Mostly terms for guitar playing (as in rock and methods).
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| What is an octave? | A tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. | |
| What is an interval? | The distance between two notes. | |
| What is a natural harmonic? | The bell-like tone produced when an open (guitar) string is plucked while a fret-hand finger lightly touches it above a designated fret location. | |
| What are all the letters in the musical alphabet (excluding sharps and flats)? | A-B-C-D-E-F-G | |
| What does augment mean? | To raise a half step. | |
| What is a dyad? | Two notes played together as a chord. | |
| What is a ledger? | Short lines acting as temporary staff extensions. | |
| How many beats is a sixteenth note worth? | 1/4 beat | |
| How many beats is a quarter note worth? | 1 beat | |
| How many beats is a half note worth? | 2 beats | |
| How many beats is a whole note worth? | 4 beats | |
| How many beats is an eighth note worth? | 1/2 beat | |
| Write down a whole rest, a half rest, a quarter rest, an eighth rest, and a sixteenth rest on tab paper. | Is it correct? http://cnx.org/content/m11887/latest/ | |
| What does a double-barline signify? | The end of a section. | |
| What does a terminal barline signify? | The end of a piece of music. | |
| What is a beam/partial beam? | A line(s) used to connect a group of notes that are less than one beat in value. | |
| How does a note change when a dot is placed immediately after (parallel) to the note head? | The value of the note's (or rest's) duration increases by 1/2. | |
| What is a tie? | A curved line that connects two notes of the same pitch. | |
| What is a slur? | A curved line that connects two notes of different pitches. | |
| What is a triplet? | A group of 3 notes that occupies the same duration as two notes of the same value. http://www.cinderzelda.com/musictutor/rhythm/triplets.htm | |
| What would 'fourth' define in the term fourth-dyad? | The musical interval, or distance, of four scale steps (the equivalent of five frets). | |
| What is a riff? | The series of notes, chord patterns or musical phrases that are repeated. | |
| What does P.M. stand for (between the staff and TAB symbol)? | Palm mute (guitar). |
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