Test

Question 1

Snare Drum (grip)

Answer 1

Three-point grip at the fulcrum (balance point) of the stick

Question 2

Snare Drum (strokes)

Answer 2

Full stroke, Up stroke, Down Stroke (all single strokes)

Question 3

Snare Drum (roll strokes)

Answer 3

Double, Triple, Multiple (use whole arm not wrists)

Question 4

Rudiments - rolls

Answer 4

5 storke, 7 storke, 9 stroke

Question 5

Rudiments - Flam

Answer 5

both sticks hit at the same time

Question 6

Rudiments - Flam Accent

Answer 6

Flam, accent, tap, tap

Question 7

Rudiments - Flamacue

Answer 7

Flam, accent, tap, tap, flam

Question 8

Rudiments - Drag/ruff

Question 9

Rudiments - Paradiddle

Answer 9

a quick succession of drumbeats slower than a roll and alternating left- and right-hand strokes in a typical L-R-L-L, R-L-R-R pattern

Question 10

Rudiments - Double Paradiddle

Question 11

Rudiments - Tripple paradiddle

Question 12

Snare Drum Anatomy - Shell

Answer 12

Body of the drum, made up of anything

Question 13

Snare Drum Anatomy - Heads

Answer 13

one on top (battered, made of gut originally, one on bottom is resonant

Question 14

Snares

Answer 14

Make the drum rattle

Question 15

Snare throw-off

Answer 15

piece that hold the snare in place. Able to turn it on or off depending on what sound you want

Question 16

Lugs and tension rods

Answer 16

keep drum in tune and keep the drum head together

Question 17

Snare drum tuning - Batter Head

Answer 17

roughly a concert A

Question 18

Snare drum tuning - Resonant head

Answer 18

harming sounds roughly a 5th above batter head. (D or E)

Question 19

Snare drum tuning - Snare tension

Answer 19

Too loose is rattly. Too tight gets unwanted resonance

Question 20

Xylophone

Answer 20

Roosewood or kelon bars

Question 21

Glockenspiel

Answer 21

Steel bars

Question 22

Marimba

Answer 22

Rosewood, Kelon or Paduak bars

Question 23

Vibraphone

Answer 23

steel or aluminum bars, rotating fans in resonators (always broken)

Question 24

Chimes

Answer 24

chromed brass tubes

Question 25

Crotales

Answer 25

Bronze alloy, like cymbals

Question 26

Mallets

Answer 26

two mallets or four mallet grips

Question 27

Timpani

Answer 27

Plastic or calfskin
copper bowl
frame
rim

Question 28

Timpani - Mechanism

Answer 28

usually a pedal

Question 29

Timpani - Standard Size

Answer 29

32, 29, 26, 23, 20

Question 30

Timpani - Balanced Action vs Ratchet

Answer 30

Balanced Action: put the tension on the head against the tension on the spring near the pedal to hold the pitch.

Ratchet Drums: Disregard the tension on the head, rather using a ratchet to hold the tension on the spring near the pedal

Question 31

Timpani - Stroke

Answer 31

Full stroke always
Relaxed grip
Beating spot is 2-5 inched from rim

Question 32

Timpani - Tuning

Answer 32

Release pedal, then slide UP to pitch quickly
Tune lowest drum first, tune all pitches to the lowest drum

Question 33

Bass drum

Answer 33

-play vertically, use body to muffle drum
-Beating spot slightly off-center
-Relaxed stroke

Question 34

Cymbals -mezzo Forte to Fortissmo

Answer 34

-Hold cymbals parallel
-tilt both to achieve playing angle
-break writs upon contact
-follow through with upper cymbal

Question 35

Cymbals - Piano

Answer 35

-bring cymbals together silently
- use small out-in movement, both accelerating towards each other
-All edges contact at the same time - no flam

Question 37

Tambourine

Answer 37

Hold loosely at an angle
Brace middle finger with thumb, use pecking motion from wrist
-Loud rolls achieved by shaking back and fourth
-Softer rolls achieved with thumb or finger friction
-Loud and fast can be played with the knee-hand technique

Question 38

Triangle

Answer 38

-Opening to the left, play in opposite corner
-Oblique stroke for more overtones
-Vertical or horizontal stroke for more articulation
-Use two sides of triangle for rolls and fast articulate passages