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- Q: What device helps to set and maintain a steady tempo when playing a musical instrument?
A: A metronome. It produces an audible tick or pulse measured in Beats Per Minute (BPM). - Q: How many strings are there on a regular bass guitar?
A: It has 4 strings that players tune to E, A, D, and G. However, musicians now widely use 5-string models (adding a low B) and 6-string models (adding a low B and a high C). - Q: Who in 1957 had “Great Balls of Fire”?
A: Jerry Lee Lewis. It sold over five million copies worldwide. - Q: What do musicians call the raised metal strips embedded into a guitar neck?
A: Frets (Fret Wires). The standard Orangewood guitar usually has 21 frets. - Q: What do the initials B.B. stand for in B.B. King’s name?
A: Blues Boy. His parents named him Riley B. King at birth; subsequently, he earned the nickname ‘Beale Street Blues Boy’ while working as a disc jockey in Memphis, Tennessee. - Q: Which famous classical composer continued to compose masterpieces after becoming profoundly deaf in his 40s?
A: Ludwig van Beethoven. His hearing began deteriorating in his late 20s. - Q: Which American girl group’s biggest-ever hit was “Be My Baby”?
A: The Ronettes. Produced by Phil Spector and released in August 1963. - Q: Which Indian musical instrument did The Beatles make popular?
A: sitar. George Harrison played the instrument on the 1965 track “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”. - Q: Which Procol Harum 1967 hit is based on the Bach cantata “Sleepers Awake”?
A: A Whiter Shade of Pale. Fundamentally, ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ fuses original music with inspiration from Bach’s Cantata 140 (‘Wachet auf’ or ‘Sleepers, Awake’). Furthermore, the song heavily incorporates the composer’s ‘Air on a G String’ (from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major). - Q: What is English singer-songwriter Declan Patrick McManus’ stage name?
A: Elvis Costello. He adopted the moniker in the mid-1970s at the suggestion of his manager, combining the first name of Elvis Presley with the surname of his paternal great-grandmother.