EDM/Dubstep Musical Terms

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Across
  1. 3. A genre of dance music that originated in the 1970s in the US – stylised by the use of drums with a bassline, synths and guitar.
  2. 5. A musical term describing a measure of beats.
  3. 7. Added to the audio signal after a sound has been played to add richness or interest
  4. 10. The speed at which a piece of music is played. Measured in electronic dance music with Beats Per Minute (BPM).
  5. 12. A programmable electronic device able to imitate the sounds of a drum kit
  6. 15. A term used to describe a subset of music that has similar elements or sounds
  7. 16. A tension-building part of a song that signals a big change is about to happen, usually with drum rolls and sounds rising in pitch
  8. 17. The musical “note” of a sound. How high or low it sounds on the range of frequencies.
  9. 20. The structure and instrumentation of a song
  10. 21. It can be used to mean an entire piece of music (a song)
Down
  1. 1. An effect that removes specific frequencies from a sound’s tone.
  2. 2. began in Chicago through seminal artists such as Frankie Knuckles, took over other great cities in the United States (such as Detroit and New York)
  3. 4. A bass music genre characterised by half time 140bpm drum patterns with bass wobbles and heavy compression
  4. 6. A musical section that repeats continuously.
  5. 8. A recorded sound that is then played back
  6. 9. A genre of music popular in the UK which is similar to house, but features more of a break-beat type sound and is a little bit faster.
  7. 11. A common compressed audio file format. The higher the bitrate, the better they sound, but the larger the file size.
  8. 13. Someone who engages in music production
  9. 14. The section of a track that usually follows a break and a build
  10. 18. The main, underpinning percussive rhythm of a track
  11. 19. The first section of a song.