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What is the tempo?
What album was it first released on?
Killer Queen
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What album was it first released on?
A day at the races
Night at the opera
The best of Queen
Sheer heart attack
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What is the tempo?
Moderato
Cantabile
Colla voce
Moderate
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When was Killer Queen released?
1969
1974
1964
1979
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When was the band formed?
1960
1984
1970
1974
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How many electric guitars were used?
3
4
1
5
6
What is the key of the piece?
d major
Totally a big guess
c minor throughout
tonally ambiguous
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What guitar techniques are used?
Hocketing, Palm muting, slides, vibrato, pull-off, bend
Playing with a sixpence
Flanger, EQ, Reverb, Multitracking, Panning
Hockey-playing, Palm trees, Slides, vibrations, bentness
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What vocal technique is used in bar 11?
Singing cats
falsetto
soprano
vocables
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What is the flanger on 'laser beam' an example of?
Special effects
Good music
Word Painting
Space warfare
10
Who is the best band member?
Roger
Freddie
Brian
John
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What is Freddy Mercury's real name?
Farrock'n'roll
Brian May
Farrokh Bulsara
Frodo Mars
12
What phrase best describes the melody and lyrics?
bad music
Melody dictated by lyrics
Mostly melismatic and discordant
Mostly syllabic and conjunct with small leaps
13
What do the backing vocals add to the texture in the chorus?
Make it busier
Make it simpler
Make it fairer- all the band get to sing
Make it sound nicer
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What effects are used on the word 'laser beam'?
EQ and Wah-wah
Flanger + EQ
Hocketing
Flanger
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What happens on the word 'insatiable'?
Gets louder
Octave leap
Gets quieter
Octopus leap
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What is another term for an upbeat note?
Stretto
Anacrusis
Annacrisis
Syncopation
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What is hocketing?
Hitting someone's foot in hockey
Melody shared between instruments
Taking turns to play the melody
The relative frequency of a hockey stick
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What structure is Killer Queen?
ABA
Sonata Form
ABABABABABBBAAA
Verse/Chorus
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What is the starting time signature?
6/4
12/8
6/8
12/4
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Who wrote the song?
Freddie Mercury
Queen
Bruno Mars
The Kinks
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What genres influenced the writing of Killer Queen?
musical theatre
Baroque fugues
flangers
jazz and blues
