Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Homework 2012-2013 C1 #4-6

Homework #4
Answer the following questions:
1. What notes are which strings tuned to in standard tuning on the guitar?
2. What notes are which strings tuned to in open D tuning?
3. What is the purpose of a capo?
4. In the song "Bubbly" what fret is the capo placed on?

Homework #5
Answer the following questions:
1. What notes are in an E power chord?
2. What is the shape of a power chord on the guitar?
3. What is palm muting?
4. What is cross picking?

Homework #6
Answer the following questions:
1. In a 12 bar blues how many bars does the first chord get?
2. How many bars does the second chord get?
3. In the key of C what are the 3 chords used in a 12 bar blues?
4. What chords get only 1 bar in a 12 bar blues?

Due Friday September 21st of Friday September 28 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Monday, September 10, 2012

Homework 2012-2013 C1 #1-3

Homework #1
List 5 questions about Pythagoras and his discoveries that you want to find the answers to.

Homework #2
Answer the following questions:
1. What were some of the activities of Pythagoras' followers?
2. What was one story about how he developed the scale?
3. How did he conduct his experiments on the harmonic series?
4. Besides his theorem and the scale what else did he study?

Homework #3
Answer the following questions:
1. What are the main parts of every guitar?
2. What is the number of the thickest string?
3. How many frets in an octave?
4. What is the order of operations for tuning the guitar?

Homework due by Friday September 14 or September 21 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)