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What is a 7th chord?

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A chord that has the seventh added to it.

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What is ABA?

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Ternary Form.

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What is an Alto?

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A low female voice.

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What is a Bass?

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A low male voice.

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What is a Crotchet?

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Worth 1 count - quarter note.

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What does Diminuendo mean?

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Gradually getting quieter.

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What is a Drone?

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A sustained note which is usually low.

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What is a Drum Fill?

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A pattern a drummer plays to warn of a new section about to start.

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What is Duration in music?

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Length of individual notes.

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What are Dynamics?

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Volume.

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What is an Enharmonic equivalent?

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Two different names for the same pitch.

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What is an Ensemble?

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A group of instrumentalists.

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What does Flat mean in music?

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An accidental that makes the pitch lower.

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What does Forte mean?

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Loud.

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What is a Hi-hat?

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Part of the drum kit.

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What are Hits in music?

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Sudden unexpected accented notes.

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What are the primary Triads?

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I, IV, V.

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What does Idiomatic mean?

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Playable.

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What is Improvisation?

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Making it up as you go along.

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What is an Intro?

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Section at the start of a song before the singing starts.

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What is a Kick?

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Part of the drum kit.

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What does Legato mean?

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Playing notes smoothly like they are joined together.

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What is a Leitmotif?

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A melody that depicts a character or place.

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What are Lyrics?

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The words to a song.

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What is a Minim?
Worth two counts.
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What does Monophonic mean?
All layers playing the same thing.
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What is an Outro?
The end section of a song.
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What is Percussion?
A section of the orchestra including instruments such as the snare drum and xylophone.
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What is a Phrase in music?
A musical sentence (part of a melody).
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What is Phrase Structure?
How the sections of a melody are put together.
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What does Piano mean?
Quiet.
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What is Pitch?
Low or High.
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What does Pizzicato mean?
Plucking strings.
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What are Primary Triads?
I, IV, V.
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What is a Quaver?
Worth half a count - Eighth note.
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What is Rap?
Rhythm and Poetry.
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What is a Ride?
Part of the drum kit.
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What is a Riff?
A short repeated phrase in popular music or Jazz.
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What does Sampling mean?
Using a part of another artist's track in your own composition.
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What is a Scale?
Notes played in order from lowest to highest.
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What does Scratching mean?
Moving a vinyl back and forward under a turntable.
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What is a Semitone?
The very nearest pitch.
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What is Shuffle time?
A type of metre used in blues music.
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What is Simple time?
2 weak beats for every strong beat.
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What is a Snare?
Part of the drum kit.
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What is a Solo?
Someone singing or playing on their own.
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What is a Soprano?
A high female voice.
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What does Staccato mean?
A short note.
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What are Strings?
A section of the orchestra including instruments such as the Violin and Cello.
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What is Structure in music?
How music is split into sections.
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What is Tempo?
Speed of the regular pulse.
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What is a Tenor?
A high male voice.
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What is Ternary Form?
A piece with the structure ABA.
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What is Texture in music?
Number of different musical layers.
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What is Timbre?
The sound quality of an instrument or instruments.
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What is a Time signature?
The way of showing how many beats in a bar and what type of beat.
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What is Tonality?
Major or Minor.
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What is a Tone?
2 semitones.
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What is a Triad?
A chord made up of three notes three letter names apart.
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What is a Triplet?
3 beats in the space of 2.
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What is a Verse?
A section of a song where the words change each time but music stays the same.
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What is a Walking Bass?
A Triadic bassline used in blues music.
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What is Woodwind?
A section of the orchestra including instruments such as the oboe and flute.
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What is a Melodic Hook?
A catchy melody in a pop song.
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What is a Melody?
A tune.
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What is 12 Bar Blues?
A chord sequence used in blues music.
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What is AAB?
A phrase structure used in the chorus of blues music.
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What does Accelerando mean?
Gradually getting faster.
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What is an Accent?
A note which is played louder than those played around it.
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What does Allegro mean?
Fast.
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What is a Backbeat?
An Accented snare on beats 2 and 4.
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What is a Bass Ostinato?
A Low short repeated pattern.
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What does BPM stand for?
Beats per minute.
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What is Brass?
A section of the orchestra including instruments such as the trumpet and trombone.
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What is Call and Response?
Where one musician plays and another 'answers' the first player.
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What is a Chord Sequence?
The order the chords are played in.
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What is a Chorus?
A repeated section of a song where the words and music are repeated usually the most important.
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What is Compound time?
3 weak beats in every strong beat.
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What is a Crash?
Part of the drum kit.
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What does Crescendo mean?
Gradually getting louder.
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What does articulation mean?
How a note or phrase is performed EG: Staccato, Legato

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