EDQ by Oparachukwu Test I

A Free Copy of
the Every
Drummer’s
Questionnaire
by
Oparachukwu
Joshua Ayodeji
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PREFACE
Every Drummer’s Questionnaire may very well be the most inspiring and the very best of
tools in the market, capable of challenging you to better yourself and know more about your
much beloved instrument - the drums.
Every Drummer’s Questionnaire is a Drum Book filled to brim with highly intellectual
questions, One Thousand of them, all of it tightly packed and packaged to serve your
interests.
While this is a FREE copy carrying about 100 Questions extracted from the original Book of
1000 questions, this FREE book will still provide value to you and cause you to learn new
things.
To purchase the full book (it is a token N1000 or $3) detailing all 1000 Questions and their
answers, useful for drum teachers/drum students/for personal study/for enlightenment and
many other noble purposes, please go here:
You will find both books very Useful.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Oparachukwu Joshua Ayodeji, is a regular at more than he can count Webinars,

Drum Clinics, Music Workshops, Music seminars and more. He is the author of A Hand
Guide to Chops Development, The 31-Days Drummer Practice Plan, Every Drummer’s
Questionnaire, and the brain behind the WhatsApp styled Q&A DUTA service for
Drummers called ‘Asks Oparachukwu’. Oparachukwu is widely acclaimed and is very
highly respected in Nigeria and far across.
You can email him directly at: [email protected], like his personal facebook
page at www.facebook.com/theoparachukwu and or follow him on
Instagram:@the_Oparachukwu if you want to, and like the good stuff.
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I Want To Hear From You
As a User of the EDQ, and especially this free copy, you are my most valued critic
and important commentator. I do value your opinion and would want to know what exactly;
this book is doing right for you, how you think I can make it better, and what areas you think
I should focus on in subsequent editions.
Whatever words of wisdom and encouragement you would like to pass on to me too are much
welcome too.
You can email me directly at [email protected] or just even send me a

WhatsApp Message directly on +2347062322202 and I would only be too glad to respond
This is the free copy. You can get the whole book here for a stipend through this link:
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HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
TEST INSTRUCTION AND GUIDELINES
The Test Questions are a total of 1000 questions covering a broad range of topics including but not
limited to Gear, Musicianship, Music Theory, Live Playing Situations, Music History, Drum
Companies, and so much more. This is just a sample extract bearing 100 sample questions and they
are given FREE to give you something to work with.
The Test questions can be self-administered, and have been carefully divided into a total of Two
different tests in this Free Sample, with each test bearing 50 questions.
On average, it should take you about 20-25 seconds to answer any one of the test questions, and so an
average of 25 minutes on any given test.
Much more than getting answers right or wrong please make sure to learn for that’s the goal.
This is a free copy. Please get the whole book here for a stipend N1000/$3 through this
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TEST ONE
25 Minutes
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12 The Percussionist who creates and accompanies music using drums is called
(a) a drummer
(b) a cymbalist
(c) a player
(d) a percussionist
1 Drum sizes are typically expressed as ____
(a) depth X diameter
(b) depth X centimeter
(c) diameter X centimeter
(d) inches X centimeter
9 When the attack or accents of a note or pattern of notes falls on the ''offbeat'', it is often called
a/an ____
(a)a drum fill
(b) a lick
(c) an off time
(d) a syncopation
43 Technically, how many quarter notes can you play in a bar of 5/8?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 2
3 Who is a Musician?
(a) Someone who has undergone a course in Music
(b) Someone who is able to read Music
(c) Someone who has making music as their Job

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(d) Someone who has dexterity on an instrument
14 One of the following is not snare drum hardware
(a) clutch
(b) tension rod
(c) snare strainer
(d) grommet
115 Which of the following is correct
(a) the ghost note comes before the principal note
(b) the ghost note comes after the principal note
(c) the ghost note comes together with the principal note
(d) none of the above is correct
5 In your opinion, the oldest percussion instrument category in history is the ____
(a) organophone
(b) membranophone
(c) idiophone
(d) chordophone
16 What part of the cymbal would produce the highest possible pitch after it has been struck
maybe twice?
(a) the edge
(b) the bow
(c) the bell
(d) the rim
77 The correct spelling of the following is the option number ____
(a) tymphani
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(b) timphani
(c) tympanii
(d) timpani
57 In setting up a typical drum kit with two rack toms, the drum with the highest possible tone
would be the ____
(a) hi tom
(b) mid tom
(c) snare drum
(d) floor tom
7 A key difference between a snare drum and a tom tom most likely would be the ____
(a) size
(b) drum skins
(c) snares
(d) counter hoops
24 One of the following objects is of indefinite pitch
(a) a plucked string
(b) the timpani
(c) a cymbal
(d) the bass guitar
18 Typically, the larger a cymbal is, the ____ the cymbal’s sustain will be
(a) shorter
(b) longer
(c) bulkier
(d) fancier
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20 One key difference between a hihat clutch and a drop clutch is that
(a) the drop clutch allows the hihat to stay closed during double bass playing
(b) the hihat clutch allows the drop clutch to open and close, back and forth by itself during
double bass playing
(c) the drop clutch allows the hihat to open and close, back and forth by itself during double
bass drumming
(d) all of the above
66 One of the following drummer names is a Promark Artist as at June 2018
(a) Neil Peart
(b) Adam Tuminaro
(c) Jojo Mayer
(d) Rod Morgenstein
25 Thin cymbals normally would have a ____ pitch than other cymbals
(a) higher
(b) softer
(c) shorter
(d) longer
60 If `R` is a ghost note and R means Right while L means Left, what’s the sticking of The
Flamacue?
(a) L RL R L
(b) RL R L R R
(c) LR L R R LR
(d) LR L R L LR
23 If you were on a show playing in 7/8 time. What kind of pulse would you most likely give the
music?
(a) a whole note pulse

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(b) a half note pulse
(c) a quarter note pulse
(d) an eight note pulse
111 A higher moisture content in a stick would definitely affect its ____
(a) weight
(b) durability
(c) weight and durability
(d) none of the above
38 The proper way to piggyback a cymbal would be to have the lower cymbal ____ and upper
cymbal ____
(a) bell down, bell up
(b) bells up, bells down
(c) all bells up
21 Shell wall thickness, Wood material, and Wood grain directions, do not really affect the
fundamental note of the bass drum. This statement is ____ in my opinion
(a) true
(b) false
(c) true and false
99 When you hear Vision, Decade Maple, Masters Custom and Masters Premium, what product
manufacturers should come to mind ____
(a) Pearl
(b) Mapex
(c) Sonor
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(d) Latin Percussion
42 A typical Tarol snare characteristically has its snare wires ____
(a) underneath the drum
(b) on the top of the drum
(c) on the right side of the drum
(d) on the left side of the drum
116 If you wrote out the Roll rudiments in their traditional form. They would take on the form
of/be made up of thirty second notes. This is statement is____
(a) partly false
(b) true
(c) false
(d) partly true
29 Thinking about it, straight eight notes can easily be said to be _____ than eight note triplets
(a) 25% slower
(b) 50% slower
(c) 75% faster
(d) 100% slow
58 If a set of four strokes have the first and last strokes as flams. This set of strokes would be a
____
(a) flam paradiddle
(b) flamadiddle
(c) pata-fla-fla
(d) flam accent
45 One of the following statements is true. Make your choice.
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(a) Only the seventeen stroke roll uses eight notes and sixteenth notes
(b) Only the seventeen stroke roll uses a half note and a quarter note
(c) Only the ten stroke roll uses a half note and a quarter note
(d) Only the eleven stroke roll never makes use of sixteenth notes
67 One of the following names is of a Vic Firth Artist
(a) Jared Falk
(b) Neil Peart
(c) Troy Miller
(d) Matt Abts
(a) cressendo
(b) crescendo
(c) crecsendo
(d) cresendo
28 The correct spelling of old time and legend drum producers is the option number ____
(a) gretsch
(b) gretchs
(c) gretcsh
(d) grestch
62 If `R` is a ghost note and R means Right while L means Left, what’s the sticking of The Single
Ratamacue?
(a) RRL R L R RL
(b) LLR L R L
(c) LLR R L L R
(d) RRL L R L RL
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80 In the conventional numbering of drum sticks, the numbers are said to represent ___
(a) the diameter
(b) the tip
(c) the circumference
(d) tip and diameter
79 Of the options below, one of them would be of the most probable lightest stick weight
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 7
(d) 3
92 The drum company associated with the Falcon Pedals, Black Panther Snare Drums and the
Tornado is the drum company of ____
(a) Yamaha
(b) Mapex
(c) Pearl
(d) Roland
114 One of the following is not the kind of advice you would naturally give a student under you...
(a) play with written accents
(b) play without written accents
(c) vary the tempo of the materials
(d) play frequently without a time device
65 In your Opinion, you would say the flam accent has a default time signature of ___
(a) 6/8
(b) 5/4
(c) 2/4
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(d) 4/4
76 The way you’re feeling right now, the correct spelling is the option number ____
(a) ascending
(b) acsending
(c) ascsending
(d) asccending
98 The flat ride is an innovation of one of the following drum companies
(a) Meinl
(b) Yamaha
(c) Paiste
(d) Sabian
69 A note played for one sixteenth of the duration of a whole note would be called a/an ____
(a) 1/8 note
(b) 1/16 note
(c) ¼ note
(d) ½ note
102 The ImperialStar, SilverStar, Superstar, and Starclassic are products of one of the following
drum companies.
(a) Yamaha
(b) Tama
(c) Sonor
(d) DW
72 A time signature found at mid score indicates that there’s ____
(a) a change of music style

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(b) a change of meter
(c) introduction of a second accompaniment
(d) a count in or a count off
108 Generally speaking, the Clave is to Salsa Music what the One drop would be to ____
(a) dance hall music
(b) reggae music
(c) rumba music
(d) hip life music
112 In music, sound is measure in____
(a) beldecs
(b) decibels
(c) decbels
(d) revs
68 The genre of music that uses the ‘one drop’ of the options given below is the ____ genre of
music
(a) the reggae genre of music
(b) the swing genre of music
(c) the rock genre of music
106 _____ is called a Slave in a drum kit
(a) the mixing console of an electric drum
(b) the resonant head of the bass drum
(c) the double bass pedal without a beater
(d) underneath the drummers throne
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113 In performance music, a musician is said to employ the use of ___ when volume is varied so
as to communicate feeling
(a) the strophic
(b) theme and variation
(c) dynamics
(d) inversions
107 The small snare drum looking amplifier, often placed in front of the bass drum is called ____
(a) a sub lick
(b) a sub kick
(c) a monitor
(d) a parlance
78 If you halved the length of notes of a piece originally written in 3/4, the resultant time of the
signature would be a ____ time signature
(a) 12/8 time sig
(b) ¾ time sig
(c) 3/8 time sig
(d) 4/4 time sig
117 In breezing through the sheet music and as you play it, when you see a _____, it means the
music ends there.
(a) single thick bar line
(b) single thin bar line
(c) double bar line
(d) double chorus
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ANSWERS
12 The Percussionist who creates and accompanies music using drums is called
(a) a drummer
(b) a cymbalist
(c) a player
(d) a percussionist
1 Drum sizes are typically expressed as ____
(a) depth X diameter
(b) depth X centimeter
(c) diameter X centimeter
(d) inches X centimeter
9 When the attack or accents of a note or pattern of notes falls on the ''offbeat'', it is often called
a/an ____
(a)a drum fill
(b) a lick
(c) an off time
(d) a syncopation
43 Technically, how many quarter notes can you play in a bar of 5/8?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 2
3 Who is a Musician?
(a) Someone who has undergone a course in Music

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(b) Someone who is able to read Music
(c) Someone who has making music as their Job
(d) Someone who has dexterity on an instrument
14 One of the following is not snare drum hardware
(a) clutch
(b) tension rod
(c) snare strainer
(d) grommet
115 Which of the following is correct
(a) the ghost note comes before the principal note
(b) the ghost note comes after the principal note
(c) the ghost note comes together with the principal note
(d) none of the above is correct
5 In your opinion, the oldest percussion instrument category in history is the ____
(a) organophone
(b) membranophone
(c) idiophone
(d) chordophone
16 What part of the cymbal would produce the highest possible pitch after it has been struck
maybe twice?
(a) the edge
(b) the bow
(c) the bell
(d) the rim
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(a) tymphani
(b) timphani
(c) tympanii
(d) timpani
57 In setting up a typical drum kit with two rack toms, the drum with the highest possible tone
would be the ____
(a) hi tom
(b) mid tom
(c) snare drum
(d) floor tom
7 A key difference between a snare drum and a tom tom most likely would be the ____
(a) size
(b) drum skins
(c) snares
(d) counter hoops
24 One of the following objects is of indefinite pitch
(a) a plucked string
(b) the timpani
(c) a cymbal
(d) the bass guitar
18 Typically, the larger a cymbal is, the ____ the cymbal’s sustain will be
(a) shorter
(b) longer
(c) bulkier
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(d) fancier
20 One key difference between a hihat clutch and a drop clutch is that
(a) the drop clutch allows the hihat to stay closed during double bass playing
(b) the hihat clutch allows the drop clutch to open and close, back and forth by itself during
double bass playing
(c) the drop clutch allows the hihat to open and close, back and forth by itself during double
bass drumming
66 One of the following drummer names is a Promark Artist as at June 2018
(a) Neil Peart
(b) Adam Tuminaro
(c) Jojo Mayer
(d) Rod Morgenstein
25 Thin cymbals normally would have a ____ pitch than other cymbals
(a) higher
(b) softer
(c) shorter
(d) longer
60 If `R` is a ghost note and R means Right while L means Left, what’s the sticking of The
Flamacue?
(a) L RL R L
(b) RL R L R R
(c) LR L R R LR
(d) LR L R L LR
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23 If you were on a show playing in 7/8 time. What kind of pulse would you most likely give the
music?
(a) a whole note pulse
(b) a half note pulse
(c) a quarter note pulse
(d) an eight note pulse
111 A higher moisture content in a stick would definitely affect its ____
(a) weight
(b) durability
(c) weight and durability
38 The proper way to piggyback a cymbal would be to have the lower cymbal ____ and upper
cymbal ____
(a) bell down, bell up
(b) bells up, bells down
(c) all bells up
21 Shell wall thickness, Wood material, and Wood grain directions, do not really affect the
fundamental note of the bass drum. This statement is ____ in my opinion
(a) true
(b) false
(c) true and false
99 When you hear Vision, Decade Maple, Masters Custom and Masters Premium, what product
manufacturers should come to mind ____
(a) Pearl
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(b) Mapex
(c) Sonor
(d) Latin Percussion
42 A typical Tarol snare characteristically has its snare wires ____
(a) underneath the drum
(b) on the top of the drum
(c) on the right side of the drum
(d) on the left side of the drum
116 If you wrote out the Roll rudiments in their traditional form. They would take on the form
of/be made up of thirty second notes. This is statement is____
(a) partly false
(b) true
(c) false
(d) partly true
29 Thinking about it, straight eight notes can easily be said to be _____ than eight note triplets
(a) 25% slower
(b) 50% slower
(c) 75% faster
(d) 100% slow
58 If a set of four strokes have the first and last strokes as flams. This set of strokes would be a
____
(a) flam paradiddle
(b) flamadiddle
(c) pata-fla-fla
(d) flam accent
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45 One of the following statements is true. Make your choice.
(a) Only the seventeen stroke roll uses eight notes and sixteenth notes
(b) Only the seventeen stroke roll uses a half note and a quarter note
(c) Only the ten stroke roll uses a half note and a quarter note
(d) Only the eleven stroke roll never makes use of sixteenth notes
67 One of the following names is of a Vic Firth Artist
(a) Jared Falk
(b) Neil Peart
(c) Troy Miller
(d) Matt Abts
(a) cressendo
(b) crescendo
(c) crecsendo
(d) cresendo
28 The correct spelling of old time and legend drum producers is the option number ____
(a) gretsch
(b) gretchs
(c) gretcsh
(d) grestch
62 If `R` is a ghost note and R means Right while L means Left, what’s the sticking of The Single
Ratamacue?
(a) RRL R L R RL
(b) LLR L R L
(c) LLR R L L R
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(d) RRL L R L RL
80 In the conventional numbering of drum sticks, the numbers are said to represent ___
(a) the diameter
(b) the tip
(c) the circumference
(d) tip and diameter
79 Of the options below, one of them would be of the most probable lightest stick weight
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 7
(d) 3
92 The drum company associated with the Falcon Pedals, Black Panther Snare Drums and the
Tornado is the drum company of ____
(a) Yamaha
(b) Mapex
(c) Pearl
(d) Roland
114 One of the following is not the kind of advice you would naturally give a student under you...
(a) play with written accents
(b) play without written accents
(c) vary the tempo of the materials
(d) play frequently without a time device
65 In your Opinion, you would say the flam accent has a default time signature of ___
(a) 6/8
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(b) 5/4
(c) 2/4
(d) 4/4
76 The way you’re feeling right now, the correct spelling is the option number ____
(a) ascending
(b) acsending
(c) ascsending
(d) asccending
98 The flat ride is an innovation of one of the following drum companies
(a) Meinl
(b) Yamaha
(c) Paiste
(d) Sabian
69 A note played for one sixteenth of the duration of a whole note would be called a/an ____
(a) 1/8 note
(b) 1/16 note
(c) ¼ note
(d) ½ note
102 The ImperialStar, SilverStar, Superstar, and Starclassic are products of one of the following
drum companies.
(a) Yamaha
(b) Tama
(c) Sonor
(d) DW
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72 A time signature found at mid score indicates that there’s ____
(a) a change of music style
(b) a change of meter
(c) introduction of a second accompaniment
(d) a count in or a count off
108 Generally speaking, the Clave is to Salsa Music what the One drop would be to ____
(a) dance hall music
(b) reggae music
(c) rumba music
(d) hip life music
112 In music, sound is measure in____
(a) beldecs
(b) decibels
(c) decbels
(d) revs
68 The genre of music that uses the ‘one drop’ of the options given below is the ____ genre of
music
(a) the reggae genre of music
(b) the swing genre of music
(c) the rock genre of music
106 _____ is called a Slave in a drum kit
(a) the mixing console of an electric drum
(b) the resonant head of the bass drum
(c) the double bass pedal without a beater

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(d) underneath the drummers throne
113 In performance music, a musician is said to employ the use of ___ when volume is varied so
as to communicate feeling
(a) the strophic
(b) theme and variation
(c) dynamics
(d) inversions
107 The small snare drum looking amplifier, often placed in front of the bass drum is called ____
(a) a sub lick
(b) a sub kick
(c) a monitor
(d) a parlance
78 If you halved the length of notes of a piece originally written in 3/4, the resultant time of the
signature would be a ____ time signature
(a) 12/8 time sig
(b) ¾ time sig
(c) 3/8 time sig
(d) 4/4 time sig
117 In breezing through the sheet music and as you play it, when you see a _____, it means the
music ends there.
(a) single thick bar line
(b) single thin bar line
(c) double bar line
(d) double chorus
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1 Drum sizes are typically expressed as ____

(a) depth X diameter

(b) depth X centimeter

(c) diameter X centimeter

(d) inches X centimeter

(a)a drum fill

(c) an off time

(a) Someone who has undergone a course in Music

(b) Someone who is able to read Music

(c) Someone who has making music as their Job

14 One of the following is not snare drum hardware

(b) tension rod

(c) snare strainer

115 Which of the following is correct

(a) the ghost note comes before the principal note

(b) the ghost note comes after the principal note

(d) none of the above is correct

(a) the edge

(b) the bow

(c) the bell

(d) the rim

77 The correct spelling of the following is the option number ____

(b) mid tom

(c) snare drum

(d) floor tom

(b) drum skins

(d) counter hoops

24 One of the following objects is of indefinite pitch

(a) a plucked string

(b) the timpani

(d) the bass guitar

(d) all of the above

66 One of the following drummer names is a Promark Artist as at June 2018

(a) Neil Peart

(b) Adam Tuminaro

(c) Jojo Mayer

(d) Rod Morgenstein

(a) a whole note pulse

(c) a quarter note pulse

(d) an eight note pulse

(c) weight and durability

(d) none of the above

(a) bell down, bell up

(b) bells up, bells down

(c) all bells up

(d) none of the above

(c) true and false

(d) none of the above

42 A typical Tarol snare characteristically has its snare wires ____

(a) underneath the drum

(b) on the top of the drum

(c) on the right side of the drum

(d) on the left side of the drum

(a) partly false

(d) partly true

(a) 25% slower