Musical Terms | Reading the staff | Reading music | Note values | Playing piano |
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What is a chord
3 or more notes played together
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What adds the value of 2 notes together into one
A tie in music
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What is is A
Note on the second space of the treble clef
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What is a quarter note/rest
Receives 1 beat
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What is the thumb
Finger number 1
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What tells you how many beats each measure gets
A time signature
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What takes half the value of the note and adds it to the original value
A dot in music
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What are bass clef line notes
GBDFA
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What is 3 beats
Value of a dotted half note
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What is a treble clef
Staff used when playing with right hand
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What brings you to the beginning of the piece
DC
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What is brackets under the music
Playing the Pedal
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What is a sharp
Raises a note a half step
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What is 6 beats
Value of a whole note tied to a half note
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What is the speed of the music
Tempo
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What is playing notes one at a time
Melodic Interval
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What creates notes above or below the staff
Ledger lines
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What is an interval
The distance between 2 notes
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What is 1 1/2 beats
Value of a dotted quarter rest
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What are dynamics
This tells you how loud to play
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What is a grand staff
Term for reading music with both hands
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What is BEADGCF
Order of the flats
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What lowers the note half a step
A flat
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What is 7 beats
Total value of half note + 2 quarter notes + whole note - a quarter note
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What is a slur
This tells you to play the music smoothly
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