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1
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What is an interval?

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The distance between notes

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Where do you place your finger on a fret to not need much pressure when playing a note?

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Next to the piece of metal.

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How do you call the volume aspect of notes?

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Dynamics

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How do you call the Horizontal aspect of music?

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Melody

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How do you call the vertical aspect of music?

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Harmony

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How do you call the texture aspect of music?

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Timbre

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How do you call the time aspect of music?

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Rythm

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In what order should you place your fingers on a guitar?

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In finger order (1-2-3-4)

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How much practice time should be dedicated to songs?

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Half

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What is the name of the first degree of a scale?

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Tonic

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What is the name of the second degree of a scale?

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Supertonic

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What is the name of the third degree of a scale?

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Mediant

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What is the name of the fourth degree of a scale?

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Subdominant

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What is the name of the fifth degree of a scale?

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Dominant

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What is the name of the sixth degree of a scale?

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Submediant

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What is the name of the Seventh degree of a scale?

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Leading tone

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What mode is often associated with jazz and blues, the cool mode?

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Mixolydian

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18
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What mode is the standard major scale?

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Ionian

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What mode is low-tense, dreamt, and never truly resolves?

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Lydian

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What mode is the typical sad depresses mode?

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Aeolian

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What mode is associated with war aggression?

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What mode is low-key sad, but hopeful?

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What is the difference between a natural minor and a harmonic minor?

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The 7th is sharpened on a harmonic minor.

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What is the difference between a harmonic minor and a melodic minor?

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6# and 7# when going up, natural minor when going down

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What scale is very dreamy?
Whole tone scale
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What mnemonic can help you learn the degree names?
To See More Sheep Don't Say Lunch | Tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading note
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Which degrees compose a triad?
1, 3, 5
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How many semi-tones make each note of a major triad?
4 semitones, 3 semitones
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How many semi-tones make each note of a minor triad?
3 semitones, 4 semitones
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What triad is spooky, sinister?
Diminished
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How do you build a diminished triad
Flatten the fifth of a minor triad
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How do you build an augmented triad?
You sharpen the fifth of a major triad
33
What are the primary triads of a scale?
I, IV, V
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How do you call finishing a piece written in a minor key, on the major tonic of that key?
Tierce de Picardie
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What is the basic foundation of music?
The beat
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What is a relative major or a relative minor?
Scales that share the same pool of notes (ex, Cmaj and Amin)
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How do you get from a scale's tonic to its relative scale?
You move 3 semitones up or down (up for major to minor, down for minor to major)
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How do you call key changes in music?
Modulation
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To what does a key most often modulate to?
The dominant key (ex. F maj to C maj), the subdominant, or the scale's relative minor/major, or the parallel minor/major
40
How many semitones make a perfect fifth
7
41
What are the 3 steps to sing and play guitar at same time?
1: Play the progression without thinking about it, playing it 10-15 minutes non stop while doing something else. 2: Play a single chord downstrokes on the accents
42
How do you find a major scale's relative minor on the circle of fifths?
You look at the major scale 3 positions to the right. Ex C major's relative minor is A minor
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What is a cadence?
The punctuation of music
44
What is the musical equivalent of a full stop?
A perfect cadence (V to I)
45
What gives a softer close than the perfect cadence?
The plagal cadence (IV to I)
46
What cadence is like a comma, and makes you expect something else?
Imperfect cadence (X to V)
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What cadence is like a comma and makes you expect something else?
Imperfect cadence (X to V)
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What cadence can fool and surprise the listener?
The interrupted cadence (V to VI)
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How do you call the mix of harmony and melody?
Form
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How many semitones are there from one string to another.
5

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