Music Flashcards
What is an interval?
The distance between notes
Where do you place your finger on a fret to not need much pressure when playing a note?
Next to the piece of metal.
How do you call the volume aspect of notes?
Dynamics
How do you call the Horizontal aspect of music?
Melody
How do you call the vertical aspect of music?
Harmony
How do you call the texture aspect of music?
Timbre
How do you call the time aspect of music?
Rythm
In what order should you place your fingers on a guitar?
In finger order (1-2-3-4)
How much practice time should be dedicated to songs?
Half
What is the name of the first degree of a scale?
Tonic
What is the name of the second degree of a scale?
Supertonic
What is the name of the third degree of a scale?
Mediant
What is the name of the fourth degree of a scale?
Subdominant
What is the name of the fifth degree of a scale?
Dominant
What is the name of the sixth degree of a scale?
Submediant
What is the name of the Seventh degree of a scale?
Leading tone
What mode is often associated with jazz and blues, the cool mode?
Mixolydian
What mode is the standard major scale?
Ionian
What mode is low-tense, dreamt, and never truly resolves?
Lydian
What mode is the typical sad depresses mode?
Aeolian
What mode is associated with war aggression?
Phrygian
What mode is low-key sad, but hopeful?
Dorian
What is the difference between a natural minor and a harmonic minor?
The 7th is sharpened on a harmonic minor.
What is the difference between a harmonic minor and a melodic minor?
6# and 7# when going up, natural minor when going down
What scale is very dreamy?
Whole tone scale
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
Which degrees compose a triad?
1, 3, 5
How many semi-tones make each note of a major triad?
4 semitones, 3 semitones
How many semi-tones make each note of a minor triad?
3 semitones, 4 semitones
What triad is spooky, sinister?
Diminished
How do you build a diminished triad
Flatten the fifth of a minor triad
How do you build an augmented triad?
You sharpen the fifth of a major triad
What are the primary triads of a scale?
I, IV, V
How do you call finishing a piece written in a minor key, on the major tonic of that key?
Tierce de Picardie
What is the basic foundation of music?
The beat
What is a relative major or a relative minor?
Scales that share the same pool of notes (ex, Cmaj and Amin)
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)
How do you call key changes in music?
Modulation
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
How many semitones make a perfect fifth
7
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
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
What is a cadence?
The punctuation of music
What is the musical equivalent of a full stop?
A perfect cadence (V to I)
What gives a softer close than the perfect cadence?
The plagal cadence (IV to I)
What cadence is like a comma, and makes you expect something else?
Imperfect cadence (X to V)
What cadence is like a comma and makes you expect something else?
Imperfect cadence (X to V)
What cadence can fool and surprise the listener?
The interrupted cadence (V to VI)
How do you call the mix of harmony and melody?
Form
How many semitones are there from one string to another.
5
