C8 - Intro to Pitch

What is “pitch” in music?

• A place where you play football

• How fast or slow a sound wave vibrates

• The part of the song everyone remembers

• The sound a piano makes when you drop it

How can you identify the note “C” on a keyboard?

• It’s the lonely white key at the far end of the keyboard

• The key right before any group of three black keys

• It’s the white key just to the left of any pair of black keys

• It’s whichever key sounds best to you

What is an octave?

• A group of eight notes, including C twice

• A musical recipe with eight steps

• A type of vocal warm-up

• A way to make any song sound more mysterious

What is a “scale” in music?

• Something you stand on after a big meal

• The steps musicians use to create melodies

• The thing musicians complain about practicing

• Dragon skin

Which scale is typically associated with a “happy” sound?

• Major scale

• Minor scale

• Diminished scale

• The happy scale

In the Piano Roll of a DAW, what happens to a note if you make its line longer?

• It gets louder

• It plays for a longer time

• It turns into a whole step

• It becomes a dramatic pause

What’s the first thing to do before exploring virtual instruments?

• Start pretending you’re in a rock band

• Find your MIDI keyboard and make sure it’s working

• Select every instrument just to be thorough

• Take a deep breath, it’s a lot to explore

What is a semitone in music?

• Half of a whole step, the shortest distance between two notes on a keyboard

• The musical equivalent of half a cup of sugar in a recipe

• A tone you can only hear on very quiet days

• The sound a keyboard makes when it’s only half-plugged in

Which of the following describes the tone-semitone formula for a major scale?

• Tone – Semitone – Tone – Semitone – Tone – Semitone – Tone

• Tone – Tone – Semitone – Tone – Tone – Tone – Semitone

• Semitone – Tone – Tone – Semitone – Tone – Tone – Tone

• Tone – Tone – Tone – Tone – Tone – Tone – Tone

How does the tone-semitone pattern change in a minor scale?

• It’s exactly the same as the major scale pattern

• It starts with a semitone, followed by all tones

• Tone – Semitone – Tone – Tone – Semitone – Tone – Tone

• Tone – Tone – Semitone – Semitone – Tone – Tone