Basics & Keyboard
A division of music separated by bar lines.
What is a measure?
A note that is played for its normal length plus half its length.
What is a dotted note?
The standard major key signature, one that doesn't have sharps or flats.
What is the C major key signature?
This natural minor key signature has no sharps or flats.
What is A natural minor?
Several notes, usually three or four, played at the same time.
What are chords?
A sharp, double sharp, flat, double flat, or natural, that modifies a note.
What is an Accidental?
This line connects consecutive, smaller notes such as eighth notes or sixteenth notes.
What is a beam?
A line that is added above or below the staff to indicate what note should be played.
What is a ledger line?
This natural minor key signature has four sharps: C#, D#, F#, and G#
What is C# natural minor?
A chord with three notes.
What is a triad?
Also called common time, this time signature has four beats in a measure where the quarter note gets the beat.
What is 4/4 time?
Italian musical term for gradually getting slower.
Notes with different names that sound the same. For example: F# and Gb or B# and C.
What are enharmonic pitches?
This type of minor scale does not have its 2nd or 6th notes and adds a new note halfway between the 4th and 5th notes.
What is a blues scale?
This chord is played on the 5th of the scale and has an added note a third above.
What is a dominant seventh (V7)?
This part of the keyboard plays sharp or flat notes.
What are black keys?
The musical distance between two pitches.
What is an interval?
This major key signature has three flats: Ab, Bb, and Eb.
What is Eb major key signature?
This natural minor scale has the following notes: Bb, C, Db, F, Gb, and Bb.
What are the notes of the Bb natural minor pentatonic scale?
This cadence is also called the amen cadence and moves from a IV chord to a I chord.
What is a Plagal cadence?
or
What is the Mixolydian mode?
Alto clef and Tenor clef.
What are the C clefs?
The name for an interval with a difference between the two notes is a fifth with eight half steps.
What is an Augmented 5th?
The name for a system where notes are called do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do.
What is solfege?
This harmonic minor scale has seven flats, but Gb is raised up a half step to G natural, so it is played like there are six flats.
What is Ab harmonic minor scale?
6/5 , 4/3, 4/2
What are the markings for the dominant seventh (V7) chord inversions?