Music Terms
On the piano, this symbol next to a note means you play the note directly to the LEFT of the written note.
Flat
Please clap this rhythm:
♫♩♫♩
Ti-ti Ta Ti-ti Ta
"Why'd you have to go and make things so" hard for me to understand? I'm JUST trying to say this song was one of the most popular songs in 2002, the same year Mr. Velez was born!
Complicated - Avril Lavigne
I hope you have high, high hopes for the living after listening to a later selection from this "band"... even though that song came out when it was only a one man band.
Panic! At The Disco
It's TIIIIIIIIIME!!!! Mariah Carey is defrosting so she can be ready to sing this popular Christmas song.
All I Want for Christmas is You
When going over chords for writing the songs, I called THESE chords "happy".
Major Chords
Please clap this rhythm:
♫♫♫♩
ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti ta
Sometimes all I think about is you, late nights in the middle of June. This song reached peak popularity in 2022.
Heatwaves - Glass Animals
I know that I can't take no more, and that certainly ain't no lie. I do genuinely like the popular 90s-2000s boy band that performed this song, even if they wished to see me out that door, baby Bye Bye Bye.
NSYNC
Tyler the Creator has had a lot of popular songs, this one in particular being most popular from his album CHROMAKOPIA in 2024 with a LOT of features.
Sticky
4/4, 3/4, 6/8. These are examples of the numbers at the beginning of any piece of music that go under this name.
Time Signature
What word do you use to speak a sixteenth note?
ti-ri-ti-ri
This song title translates to "Slowly", and was the top song of 2017.
Despacito
I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want! I want you to tell me the name of the band most popular for those lyrics in their hit song, "Wannabe".
For DOUBLE points, name TWO members.
Spice Girls.
Scary Spice, Sporty Spice, Baby Spice, Ginger Spice, Posh Spice
No, Ice Spice is not an option.
Sia's most popular song shares a name with an overhead light fixture.
Chandelier
All of the letters in the spaces of the treble clef spell out this word:
FACE
In "Rhythm Cafe", what word was used for the quarter note?
Chips
"What would a mix of country and rap sound like?" is what I would be saying if this top song from 2019 didn't exist, later featuring a solo by Billy Ray Cyrus.
Old Town Road - Lil Nas X
"We're getting the band back together!" Zayn Malik just rejoined this boy band most popular in the early 2010s.
One Direction
Alex Warren wrote this song, which was considered the top song of 2025.
Ordinary
This mnemonic device (PEMDAS is a mnemonic device) helps us remember what notes fall on the lines of the BASS clef. I will take ANY sentence you give as long as it uses the correct letters.
Giraffe Babies Don't Forget Africa (GBDFA)
In "Rhythm Cafe", what word was used to describe the TRIPLET note?
Strawberry
You know, you really didn't have to cut me off. I don't like being interrupted, especially because I'm trying to tell you about this song most popular in 2012, the same year most of the 8th graders were born!
Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye
This boy band rivaled Huntrix in the hit movie KPOP Demon Hunters, and turned out to be demons in the end.
Saja Boys
Who's calling my phone? And WHERE is the function? What song am I referencing?
NOKIA