Instruments
Our Mini-Course
Ben Thomas
Production Vocab
Musical Artists
Music Theory
100
The name of this brass instrument.
What is the French Horn?
100
The name of a student in our mini-course who plays an instrument and name the instrument they play.
Who is...
100
The college that Ben Thomas graduated from in 2018.
What is Temple University?
100
The person who makes decision on how to record each voice and instrument as well as mixing and mastering the song.
Who is an Audio Engineer?
100
The name of the Eminem song we played from his movie 8-Mile with the message of seizing the moment and not giving up.
What is Lose Yourself?
100
The number of lines on a music staff.
What is 5.
200
The name of this type of drum.
What are bongos?
200
The messages of all three songs we produced in this class.
What are: Gun Violence Awareness, Female Empowerment/Self-Confidence, Weekend/Break Appreciation
200
The number of Grammy nominations Ben has as a producer.
What is 5?
200
Three out of the four parts of a song that John discussed during his lesson on song form.
What are verses, chorus, bridge, prechorus?
200
The name of Lil Uzi Vert's 2023 Billboard number-one album. (produced by Ben Thomas)
What is Pink Tape?
200
The term used for the numbers in red in the picture below. (Note: they are not normally red).
What is the time signature?
300
The TWO musical families a piano is a part of.
What are the string and percussion music families?
300
The number of sales when an album has gone platinum.
What is 1 million?
Gold= 500,000 units sold; Diamond=10 million units sold
300
The name of an artist that Ben has produced for other than Lil Uzi Vert.
Who is...Jazmine Sullivan, Justin Bieber, Pusha T, Fridayy, Philadelphia Eagles (Jason Kelce), Ingrid Andress?
300
As a producer, the part of the song Ben always starts with when producing a track because "you're not making beats, you're making songs." (as we saw yesterday).
What is the music?
300
The Philadelphia-based artist whose Grammy-winning song "Pick Up Your Feelings" from her album Heaux Tales was produced by Ben Thomas.
Who is Jazmine Sullivan?
300
The two most common clefs used in music.
What are the Treble (or G) clef and the Bass clef.
400
The name of this popular instrument in music production.
What is a hi-hat?
400
The first and last names of all three teachers of this minicourse.
Who are John Kairis, Ceora Wearing-Moore and Chris Coyle?
400
One piece of advice Ben gave to students who are interested in becoming music producers.
What is...
- keep making beats and practicing everyday
- utilize the content online like YouTube videos
- make music with you friends so you enjoy it
- push through the hard part when you're not very good
- it can take a long time to be really good at producing
400
An audio effect used in music production that amplifies a musical instrument so it sounds like it "echoes" through the room.
What is reverb?
400
The first female rapper to have a diamond certified album- selling 10 million copies.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
400
The name of this symbol AND its meaning.
What is a forte which means "loudly."
500
The names of the 4 strings on a violin.
What are G, A, D, E?
500
The full name of BOTH of the studios we visited this week.
What are Miner Street Recordings and Rittenhouse Soundworks?
500
The name of the studio that Ben Thomas opened in 2020.
What is After5 Studios?
500
What DAW stands for in music production. Examples of DAWS are Ableton Live, Garage Band, and Logic Pro.
What is Digital Audio Workstation.
500
Brian McTear, the owner of the first studio we visited, named them as one of his favorite groups to work with.
Who are The War on Drugs?
500
The notes of the line and spaces on a treble clef staff.
What are...
Lines: E,G,B,D,F
Spaces: F,A,C,E