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Tearless Technique
Naming Notes
Wonderful Words
Nuts and Bolts
Scales and Chords
100
A curved line over or under a group of notes.
What is a slur?
100
We are the names of the line notes in the Bass Staff from bottom to top.
What is G - B - D - F - A?
100
I sit on the 3rd line and look like a hat.
What is a half rest?
100
I am the opposite of legato and am marked with a dot over or under my note.
What is staccato?
100
The name for a 5 note scale.
What is a pentascale?
200
Use me with your foot to connect the sounds.
What is the damper pedal?
200
I am 2 lines above the bass staff.
What is an E?
200
Marks in the music that tell me to play loud or soft.
What are dynamic marks?
200
I am the pattern for a pentascale (5-note scale).
What is K W W H W?
200
I am a minor chord that becomes this if you raise my middle note 1/2 step.
What is a major chord?
300
A form in music that has an A Section and a B Section.
What is AB form or binary form?
300
I get one and one-half beats in 4/4 time.
What is a dotted quarter note?
300
A word used to describe chords played one note at a time, going up or down the keyboard. (It comes from the Italian word for "harp."
What are arpeggios?
300
I am a note or rest with one flag.
What is an eighth note or eighth rest?
300
We are the 3 primary chords in a major scale.
What are the I, IV, and V7 chords?
400
The 3 positions for triads.
What is a root position, 1st Inversion, and 2nd Inversion?
400
3 eighth notes that equal a quarter note.
What are triplets?
400
The Italian term for "very loud."
What is fortissimo?
400
Short lines over or under the staff used to extend the staff.
What are ledger lines?
400
I am the major key that has 2 sharps.
What is the key of D Major?
500
An instrumental piece with several movements (sometimes called a "baby sonata.")
What is a sonatina?
500
Notes and rests that have 2 flags.
What are 16th notes and 16th rests?
500
A short musical pattern which, when repeated on another pitch, is called a sequence.
What is a motive?
500
A small note with a slash, that is played quickly into the note that follows.
What is a grace note?
500
I am the relative minor scale for F Major.
What is d minor?