Mammoth Music
Sheet music is the only universal language. Put sheet music in front of anyone in the world who has studied Western music and they should be able to play the passage of music. Because the ideas started in Italy, you have to learn the Italian words and format. In this section Mammoth Memory will help you memorise sheet music terms using memorable mnemonics.
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Music Vocabulary
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Common sheet music terms
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More sheet music terms
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General music vocabulary
- A Cappella
- Anacrusis
- Annotation
- Anthem
- Antiphony
- Arco
- Aria
- Atonal
- Baritone
- Beat Boxing
- Beats Per Minute
- Binary
- Break (music)
- Cadenza
- Call and Response
- Canon
- Ceilidh
- Chorus
- Chromatic Notes
- Compose
- Countermelody
- Cross Rhythm
- Diatonic
- Dissonant
- Distortion
- Drone
- Dynamics
- Ensemble
- EQ
- Falsetto
- Fusion
- Glissando
- Groove
- Ground Bass
- Guitar Hammer on
- Guitar Pull Off
- Harmony
- Hook
- Improvisation
- Intonation
- Jam Session
- Key
- Middle Eight
- Modulation
- Musical Language
- Mute
- Ornaments
- Overdub
- Palm Muting
- Pitch
- Polyrhythm
- Poly
- Power Chord
- Rap
- Rhythm
- Riff
- Rubato
- Scale
- Scat
- Score
- Scotch Snap
- Scratching
- Sequence
- Sitar
- Slap Bass
- Slide Guitar
- Solo
- Soprano
- Strophic
- Swing
- Tabla
- Tenor
- Ternary
- Timbre
- Triad
- Trill
- Unison
- Vamping
- Vibrato
- Walking Bass
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Echo, Delay and Reverb
Sheet Music
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Reading Music
- Reading the notes on music lines
- Where is the C key on a piano?
- Staves
- Treble clef and bass clef
- Treble clef (G clef)
- Bass clef (F clef)
- How to remember the notes on the treble clef and bass clef
- What is a semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver and semiquaver?
- Another meaning of crotchets
- Musical note tree
- How to remember what semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver and semiquaver mean
- What are time signatures?
- How do you work out time signatures?
- Common time and half time
- Length in seconds of a crotchet
- What is a metronome?
- Stem, flag and head
- Music note stem direction
- Music note stem length
- What are accidentals?
- What is the sharp sign?
- What is the flat sign?
- What is the natural sign?
- What are music rests?
- How to remember the symbols for music rests
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Key Signatures
- What is a key signature
- The order of the key signatures – sharps
- How to remember the order of the key signature – sharps
- Key signatures – sharps and naming the major sharp key
- Why name the major keys
- Given the major key, what are the sharps? Method 1
- Given the major key, what are the sharps? Method 2
- The order of the key signatures – flats
- How to remember the order of the key signature – flats
- Key signatures – flats and naming the major flat key
- Given the major key, what are the flats?
- Where are the minor keys?
- What does 'down a minor third from the major key' mean?
- All of the key signatures
- Key signatures summary
Instruments
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Guitar
- Naming Parts of the Guitar
- Head, Neck and Body of the Guitar
- The Fret is the Fingerboard
- Pickguard
- The Bridge and Saddle
- The Guitar Nut
- A Guitarist's Perspective or View
- How Do You Name the Strings of a Guitar?
- What is the Natural Note Order on a Guitar?
- How Do You Remember the Order of the Strings Using Mnemonics?
- What are all the Notes on a Fretboard/Fingerboard?
- Are Guitars Similar To Pianos?
- How Do You Recall That Note B and E have no Natural Sharp Key?
- Take Away all the Sharps and Flats
- Scales on one String