Homework 2012-2013 C3 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the key signature of the original version of "Ordinary People" from Get Lifted?
2. Why did John Legend change it for live performance?
3. What are the three chords used in "Ordinary People"?
4. What is it about those chords that makes them sound sophisticated?

Homework #14
Answer the following questions:
1. In musical notation what is the value of a note that gets 4 beats?
2. What does a half note look like?
3. When writing music how do you decide what side of the note head the stem goes on?
4. How do write 4 sixteenth notes in a row?

Homework #15
Answer the following questions:
1. How do you play a closed roll on drums?
2. What is a paradiddle?
3. What does the dominant hand do for most beats on the drum set?
4. What rhythm does the snare drum play in most pop music?

Due Friday May 3rd or Friday May 10th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following questions:
1. What is an arpeggio?
2. What is an octave?
3. What are scale degrees?
4. What is the scale degree of fa?


Homework #11
Answer the following questions about Fur Elise:
1. What are the notes the first figure that the left hand part plays?
2. What are the scale degrees of those notes?
3. In the second figure of the right hand what direction does the arpeggio go?
4. What does the left hand part have in common with John Legend's "Ordinary People"?

Homework #12
1. What are drum rudiments?
2. Who invented them?
3. What was their original purpose?
4. What are the two most common ways to hold a drumstick?

Due Friday April 26 or Friday May 3 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #7-9

Answer the following questions:

Homework #7
1. What was the original title of Fur Elise?
2. What notes are in an A minor chord?
3. Who is the "Elise" in "Fur Elise" rumored to be?

4. What is the 5th (so) of the key of A minor?

Homework #8
1. What are the two chords the A section of Fur Elise is based around?

2. What are the first 6 notes of the left hand part of Fur Elise?
3. What does the left hand do during the second chord?
4. What is one difference in the two endings of the A section?

Homework #9
1. What key does the B section of Fur Elise briefly go to?
2. What piano technique is used to play the first four notes of the B section?
3. How is the left hand part in the B section similar to the left hand in the A section?

4. How many sections are there in Fur Elise and how can they be described?

Due Friday April 19 or Friday April 26 by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #4-6

Homework #4
Answer the following question:
What are the 7 most important rules for piano fingering?

Homework #5

Answer the following question:

Why are the black notes sometimes called sharps and sometimes called flats?

Homework #6

Answer the following questions:

1. What is an inversion?

2. What are the first and second inversions?

3. If it hurts or you get a cramp while playing the piano what should you do?

4. Why is the key of C the most popular key for beginning piano players to play in?

Due Friday, October 5, 2012 or Friday, October 12 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #1-3

Homework #1

Answer the following questions:
1. What connects the strings to the body of a guitar?
2. What is the number of the thickest string?
3. What is the main difference between an electric and acoustic guitar?
4. If you are right handed, what hand do you fret the guitar with?

Homework #2

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the first thing you must do to tune a guitar?
2. What can you use to help you tune the guitar?
3. What is each string tuned to in open D tuning?
4. What is one song that uses open D tuning?

Homework #3
Answer the following questions:
1. What is each string tuned to in standard tuning on the guitar?
2. What is it called when you lightly touch and play a string?
3. What is another way to play the guitar besides fretting it?
4. What is a power chord?

Due Friday April 12 or Friday April 19 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)