Music Production Vocabulary Quiz

How do you feel about Music Production Vocabulary?

• I don't even know what we're talking about.

• I can get the obvious definitions...

• I got most of them!

• Bet, I got this.

What does BPM stand for?

• Because Prima Mentioned

• Bacula Paroma Monophilies

• Backward Pants, Man

• Beats Per Minute

Tempo is measured in :

• BPM

• MBP

• The rotational friction caused by high atmospheric pressure over slower moving moisture in the atmosphere.

• Don't pick this one...it isn't correct.

The part of the song that most often has the lyrics attached to it is called the __________________________.

Match the following

• Harmony

• The "tune" or catchy part of the song.

• mustard

• The underlying chords that provide a piece of music with it's "feel"

• Rhythmic Track

• The part of a piece of music that is devoid of notes....informally called "the beat"

• Melody

• The best possible hot dog topping

Rhythm is how fast the music moves over the tempo.

• This isn't a question.

• yes!

• You're a very strange teacher...

• facts.

A piece of hardware that expands and improves the sound capabilities of a computer. 

• Audio plug-in

• Audio Interface

• oh, c'mon this one was harder.

• Iudio Anterface

A type of track that can be created in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) to record from a microphone, instrument cable or another audio source.

• .mp3

• .wav

• .martins

• Digital Audio Track

What is a DAW?

• WAD spelled backward

• Digital Audio Workstation

• Digital Audio Workspace

• Detritus Abound in War

At one point, a music producer would have to manually control things like fade-in and fade out...now we have automations to do that for us. What is an automation?

• meow

• The modulation of a parameter over time, such as an effect sweep or volume change.

• woof

• hiss