from lowest to highest, are:
What is a cello?
400
Flat chin, corners forward, teeth on top of mouthpiece, tongue in an “EE” position, and a 30-degree mouthpiece angle are the checkpoints for evaluating the correct embouchure on which woodwind instrument?
What is the clarinet?
400
The missing valve combination from below, listed in order from shortest to longest:
OPEN
2
1
1 - 2
_______
1 - 3
1 - 2 - 3
What is 2 - 3?
500
This musical term describes the most connected quality of articulation.
What is legato?
500
This member of the aerophone family of percussion instruments:
What is a slide whistle?
500
This French word means separate bows, used for notes not connected by slurs.
What is detache?
500
The articulation syllable you would recommend for your wind section to use a very smooth, legato articulation in a passage of music.
What is duuu?
500
Your trumpet student should adjust the tuning slide in this direction if she was playing sharp compared to the rest of a musical group.
What is pull out?
600
This musical term describes a heavily accented articulation.
What is marcato?
600
This member of the chordophone family of percussion instruments:
What is a piano?
600
The bowing indicated in the first measure of this violin excerpt:
What is an upbow?
600
Beginners should start on this first in order to focus on developing the proper embouchure, tone production, air support, and articulation technique.
What is the "small instrument"?
600
The first note of this concert pitch music, transposed to written pitch for the French horn.
What is G4 (g minor)?
700
Translated from the Italian word for “held,” his musical term describes a full-length articulation, which could also be slightly louder than surrounding music.
What is tenuto?
700
The center of the bar, over the resonators:
What is the best place to strike a keyboard instrument?
700
The slur on the eighth notes in measure three indicates that these notes are to be played on one bow in this direction:
What is an upbow?
700
The basic six-tone-hole scale on the flute, oboe, and saxophone begins with this written note.
What is D?
700
The slide position for the first note for trombone in this passage.
What is 6th position?
800
The direction of pitch level as a tube is elongated.
What is lower (or flatter)?
800
This part of the drumstick:
What is the tip?
800
This part of the bow:
What is the frog?
800
The only woodwind instrument that regularly reads music in the bass clef.
What is the bassoon?
800
This mute for trumpet:
What is a straight mute?