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Uke Terms
Term | Definition |
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Quarter note | receives one beat of sound |
Quarter rest | receives one beat of silence |
Half note | receives two beats of sound |
Half rest | receives two beats of silence |
Whole note | receives four beats of sound |
Whole rest | receives four beats of silence |
Eighth note | receives ½ a beat of sound |
Eighth rest | receives ½ a beat of silence |
Sixteenth note | receives ¼ a beat of sound |
Sixteenth rest | receives ¼ a beat of silence |
Staff | five lines and four spaces where music is written |
Measure | the space between the barlines |
Bar line | a symbol that separates the notes into measures |
Time signature | a symbol that indicates how many beats are in each measure |
Key signature | indicates where the tonic is located |
Double bar line | indicates the end of a song or a section of a song |
Treble clef | indicates notes higher than middle C |
Bass clef | indicates notes lower than middle C |
Step | indicates notes lower than middle C |
Skip | moving from one note to the next while skipping only one note |
Leap | moving from one note to the next while skipping more than one note |
Tonic | the home note |
Line note | a note that has a line going through the notehead |
Space note | a note that is between two lines on the staff |
Grand staff | a staff that is created when two staves are joined together |
Meter | repeated patterns of stress |
Duple | grouping in 2s |
Triple | grouping is 3s |