Notes
Music Symbols
Music Styles
Music Vocab
Rests
100

I get 4 beats.

Whole Note

100
This consists of a double bar line and two dots, which tells the reader to play again.

Repeat sign

100

A popular genre defined by stylized rhythmic beats and spoken or chanted vocals.

Hip Hop

100

The overall structure or plan of a musical composition.

Form

100

I get a quarter of a beat of rest.

Sixteenth note rest

200

I get two beats.

Half Note

200

The high frequency instruments read in this clef. 

Treble Clef

200

A broad genre of popular music that developed from "rock and roll" in the United States and the United Kingdom during the late 1940s and 1950s

Rock

200

A repeating pulse that you naturally tap your foot or nod your head to, much like a ticking clock or a heartbeat.

Beat

200

I get a whole beat of rest.

Quarter note rest

300

I get one beat in 4/4.

Quarter Note

300

The low frequency instrument read music in this clef.

Bass Clef

300

A unique style of music that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans in the early 20th century, defined mainly by spontaneous improvisation and complex rhythms.

Jazz

300

The main tune or singable part of a song that you easily remember and hum along with.

Melody

300

I get two beats of rest.

Half note rest

400

I get half a beat.

Eighth Note

400

This at the end of a measure indicates the end of a section of music.

Double bar line

400

A genre of American popular music that originated in the rural Southern and Western United States in the early 20th century.

Country 

400

The simultaneous sounding of multiple notes or pitches to create chords and chord progressions that support a melody.

Harmony

400

I get half a beat of rest.

Eighth note rest

500

I get a quarter of a beat.

Sixteenth Note

500

The five lines and four spaces that music is notated on.

Music staff

500

A broad term for formal Western art music rooted in written traditions, spanning from roughly the 11th century to the present, or a specific specific historical period from 1750 to 1820.

Classical

500

Any visual system, such as sheet music, used to represent musical sounds and performance instructions.

Notation

500

I get four beats of rest.

Whole note rest