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What is a scale?
A collection of notes (usually 8, occasionally other numbers) often played in succession.
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Who is Pink Floyd
This band wrote Comfortably Numb
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What is Nirvana?
Smells Like Teen Spirit was written by this band.
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Who is Ed Sheeran?
Shape of you is written by this artist.
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What is Jazz?
Tritone substitution is most commonly used in this genre.
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What is an interval, or a double-stop?
Two notes played at the same time make this up.
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What is the 1980's?
The synthesizer was popularized in this era (post MIDI invention).
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What is Black Sabbath?
War Pigs was written by this band.
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What is 2006?
Taylor swift released her first album in this year.
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What is Sidechaining?
This effect commonly used across electronic pop producing is when a synth pad swells in volume with the downbeat
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What are chords?
In western harmony, these are created by stacking thirds from root note.
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Who is Herbie Hancock?
A prolific writer, this influential black jazz musician wrote tunes such as chameleon, watermelon man, and canteloupe island
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What is Rush?
This band was an early player in the prog scene, with songs such as Tom Sawyer, and Spirit of the Radio.
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What is Running Up That Hill
This famous Kate Bush song was recently remixed into a pop hit.
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What are Covers?
The album eMOTIVe by A Perfect Circle is entirely composed of these types of songs.
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What is the major scale?
Ionian is this scale.
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Who is Beauchamp? Or who is Rickenbacker?
This man helped to invent the electric guitar
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Who is Stevie Nicks?
Featured in guardians of the galaxy, The Chain was written by this singer, frontwoman of Fleetwood Mac.
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Who is Beyonce
Her first solo album, Dangerously in Love was released in 2003
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What is Nine Inch Nails?
Trent Reznor is the only artist in this band.
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What is a perfect fifth?
A harmonic ratio of 3:2.
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What is the 1950's?
The hard-bop style of jazz was popular in this period.
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What is TOOL?
This band released Fear Inoculum in 2019, coming back from a 13 year hiatus after their 2006 album 10,000 Days.
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Who is Peter Gabriel
This former lead singer of genesis had a #1 hit single in both the US and the UK, sledgehammer
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What is mixolydian, flat 6?
The Beyonce song All the single ladies is in this very unusual scale.
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