MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC

Musical Instruments

100

This woodwind instrument is played by holding it sideways and blowing into an aperture hole.

A Flute

200

This instrument has four strings and comes originally from Portuguese immigrants in Hawaii. (Small Guitar)

The Ukulele

300

This instrument comes in many different colors. It is a long tube that plays one pitch depending on how long or short it is. We have used them in class before!!

A Boomwhacker

400

This percussion instrument is made of metal bars, is played by a set of rubber mallets, and is shaped like a piano keyboard.

The Xylophone

500

This instrument is a percussion and a string instrument. It's sounds are created by small hammers hitting the strings inside. It has 88 buttons that are pressed and 3 pedals to control the sound.

The Grand Piano

600

This instrument is one that you carry with you all the time. It can make pitches high and low. It needs to be warmed up for the best sound possible. This instrument sounds different depending on each musician who uses it.

The Voice!

Pitch

100

This has 5 lines and 4 spaces to put notes on.

Staff

200

This note is the second line on the Alto Clef

E

300

This is the note on the 3rd space of the treble clef.

C

400

This note is the third space on the Alto Clef

B

500

This note is the second line on the Bass Clef

F

600

This note is the fifth line on the Bass Clef

G

Notes

100

This type of note receives 1 beat of sound

Quarter Note

200

This type of note receives 4 beats of sound

Whole note

300

This note receives 2 beats of sound 

Half Note

400

This note receives 1/4 of a beat.

Sixteenth Note

500

Two of these notes equal one beat of sound 

Eighth Notes

600

This note has three flags 

Thirty-Second Note

Key Signatures

100

This Key Signature has two flats

B flat

200

This Key Signature has 3 sharps

A Major

300

This Key Signature has 4 flats

Key of A Flat Major

400

This Key Signature has 4 sharps

Key of E Major

500

This Key Signature is the relative minor for D Major

Key of B Minor

600

This Key Signature is the relative minor of E Major

Key of C# Minor

Music Math

100

One quarter note plus one quarter note.

2 beats

200

One half note plus one half note.

4 beats

300

One quarter note plus one half note.

3 beats

400

One dotted quarter note + One Quarter note + Two Sixteenth notes

3 beats

500

One half note + 3 Sixteenth notes =

2.75 beats

600

One Half Note + Two Sixteenth Notes + One Eighth Note + One Sixteenth Rest + Two Thirty-Second Notes

3.5 Beats