Fingerboard Geography
Bow
Time
Key
Composer
100

Violins and Violas - what is the name of 1st finger in 3rd position on the A string?

What is D?

100

What is my bow speed on a whole note if the tempo is Adagio?

What is slow?

100

How many beats would a half note get in 3/4 time?

What is 2 beats?

100

What major key has no sharps or flats in the key signature?

What is C Major?

100

How many pieces has Mrs. Hanson composed?

What is zero?

200

Cellos - what position would you be in if you were playing an A with 1st finger on the D string?

What is 4th position?

200

What lane do I play in for ff?

What is lane one?

200

How many 16th notes equal one beat in 4/4 time?

What is 4?

200

What major key has F# and C# in the key signature?

What is D Major?

200

How many symphonies did Ludwig van Beethoven write?

What is 9?

300

Basses - what note is 1st finger in 1/2 position on the E string?

What is F?

300

What part of the bow would I be in to play pp?

What is the tip?

300

How many beats would a dotted half note equal in 6/8?

What is 3?

300

What is the relative minor of C Major?

What is A minor?

300

How many children did Johann Sebastian Bach have?

What is 20?

400

Cellos - what is the name of 1st finger in 3rd position on the G string?

What is C?

400

What part of the bow would I be in to play spicatto?

What is the balance point?

400

How many beats are in a 12/8 time signature and what kind of note would be equal to one beat?

What is 12 beats and an eighth note equals one beat?

400

What are the names of the flats in the key of Bb Major?

What are Bb and Eb?

400

What Austrian child prodigy wrote Symphony No. 29?

Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

500

Violins - what position would you be in if you played C with a 1st finger on the E string?

What is 5th position?

500

If I am increasing my bow speed and changing from lane 2 to lane 4, what am I doing?

What is making a crescendo?

500

If a measure had 2 eighth notes, 2 quarter notes, and 2 half notes, and the quarter note equals one beat, what would be the time signature?

What is 7/4?

500

What are the names of the 7 sharps in order?

What is F#, C#, G#, D#, A#, E# and B#?

500

We played two pieces by what Soviet composer?

Who is Dmitri Shostakovich?