Rhythm
Instrument Families
Vocabulary
Instruments
100

This note has 1 beat.

What is a quarter note?

100

This string instrument plays the highest notes.

What is a violin?

100

This is the speed of music.

What is tempo?

100

These instruments can have wood or metal bars and you need a mallet to play them.

What are xylophones or metallophones?

200

This rest is one beat of silence.

What is a quarter rest?

200

This high brass instrument is played in mariachi and bands.

What is a trumpet?

200

This is the volume of music.

What is dynamics?

200
These small guitar-like instruments have 4 strings.

What is a ukulele?

300

This note has 2 sounds in one beat.

What are eighth notes?

300

In this instrument family, the piccolo is the smallest and highest instrument.

What is the woodwind family?

300

This is how music is organized.

What is form?

300
These instruments are played mostly around Christmas time and are named in a famous song.

What are jingle bells?

400

This note is held for 4 beats.

What is a whole note?

400

The instrument family that you hit, tap, or scrape to play is called this.

What is the percussion family?

400

When two groups sing the same song but they start at different times. (Like Row, Row, Row Your Boat.)

What is a round or canon?

400

These instruments have two different sized drums attached to each other and are played with your hands.

What are bongos?

500

These rests look the same except that one is upside down.

What are a whole rest and a half rest?

500

This instrument looks like a brass instrument but it is actually a woodwind instrument.

What is a saxophone?

500

An ostinato.

What is a pattern that repeats?

500
This is the biggest brass instrument.

What is a tuba?