unit one card

Question 1

Proper posture

Answer 1

back straight.
head up, chin in and looking straight ahead.
shoulders relaxed.
tummy in.
weight balanced evenly on your two feet.
knees straight.

Question 1

Curved fingers

Answer 1

allows you to play with more freedom and less tension.

Question 2

Finger numbers

Answer 2

Your index fingers are 2, your middle finger is 3, the ring finger is 4 and your pinkies will be 5.

Question 3

Note names (treble & bass)

Answer 3

Treble is a term for higher sounding notes.

Question 4

Quarter note

Answer 4

A quarter note is one beat. An eighth note is one half beat. A sixteenth note is one fourth beat.

Question 5

Half note

Answer 5

a note played for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a quarter note (or crotchet).

Question 6

Bar line

Answer 6

vertical lines that cross staves in order to show how music is divided into bars, according to the time signature.

Question 7

Measure

Answer 7

a segment of time within a piece of music defined by a given number of beats

Question 8

Double bar line

Answer 8

two single bar lines drawn close together, separating two sections within a piece, or a bar line followed by a thicker bar line, indicating the end of a piece or movement.

Question 9

Treble clef

Answer 9

to signify higher-pitched notes in contemporary musical notation

Question 10

Whole note

Answer 10

4 beats is a whole note.

Question 11

Bass clef

Answer 11

G, B, D, F, A, and the spaces A, C, E and G

Question 12

Grand staff

Answer 12

the combination of two staves, treble and bass clef, joined together with a bracket

Question 13

Bracket/brace

Answer 13

thick straight and curved lines in the left-hand margin that show instrument groupings.