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Keyboard Patches
Synthesise sounds
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Celeste
An instrument that looks like a piano
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Vibrato
To vibrate
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Pizzicato
Plucking the strings of a stringed instrument
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Arco
To return to bowing after pizzicato
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Trumpet - straight mute
Cone shaped, put in the end of a trumpet to make the sound quieter
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Hand stopped (horn)
Closing off the bell of the horn with a cupped horn
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Guitar effect - Distortion
Using amps to create a stretched and twisted sound
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Guitar effect - Overdrive
Replaces plectrum and stimulates a string
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Guitar effect - Flange
Adds a delayed version of the input signal back into itself
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Guitar effect - Palm muting
Hitting the strings with your hands
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Guitar effect - 'Seek wah'
A guitar pedal
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Guitar effect - 'Wah wah'
A pedal that mimics the human voice
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Percussion - Bell tree
Consists of vertically nested inverted metal bowls
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Percussion - Chimes
Set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer
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Percussion - Crotales
Consists of a small tuned disk that are struck with a mallet
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Percussion - Tin maraca
A maraca with a tin outer
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Percussion - Nut rattle
Produces a sound when shaken
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Pedal-gliss (Timpani)
Achieved by operating the pedal shortly after the note has struck or whilst operating.
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Tremalo
Fast repetition of a note/two notes
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Card 2

Front

Celeste

Back

An instrument that looks like a piano

Card 3

Front

Vibrato

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Pizzicato

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Arco

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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