Year 7 Term 4 Exam Music Revision

Major Chord

Bright or happy sounding chords

Minor Chord

Duller or sad sounding chords

High Pitch

Upper register, notes placed at the top of the piano

Low Pitch

Lower register, notes placed at the lower end of the piano

Bars

How music is separated into counts

Ostinato

Short repeated musical phrase

Beat

Steady pulse of the music

Rhythm

Patterns of long and short sounds

Pitch

The highness or lowness of the sound

Volume

The loudness or softness of the music

Tempo

The speed of the music

What is strumming a guitar?

Placing your hand in a chord position on the fretboard & using your finger to play all the strings, causing vibrations.

What does Tablature refer to?

A way to read guitar music. The numbers refer to the fret spaces to place fingers on.

What is the Fretboard of the guitar?

Where fingers are placed to determine the pitch of the strings.

What is the purpose of tuning pegs on a guitar?

To tune each string to the correct note.

What are the tunings of a guitar?

Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie.

Why do guitars need a soundhole?

So the sound has a place to vibrate.

Crotchet

= 1

2 Quavers

= 1

4 Semiquavers

= 1

Crotchet Rest

= 1

Minim

= 2

Semibreve

= 4