Music Theory
When the start and end points of a scale are different but they share the same key.
What is relative keys?
The first key you learn in a traditional orchestra class, containing two sharps.
What is D Major?
Without this object, it would be hard to let the show go on.
What is the Bow?
Despised amongst the senior orchestras, this sight reading technique allows musicians to practice bowing and fingering silently.
What is ghost bowing?
An alternate name for the violin.
What is a fiddle?
The title of rhythms that place emphasis on the off/weak beats.
What is syncopation?
The Parallel Minor to G major.
What is G minor?
Needed in parts of music that changes the timbre, such as the lullaby of "Irish Suite", this object is so small some may call it cute.
What is a Mute?
The only instrument not tuned in Perfect 5ths.
What is the double bass?
An alternative name for the Viola.
What is the Middle Fiddle?
The top part of the time signature.
How many beats in a bar?
The relative major to F# minor.
What is A major?
What is Harmonic?
Also known as the C clef, and freaks out other members of the orchestra.
What is Alto Cleff?
As opposed to fractions, it's what violas are measured in.
What are inches?
What kind of note gets the beat?
The key with 5 sharps.
What is B major?
Our phones often distract us from this important part of being a musician that helps us improve.
What is Practice?
The think that violins and violas don't have, but cellos and basses do.
What are endpins?
The non traditional name of this part of the bow is "heel."
What is the frog?
The intervals of a major scale.
What is whole whole half whole whole whole half?
All the sharps of C# major in Order.
What is F# C# G# D# A# E# B#?
While typically the sign to tell you to jump from one place in the music to another, it easily gets confused with the term col lengo or to use the stick part of the bows on the string.
What is Dal Sengo?
An alternative to wooden bows that is more durable.
What is Carbon Fiber?
An alternate name for the double bass (besides string bass.)
What is contrabass? or What is upright bass? or What is doghouse bass? or What is Bull Fiddle?