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Guitar
Theory Practice Tests
From
Music Maker Guitar Lessons
1. How Can Pitch Axis
Help You In Composition?
2. How Does Modal
Interchange Differ To Pitch Axis?
3. What's Your
Understanding Of Guitar Scales?
4. What Is The
Importance Of Setting Goals?
5. What Scale Is A
Template For All Scales?
6. How Many Notes
Does A Chromatic Scale Have?
7. What Might You
Study When Looking At Rhythm?
8. List 3 Tips To
Help You Learn Guitar?
9. What Part Of The
Guitar Holds The Truss Rod?
10. List The Following
Notes On The Guitar
Fretboard?
6th String 4th
Fret is:
4th String 8th
Fret is:
3rd String 11th
Fret
is:
2nd String 7th
Fret is
5th String 9th
Fret is:
1st String 6th
Fret is:
11. What 7 Notes of
the English Alphabet Are Used To
Make The Chromatic Scale?
12. List One String
Gauge Suitable For An Electric
Guitar?
13. List 3 Things That
Will Help Strengthen A
Guitarist's Fingers?
14. Describe How A
Guitar Pickup Works?
15. List 2 Things That
Will Help Shape Your Guitar
Sound?
16. What Is The
Difference Between Tube & Solid
State Amplifiers?
17. Name 2 Types Of
Guitar?
18. List 3 Types Of
Guitar Tuning?
19. List 7 Chord Types
20. What Is The
Difference Between C13 & CM13?
21. List The Notes
That Make Up The Following
Chords?
D -
Dm
E5
F6
Bb7
C9
Ab11
G13
DM7
AM9
BM11
F#M13
C diminished
Ab augmented
Dsus4
Gm7b5
22. Question List The
Chords From The Guitar Tab?
0-----
0----- 0----- 3-------------
1-----
1----- 0----- 4-----
4-----
0-----
3----- 0----- 5-----
3-----
2-----
2----- 2------------ 4-----
3-----
3----- 3------------ 3-----
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1st Chord
is____(the
root note is on the 5th string)
2nd chord
is____(the
root note is on the 5th string)
3rd Chord
is____(the
root note is on the 5th string)
4th Chord
is____(the
root note is on the 3rd string)
5th Chord
is____(the root
note is on the 5th string)
23. List The Following
Chords?

1st Chord
is____(the root note is on the 4th string)
2nd chord
is____(the root note is on the 4th string)
3rd Chord
is____(the root note is on the 4th string)
4th Chord
is____(the root note is on the 4th string)
5th Chord
is____(the root note is on the 4th string)
24. Which Of The
Following Is The 3rd Finger?
Ring finger of your chord hand
Index finger of your chord hand
Baby finger of your chord hand
Middle finger of your chord hand
Answer: ____________________
25. Which String Is
Known
As The First String?
String G
String E
String A
Answer: _________
26. What Is Guitar
Tab?
27. Name One Benefit
Of
Learning Guitar Tab?
28. What Does The
Numbers On The Guitar Chord Chart
Represent?
29. What Are Musical
Notes?
30. List The Notes In
The
C Chromatic Scale?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
31. What Are Scales?
32. How Are Scales
Used
By Musical Composers?
33. Describe What The
Guitar Fretboard Diagram Is?
34. Describe Music
Notation
35. Describe Guitar
Tabs
36. List The Weakness
Of
Just Using Guitar Tabs?
37. What Chord Is
Displayed As An arpeggio?
-----------------3--
--------------0-----
-----------0--------
--------0-----------
-----2--------------
--3-----------------
Answer : _________
38. If Ionian Mode Is
The
First Mode List The Other 6 Modes?
1 - Ionian Mode
2 -
3 -
4 -
5 -
6 -
7 -
39. Describe Time
Signatures?
40. List 3 Simple Time
Signatures
41. List 3 Compound
Time
Signatures?
42. Describe Rhythm?
43. List 4 Dynamics Of
Rhythm?
44. List 7 Note Names
45. Which Number
Determines The Number Of Beats Per Bar; The Top Or The Bottom?
46. How Many Crotchets
In
1 Bar Of 4/4 Time?
47. Describe Triplet
Time?
48. Which Musicians
Need
To Learn Rhythm?
49. What Are Power
Chords?
50. List Guitar Styles
That Use Power Chords?
51. Which Of The
Following Is True?
(1) The Power
Chord is a major triad
(2) The Power
Chord is not a triad
(3) The Power
Chord is a minor triad
(4) The Power
Chord is both a Major & Minor triad
Answer:
_________________________
52. How Many Different
Notes Does A Power Chord Have?
(1) A Power Chord
has 1 Note
(2) A Power Chord
has 2 Notes
(3) A Power Chord
has 3 Notes
(4) A Power Chord
has 5 Notes
Answer: ________
53. Which One Is A
Power
Chord?
(1) Cm
(2) C6
(3) C5
(4) C9
Answer: ________
54. Which Power Chord
Progression Is Based Upon The C Aeolian Mode?
(1) C5, F5, G5,
(2) C5, Eb, Db,
(3) Bb, Ab, Gb,
(4) Cm, Ddim, Eb,
Answer:
___________
55. List The Type Of C
Scale That Each Chord Progression Belongs To?
(1) C5, F5, G5,
Answer: ________
(2) C5, Eb, Db,
Answer: ________
(3) Bb, Ab, Gb,
Answer: ________
(4) Cm, Ddim, Eb,
Answer: ________
56. Describe A Guitar
Scale?
57. What Is The
Importance Of A Guitar Scale?
58. Which Scale Are
All
Scales Drawn From?
59. List Five Scales?
Scale 1
Answer:
Scale 2
Answer:
Scale 3
Answer:
Scale 4
Answer:
Scale 5
Answer:
60. Complete The List
Of
Related Modes?
If Position 1 is:
Answer: C Ionian
Mode
If Position 2 is:
Answer: D Dorian
Mode
Position 3 is:
Answer:
Position 4 is:
Answer:
Position 5 is:
Answer:
Position 6 is:
Answer:
Position 7 is:
Answer:
61. What Modes
&
Scales Are Great For Jazz Music
62. Identify The
Following Mode & Scale Templates?
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, b2, b3, 4, b5,
b6, b7
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, b3, 4, b5, 5,
b7,
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, 2, 3, #4, 5, 6,
7,
Answer:
The Mode Or
Scale Guitar Theory Practice Tests
Template is:
1, 2, b3, 4, 5,
b6, 7
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
b7,
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, 2, b3, 4, 5,
b6, b7,
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, 2, b3, 4, 5, 6,
7,
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, 2, 3, 5, 6,
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, 2, b3, 4, 5, 6,
b7
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, b3, 4, 5, b7
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7,
Answer:
The Mode Or Scale
Template is:
1, b2, b3, 4, 5,
b6, b7,
Answer:
63. Find The Two
Pentatonic Templates?
Major Pentatonic
Scale Answer Options
(1) 1, 2, 3, 4, 7,
(2) 1, 3, 5, 6, 7,
(3) 1, 2, 3, 5, 6,
(4) 1, 2, 4, 6, 7,
Answer:
Minor Pentatonic
Scale Answer Options
(1) 1, b2, b3, 4,
7,
(2) 1, b3, 4, 5,
b7,
(3) 1, 2, b3, b5,
6,
(4) 1, 2, 4, b6, 7,
Answer:
64. What Modes Or
Scales
Create The Following Moods?
Happy Or Upbeat
Feel
Answer:
Sad Feel
Answer:
Great For Reggae
Style
Answer:
Creates Tension
Answer:
Creates A Bluesy
Feel
Answer:
Creates a Jazzy
Feel
Answer:
Great For Rock
Styles
Answer:
65. Which Of The
Following Is The Major Scale Template?
(1) 2, 2, 1, 2, 2,
1, 2,
(2) 1, 2, 2, 2, 1,
2, 2,
(3) 2, 1, 2, 2, 2,
1, 2
(4) 2, 2, 1, 2, 2,
2, 1
Answer:
66. Which Of The
Following Is The Minor Scale Template?
(1) 2, 2, 1, 2, 2,
1, 2,
(2) 1, 2, 2, 2, 1,
2, 2,
(3) 2, 1, 2, 2, 1,
2, 2,
(4) 2, 2, 1, 2, 2,
2, 1,
Answer:
67. Write A Modal
Interchange Chord Progression
In The Key Of D?
68. Which Chord Is
Drawn
From The Minor Scale?
C, Ddim, F, G,
Answer:
69. Write The
Following
Chord Progression & Replace Any Chords From Ionian With Aeolian
Chords?
C, Ddim, F, Ab, G,
Answer:
70. Write The
Following
Chord Progression & Replace Any Chords From Aeolian With Ionian
Chords?
C, Ddim, F, Ab, G,
Answer:
71. Which Of The
Following Chords Are From The C Ionian Mode?
Cadd9, CM9,
Dm6add9, Em7aug5th, Bdim, Eb11#7, Gm7m9.
Answer:
72. Which Of The
Following Chords Are From The C Aeolian Mode?
cadd9, CM9,
Dm6add9, Em7aug5th, Bdim, Eb11#7, Gm7m9.
Answer
73. Alter the
Following C
Major Scale Chord Progression By Replacing Minor Chords With Major
Chords From
The C Minor Scale?
CHORDS: Cadd9,
CM9, Dm9, Em7aug5th, Bdim
74. What Is Pitch Axis
Theory? Creating chord
progressions from chords drawn from a variety of scales & modes
that all
share the same tonal centre such as C.
75. How Does Pitch
Axis
Work?
76. Which Of The
Following Is An Example Of Pitch Axis?
(1) CM7, FM7, Am7,
(2) CM7, F7, Am7,
(3) CM7, Bm7b5, G7,
(4) CM7, Dm7, Bdim,
Answer:
77. Which Of The
Following Is Not A Diatonic Chord Progression?
(1) CM7, FM7, Am7,
(2) CM7, F7, Am7,
(3) CM7, Bm7b5, G7,
(4) CM7, Dm7, Bdim,
Answer:
78. How Many Of The
Following Scales Are Major Scales?
Ionian Mode
Dorian Mode
Phrygian Mode
Lydian Mode
Mixolydian Mode
Aeolian Mode
Locrian Mode
Major Pentatonic
Scale
Minor Pentatonic
Scale
Blues Scale
Melodic Minor Scale
Harmonic Minor
Scale
Is the answer: 2,
4, 6, 8,
Answer:
79. Pitch Axis
Involves
The Use Of Chords That?
(1) are
diatonically related
(2) are sometimes
diatonically related
(3) are not
diatonically related
(4) must have at
least two that are diatonically related
Answer:
80. What Three Modes
Or
Scales Are Used In This Pitch Axis Chord Progression?
CmM7, Em7b5, Ddim.
Answer
81. List One Major
Mode
& One Minor Mode That Can Be Used In Pitch Axis To Create The
Following
Moods?
Happy Feel
Answer:
Tension
Answer:
82. Which Chord Is
Found
In Both The C Ionian Mode & The C Harmonic Minor Scale?
CM7, Dm7, Em7,
FM7, G7, Am7, Bm7b5,
Answer:
83. Name Five Artists
That Use Pitch Axis?
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
84. Lists Seven Guitar
Styles?
85. List Eight
Elements
Involved In Creating Musical Styles?
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
86. What Chords Are
Associated With The Following Guitar Styles?
Rock
Answer:
Jazz
Answer:
Blues
Answer:
Funk
Answer:
87. List The Most
Common
Guitar Effects Used In The Following Guitar Styles?
Rock
Answer:
Jazz
Answer:
Blues
Answer:
Funk
Answer:
88. What Guitar Sound
Do
The Following Guitar Styles Often Use?
Rock
Answer:
Jazz
Answer:
Blues
Answer:
Funk
Answer:
89. List The Guitar
Techniques Often Associated With The Following Guitar Styles?
Rock
Answer:
Jazz
Answer:
Blues
Answer:
Funk
Answer:
90. What Scales Are
Often
Used To Create The Following Guitar Styles?
Rock
Answer:
Jazz
Answer:
Blues
Answer:
Funk
Answer:
91. What Rhythms Are
Often Used To Create The Following Guitar Styles?
Rock
Answer:
Jazz
Answer:
Blues
Answer:
Funk
Answer:
92. List The
Instruments
Often Used To Create The Following Guitar Styles?
Rock
Answer:
Jazz
Answer:
Blues
Answer:
Funk
Answer:
93. List Three Types
Of
Guitar Amplifier?
(1)
(2)
(3)
94. Complete The
Following Over 4/4 Timing?
Semiquaver lasts
for ____ beat
Hemidemisemiquaver lasts
for ____ beat
Semibreve lasts
for ____ beats
Crotchet lasts for
____ beat
Minim lasts for ____ beats
Quaver lasts for
____ beat
Demisemiquaver
lasts for ____ beat
Possible Answers
1
2
4
8
16
32
64
95. Complete The A
Chromatic Scale?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
#
A#
A
B
b
Bb
96. How Might You Use
The
Chromatic Scale?
97. Describe Modal
Interchange?
98. Describe Pitch
Axis?
List The Following Scale Templates?
Ionian Mode:
Dorian Mode:
Phrygian Mode:
Lydian Mode:
Mixolydian Mode:
Aeolian Mode:
Locrian Mode:
Blues Scale:
Major Pentatonic
Scale:
Minor Pentatonic
Scale:
Harmonic Minor
Scale:
Melodic (Jazz)
Minor Scale:
99. What Is The
Relative
Minor Scale To E Major Scale?
100. What Is The
Relative Major Scale To
E Minor Scale?
101. Enter The Notes In
The Fretboard?
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102. What Notes Make Up
The Following Chords?
Bm7b5
G6
FM7
A5
E Major 9
C Major 13
B7
Esus4
F6
C9
103. List The
Notes & Intervals That Make Up The Following Chords?
Chord
Notes
Intervals
C Major:
C Minor:
C Diminished:
C Augmented:
C Sus 2:
C Sus 4:
C Add 9:
C5:
C6:
C6 add 9:
C7:
C7 sus 2:
C7 sus 4:
C7 b5:
C9:
C9 sus 4:
C11:
C9 b5:
C13:
CMajor 7:
CMajor 7 b5:
CMajor 7 #11:
CMajor 9:
CMajor 13:
C minor major 7:
C minor 6:
C minor 7:
C minor 9:
C minor 11:
C minor 13:
C minor 7 b5:
104. List The Relative
Modes To D Ionian Mode?
(1) D Ionian mode
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
105. List The Chords In
The Following Progressions?
D Aeolian Mode
Triads:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Eb Mixolydian Mode
Triads:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
G Locrian Mode
Triads:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Bb Harmonic Minor
Scale Triads:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Ab Melodic Minor
Scale Triads:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
106. List The 7th
Chords In The Following Progressions?
D Aeolian Mode 7th
Chords:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Eb Mixolydian Mode
7th Chords:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
G Locrian Mode 7th
Chords:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Bb Harmonic Minor
Scale 7th Chords:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Ab Melodic Minor
Scale 7th Chords:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
107. What Is The
Difference Between Modes & Scales
108. What Mode Does
These Chords Belong To?
Bdim C
Dm
Em
F
G
Am
Bdim
109. Which Chord Is The
Odd One Out?
Mode: E Phrygian
Mode:
Em F
G
Am
Bdim
C
D
Em
110. What Are
Parallel Modes?
Answer
111. What 5 Notes Make
Up The E Major Pentatonic Scale?
1
2
3
4
5
112. What 5 Notes Make
Up The F Minor Pentatonic Scale?
1
2
3
4
5

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