Homework 2014-2015 C1 #16-18

Homework #16
Answer the following questions about the Country Blues Lesson:
1. Where did you start your road trip through the sharecropping south?
2. When did the great flood of 1927 start and how long did it last?
3. Why was the South so poor after the Civil War?
4. Why was Mississippi a good place for cotton?

Homework #17
Answer the following questions about drumming:
1. What kind of notes are counted 1and 2and 3and 4?
2. How do you count 16th notes?
3. What do you call a long series of patterns in drumming?
4.What is the symbol to repeat several bars?

Homework #18
Answer the following questions about the drumming in the movie "Drumline":
1. What did the drummers have to stabilize the drums when they marched?
2. What is the usual formation of the drum corps?
3. What was the point of the new drummers playing in the rain in the beginning of the movie?
4. Name 3 tricky moves that the drummers did in the final drum-off?

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Homework 2014-2015 C1 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions about drum rudiments:
1. Who invented drum rudiments?
2. What are the 5 kinds of rudiments?
3. How can you make them sound smooth?
4. How do you play a flam?

Homework #14
Answer the following about reading drum music:
1. What does the drum clef look like?
2. What do the two numbers of the time signature stand for?
3. What are the 3 visual components of an eighth note?
4. What is the purpose of rests?

Homework #15
Answer the following questions about the Country Blues lesson:
1. What does Amiri Baraka say in his quote?
2. What were some of the problems sharecroppers in the South have?
3. What did these problems have to do with the blues?
4. How do these songs relate to current day music?

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Homework 2014-2015 C1 #10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following questions about the guitar review:
1. What happens to all the other strings when you tune one string higher?
2. What do the guitar parts of I Got a Feeling and Use Somebody have in common?
3. Name 3 main differences between electric and acoustic guitars.
4. In TAB which guitar string does the bottom line represent?

Homework #11
Answer the following questions about the Drumline movie:
1. Do you think the movie was an accurate representation of college life?
2. Do you think the hazing of the freshmen was excessive?
3. What is unique about Devon's situation at the college?
4. How does the love interest play into the plot?

Homework #12
Answer the following questions about the history of rock:
1. Where did rock and roll come from?
2. What are Chuck Berry's contributions to the genre?
3. How old will Chuck Berry be on this October 18th?
4. What surprising thing did Chuck Berry do when he was 17?

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Homework 2014-2015 C1 #7-9

Homework #7
Answer the following questions about the Thematic Lesson: Love Songs:
1. Why was the Flamingos lead singer crying?
2. What did the Flamingos song and Led Zeppelin song have in common?
3. How did Dion feel about singing love songs for his friends?
4. How did Leslie Gore switch up the love song?

Homework #8
Answer the following questions about the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling":
1. What kind of tuning does this song use?
2. What fret does the guitar part start on?
3. What happens after you play the part on the 8th fret?
4. What's the hardest thing about this guitar part?

Homework #9
Answer the following questions about the guitar parts to "Lose Yourself" and "All of Me"?
1. What kind of chord do you use for Lose Yourself?
2. What technique do you use to make the part sound full?
3. What do the guitar parts to both of these songs have in common?
4. What other skill did you learn in order to play All of Me?

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