Homework 2011-2012 C5 #10

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between a major and a minor chord?
2. What is the relative minor of a C major chord?
3. How can you find the relative minor or major of any chord?
4. What is a chord substitution?
5. What is the difference between a blue track in Garageband and a green one?

Homework due Friday April 27th, 2012

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #9

Answer the following questions:

1. How did Leonard find Etta James?

2. What did he do for her when he found out about her father?

3. What trouble did Chuck Berry get into after he was a star?

4. Who helped Muddy Waters get the recognition he deserved?

5. What happened to Little Walter?

6. What happened to Leonard Chess?

7. What did Leonard do for Etta James before he died?

8. Name three songs that you heard in the movie that are 12 bar blues?

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #8

Answer the following questions:

1. What was Little Walter's main instrument?

2. What did Muddy Waters think of Howling Wolf?

3. What was Little Walter's problem?

4. Why did Chuck Berry come to Chicago?

5. What happened when Chuck Berry's music was played on the radio?

6. Why was his music important for American culture?

7. What was happening to the other artists on Chess Records at the time?

8. What was happening in America in general at this time?

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #7

Homework #7

1. Who are the two men who start the movie Cadillac Records?

2. Why do some people in Chicago not like Muddy Waters' music at first?

3. What changed that helped him become popular?

4. What was Leonard Chess' original idea about how he was going to make money?

5. What was his main motivation then?

6. How did Leonard come to start his record label?

7. What was his first hit record?

8. What instruments did the musicians use mostly?

9. What happened to Leonard Chess' nightclub?

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #4-6

Homework #4

1. What is the Strophic form?
2. What are some other common song structures?
3. Why is the introduction to a song not considered essential?
4. What is the song structure called if it has no repeating sections?

Homework #5

1. What is number of bars for each chord in the 12 bar blues?
2. How many half steps are there between the 1 chord and the 4 chord?
3. Why is the five chord 7 half steps up but only 5 half steps down?
4. What is the most common lyric pattern for the 12 bar blues?

Homework #6

1. What are the differences in the two definitions of the song element "bridge"?
2. What is the "middle eight"?
3. What is a "collision" as a song structural element?
4. What is a "coda"?

Due Thursday April 5 or Friday April 20 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)