Homework 2013-2014 C3 #19-21

Homework #19
Answer the following questions about "I Can" by Nas:
1. What famous classical song is used as the melody?
2. What is different about this version from the classical piece?
3. How are the chords different from the original?
4. What drum beat does it copy from?

Homework #20
Answer the following questions about "All of Me" by John Legend:
1. What does this song have in common with "Ordinary People"?
2. What is one thing that gives the opening chords their power?
3. What are the two notes that the opening chord consists of?
4. What are the only white notes used in this song?

Homework #21
Answer the following questions about the songs we played last week:
1. How was the "Spanish" version of "All of Me" different?
2. What were the 2 chord shapes that we used in the "Spanish" version of "All of Me"?
3. What was the name of the special technique that the drum part used?
4. How was that drum sound achieved?

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Homework 2013-2014 C3 HW#16-18

Homework #16
Answer the following questions about drum history:
1. Who invented the drum rudiments?
2. What was their purpose?
3. Why are the two hands different in traditional grip?
4. Who invented the bass drum pedal?

Homework #17
Answer the following questions about drum rudiments:
1. How many rudiments were there originally?
2. What is a flam?
3. What is a drag?
4. What is the sticking for a paradiddle?

Homework #18
Answer the following questions about the drum set:
1. What does the dominant hand do in a basic rock beat?
2. What do they call a beat with a swing to it?
3. What beats does the snare drum usually play on?
4. What beat does the bass drum usually play?

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Homework 2013-2014 C3 HW#13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions about the guitar:
1. What are some things to make it easier to fret the guitar?
2. What are downstrokes?
3. What is double picking?
4. What do an A minor chord and an E major chord have in common?

Homework #14
Answer the following questions about power chords:
1. What well known rap song uses power chords?
2. What is the shape of a power chord?
3. Why do they call it a power chord?
4. What is palm muting?

Homework #15
Answer the following questions about TAB notation:
1. How many lines are used for TAB?
2. How do you know what notes the strings are tuned to?
3. Which string is which in TAB?
4. What is one thing not noted in TAB?

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Homework 2013-2014 C3 HW# 10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following questions about the guitar:
1. What are the names of the two things that attach the strings to the guitar?
2. What are the metal things on the fingerboard?
3. What are their purpose?
4. What are the numbers of the strings?

Homework #11
Answer the following questions about guitar tuning?
1. What are the notes in open D tuning?
2. What are the notes in standard tuning?
3. What does a capo do?
4. What key is the guitar in if it is open D and the capo is on the 7th fret?

Homework #12
Answer the following questions about the songs we played last week:
1. What key is "Bubbly" in?
2. What was the main difference between the simple version and the advanced?
3. What key is "I Got A Feeling" in?
4. What 2 frets is the entire guitar part played on?

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