Homework 2013-2014 C1 #19-21

Homework #19
Answer the following questions from the movie "Drumline":
1. What does the drum clef look like in drum notation?
2. What is the sticking for the "don't look down" exercise from "Drumline"?
3. What is the secret to playing it fast?
4. How do they each end the exercise?

Homework #20
Answer the following questions about the drum set:
1. What does the dominant hand do in the basic rock beat?
2. What does the other hand do?
3. What does the bass drum do?
4. When do you usually change it up?


Homework #21
Answer the following questions about drum circles:
1. What is a drum circle?
2. What instruments are usually found in drum circles?
3. What it the object of a drum circle?
4. What are the different ways you can play a cabasa?

Due Friday November 1st or Friday November 8th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #16-18

Homework #16
Answer the following questions:
1. Where did bachata music come from?
2. Who are some of the stars of bachata music?
3. What special device do most bachata guitar players use?
4. What are some of the other instruments heard in bachata?

Homework #17
Answer the following questions:
1. Who are some of the pioneers in electric guitar?
2. What is palm muting on the guitar?
3. Why is tuning such an issue with playing the guitar?
4. What was Jimi Hendrix most known for?


Homework #18
Answer the following questions:
1. What is double picking?
2. How do you play melodies when you double pick?
3. What genres of music would you find double-picking?
4. How do you hold the pick when you are double picking?

Due Friday October 25th or November 1st if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions:
1. What are some things you need to be able to do to read music?
2. What direction do you read music from?
3. What does it mean when there is a treble clef on the staff in traditional notation?
4. What does the foot pedal do on the piano?

Homework #14
Answer the following questions:
1. What rule of piano fingering do you have to break to play the intro arpeggio of Alicia Keys "If I Ain't Got You"?
2. How do you know what the key of a song is?
3. What key is "If I Ain't Got You" in?
4. What does the top number in the time signature stand for?

Homework #15
Answer the following questions:
1. Why does the opening notes of "Bella's Lullaby" (from the "Twilight" Movie) sound strange?
2. What is the key signature of the beginning of "Bella's Lullaby"?
3. What is difficult about the left hand part of "Bella's Lullaby"?
4. If you set you mind to do something there is nothing you can't do. What piece of music would you most like to be able to play?

Due Friday, October 18 or Friday, Oct 25 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #10-12

Homework #10

Answer the following questions:
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?

Homework #11

Answer the following questions:
1. In musical notation what is the name of a note that gets 4 beats?
2. What does a half note look like?
3. What are the parts of a sixteenth note in traditional notation?
4. How do write 4 sixteenth notes in a row?

Homework #12
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 October 11th or Friday October18th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)