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1
Q

What is an interval?

A

The distance between notes

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2
Q

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

A

Next to the piece of metal.

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3
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How do you call the volume aspect of notes?

A

Dynamics

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4
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How do you call the Horizontal aspect of music?

A

Melody

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5
Q

How do you call the vertical aspect of music?

A

Harmony

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6
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How do you call the texture aspect of music?

A

Timbre

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7
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How do you call the time aspect of music?

A

Rythm

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8
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In what order should you place your fingers on a guitar?

A

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

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9
Q

How much practice time should be dedicated to songs?

A

Half

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10
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What is the name of the first degree of a scale?

A

Tonic

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11
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What is the name of the second degree of a scale?

A

Supertonic

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12
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What is the name of the third degree of a scale?

A

Mediant

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13
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What is the name of the fourth degree of a scale?

A

Subdominant

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14
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What is the name of the fifth degree of a scale?

A

Dominant

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15
Q

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

A

Submediant

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16
Q

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

A

Leading tone

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17
Q

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

A

Mixolydian

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18
Q

What mode is the standard major scale?

A

Ionian

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19
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What mode is low-tense, dreamt, and never truly resolves?

A

Lydian

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20
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What mode is the typical sad depresses mode?

A

Aeolian

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21
Q

What mode is associated with war aggression?

A

Phrygian

22
Q

What mode is low-key sad, but hopeful?

A

Dorian

23
Q

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

A

The 7th is sharpened on a harmonic minor.

24
Q

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

A

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

25
Q

What scale is very dreamy?

A

Whole tone scale

26
Q

What mnemonic can help you learn the degree names?

A

To See More Sheep Don’t Say Lunch

Tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading note

27
Q

Which degrees compose a triad?

A

1, 3, 5

28
Q

How many semi-tones make each note of a major triad?

A

4 semitones, 3 semitones

29
Q

How many semi-tones make each note of a minor triad?

A

3 semitones, 4 semitones

30
Q

What triad is spooky, sinister?

A

Diminished

31
Q

How do you build a diminished triad

A

Flatten the fifth of a minor triad

32
Q

How do you build an augmented triad?

A

You sharpen the fifth of a major triad

33
Q

What are the primary triads of a scale?

A

I, IV, V

34
Q

How do you call finishing a piece written in a minor key, on the major tonic of that key?

A

Tierce de Picardie

35
Q

What is the basic foundation of music?

A

The beat

36
Q

What is a relative major or a relative minor?

A

Scales that share the same pool of notes (ex, Cmaj and Amin)

37
Q

How do you get from a scale’s tonic to its relative scale?

A

You move 3 semitones up or down (up for major to minor, down for minor to major)

38
Q

How do you call key changes in music?

A

Modulation

39
Q

To what does a key most often modulate to?

A

The dominant key (ex. F maj to C maj), the subdominant, or the scale’s relative minor/major, or the parallel minor/major

40
Q

How many semitones make a perfect fifth

A

7

41
Q

What are the 3 steps to sing and play guitar at same time?

A

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
Q

How do you find a major scale’s relative minor on the circle of fifths?

A

You look at the major scale 3 positions to the right. Ex C major’s relative minor is A minor

43
Q

What is a cadence?

A

The punctuation of music

44
Q

What is the musical equivalent of a full stop?

A

A perfect cadence (V to I)

45
Q

What gives a softer close than the perfect cadence?

A

The plagal cadence (IV to I)

46
Q

What cadence is like a comma, and makes you expect something else?

A

Imperfect cadence (X to V)

47
Q

What cadence is like a comma and makes you expect something else?

A

Imperfect cadence (X to V)

48
Q

What cadence can fool and surprise the listener?

A

The interrupted cadence (V to VI)

49
Q

How do you call the mix of harmony and melody?

A

Form

50
Q

How many semitones are there from one string to another.

A

5

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