Homework 2012-2013 C2 HW# 4-6

Homework #4
Answer the following questions:
1. When you create a new track in Garageband what is the first thing you must do?
2. In Garageband where are the transport controls located?
3. What's that clicking sound I hear when I'm trying to record?
4. After you've created a track how can you change the tempo?

Homework #5
Answer the following questions:
1. How do you get the loop cursor for a single track?
2. What does the solo icon look like?
3. What do you have to do to play the keyboard with your computer keys?
4. How do you save your track in iTunes?

Homework #6
Answer the following questions:
1. How can you put loops in your favorites folder?
2. Where is the zoom control located?
3. How can you add a vocal track in Garageband?
4. What is feedback in Garageband?

Due Friday Dec 21 or Friday January 4, 2013 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C2 #1-3

Homework #1
Answer the following questions:
1. What are some reasons why Pythagoras is important to the study of music?
2. What were the most important ratios that Pythagoras discovered?
3. What is a power chord?
4. Why is the power chord called "power"?

Homework #2
Answer the following questions:
1. If a piano has keys, what does a guitar have?
2. What are some ways that piano and guitar are similar?
3. What some advantages to playing a piano over playing a guitar?
4. What some advantages to playing a guitar over playing a piano?

Homework #3
Answer the following questions:
1. How do you quickly know what the notes are on the piano?
2. How do you quickly know what the notes are on the guitar?
3. What do you need to do to be able to play an instrument without looking at it?
4. What do you have to do to be able to read music?

Due Friday Dec. 14, 2012 or Friday Dec 21 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

2012-2013 C1 HW 19-27

Homework 2012-2013 C1HW#27

Using all the notes in your outline write a first draft of your research paper. Do not worry about making it five pages. It can be as long or short as it needs to be, as long as it contains all of the elements that you have provided in your outline. In class on Monday I would like you to print out a copy of your outline and your first draft of the research paper.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#26

For each of the three ideas that you've written in homework # 10 find three supporting statements or sources and organize them in terms of week, strong and strongest. Then put them in your outline.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#25

For tonight's homework you are to rewrite the body of your outline. I would like you to organize the A, B and C points in the following order; weak, strong and strongest. You may not need to rewrite everything because you can cut-and-paste or you can fold homework number 9 into this assignment. Tomorrow in computer lab we will expand upon this idea.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#24

Organize your 12 arguments like this.

1. Weakest argument

A. Weakest supporting argument

B. Stronger supporting argument

C. Strongest supporting argument

2. Stronger argument

A. Weakest supporting argument

B. Stronger supporting argument

C. Strongest supporting argument

3. Strongest argument

A. Weakest supporting argument

B. Stronger supporting argument

C. Strongest supporting argument

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#23

Find three arguments or statements that support your thesis statement in your paper. Rate your arguments in order of strength. Find three arguments that support each of these arguments and rate them in order of strength. You should have a total of 12 arguments.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#22

Write a one page introduction to your paper. 

Start by answering the question - Why did you choose this topic?

Then - What did you know about the topic before you started the research?

Then - What did you find out that you didn't know when you started?

And finally - What kind of paper are you going to write: Compare and contrast, analysis of problem, factual report or review?

Then put your thesis statement.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#21

Write a tentative outline for your research paper.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#20

Find 5 more sources for information you might use in your research paper.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#19

After reading the material you selected in HW#2 and you research paper notes, write your thesis statement. Your thesis statement can be in the form of a question or what you believe is the answer to that question. You do not need to have proof yet.

Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW #16-18

Homework #16
Answer the following question:
What are 3 reasons why music should be written down?

Homework #17
Answer the following questions about music notation:
1. What is a time signature?
2. What is tempo?
3. What is the point of bar lines?
4. How do you indicate a loop?

Homework #18

Answer the following questions about music notation:

1. What does a whole note look like?

2. What are the most common note values?

3. What does a dot after a note mean?

4. How do you indicate that a note carries over into the next bar?

Due Friday October 26 of Friday November 2 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com) 

Homework 2012-2013 C1 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following question:
What are 3 ways to find your way around the guitar without looking at the fingerboard?

Homework #14
Answer the following question:
What are 3 ways that playing the guitar is like playing the piano?

Homework #15

Answer the following question:

What are 3 ways that playing the guitar is different from playing the piano?

Due Friday October 19, 2012 or Friday October 26 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 HW#10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following question:
What are the 7 most important rules for piano fingering?

Homework #11

Answer the following question:

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

Homework #12

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 C1 #7-9

Homework #7

1. Where is the C key located on the piano?
2. How should your arms be when playing the piano?
3. How should your fingers be when playing the piano?
4. What fingers do you use to play a root position chord?

Homework #8

1. How are the fingers numbered when playing the piano?
2. What does tempo mean?
3. What is a chord progression?
4. Name some techniques for getting around on the piano without looking at the keys.

Homework #9
1. What is it called when music is written down?
2. What are the names of the white notes on the piano keyboard?
3. What does it mean when notes are stacked on top of each other?
4. What is the phrase to help remember the lines on the treble staff?
5. What do the spaces on the treble staff spell?
6. How should your fingers be positioned when you play Ode to Joy in GB piano lesson 2?

Due Friday Oct 5, 2011 or Friday Oct 12, 2011 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

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)

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)

Homework 2011-2012 C6 #10-12

Homework #10

1. Who invented the 12 tone scale?
2. What discovery led him to invent it?
3. What does this discovery have to do with the guitar?
4. What note do you get when you shorten a string by half?

Homework #11

1. How can you play all the different notes on the guitar?
2. How should the wrist of you fretting hand be positioned?
3. What are some things you need to be careful of in order to cleanly fret a note?
4. What is the order of the things you need to do to tune a guitar?

Homework #12

1. What is the numbering system for the strings on the guitar?
2. What strings and frets do you use to make an E power chord?
3. How is an A power chord similar to an E power chord?
4. What is double picking?

Due Friday June 8 or Tuesday June 12 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C6 #7-9

Homework #7

1. Why is the traditional grip for drummers not symmetrical?
2. What information can you get from the two numbers that comprise a time signature?
3. How do you count 16th notes in 4/4 time?
4. What does bpm mean?

Homework #8

1. What are the main parts of an ordinary drum set?
2. What kinds of cymbals do you usually find?
3. What is the most common function of the snare drum?
4. What is a common ride pattern on the cymbals?

Homework #9

1. Who invented the bass drum pedal?
2. What drummer first made the drum set popular and who did he play with?
3. What is the name of the exercises most drummers practice?
4. Name the three drummers who recorded the most hits in the history of rock and roll.

Due Friday June 1 or Friday June 8 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C6 #4-6

Homework #4

1. What are the two chords that the A section of Fur Elise are based around?
2. What is the difference between the first and second endings to the A section?
3. What is odd about the time signature of Fur Elise?
4. What beat does the Fur Elise start on?

Homework #5

1. How is the left hand part of Fur Elise different from the left hand part of all the other songs we have learned this cycle?
2. What are the 9 notes of the left hand in Section A of Fur Elise?
3. Describe how your fingers move when playing the left hand in the A Section of Fur Elise.
4. What are the chords the B Section of Fur Elise based upon?

Homework #6

1. Of the songs we have learned so far what is the most challenging for you?
2. How might you change the song to make it easier?
3. What are some things you can do to make playing a song easier?
4. What song would like to learn that hasn't be mentioned in the class yet?

Due Friday May 25, 2012 or Friday June 1 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C6 #1-3

Answer the following questions:

Homework #1

1. What is the numbering system for the fingers when playing piano?
2. When playing from left to right where do the notes on the piano go from G back to A?
3. What notes are used when playing "Ode to Joy"?
4. Why do you need to curve some fingers when playing the piano?

Homework #2

1. What is the "Hanon"?
2. What is an example of expansion in piano fingering?
3. What should you do if you get a cramp when playing piano?
4. What can you do to prevent getting cramps when you play?

Homework #3

1. What technique do you need to use to play a 7 note scale?
2. What finger should you avoid using when playing black keys?
3. What is a root position chord?
4. What is a 7th chord?

Due Friday May 18 or May 25 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #10

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between a major and a minor chord?
2. What is the relative minor of a C major chord?
3. How can you find the relative minor or major of any chord?
4. What is a chord substitution?
5. What is the difference between a blue track in Garageband and a green one?

Homework due Friday April 27th, 2012

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #9

Answer the following questions:

1. How did Leonard find Etta James?

2. What did he do for her when he found out about her father?

3. What trouble did Chuck Berry get into after he was a star?

4. Who helped Muddy Waters get the recognition he deserved?

5. What happened to Little Walter?

6. What happened to Leonard Chess?

7. What did Leonard do for Etta James before he died?

8. Name three songs that you heard in the movie that are 12 bar blues?

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #8

Answer the following questions:

1. What was Little Walter's main instrument?

2. What did Muddy Waters think of Howling Wolf?

3. What was Little Walter's problem?

4. Why did Chuck Berry come to Chicago?

5. What happened when Chuck Berry's music was played on the radio?

6. Why was his music important for American culture?

7. What was happening to the other artists on Chess Records at the time?

8. What was happening in America in general at this time?

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #7

Homework #7

1. Who are the two men who start the movie Cadillac Records?

2. Why do some people in Chicago not like Muddy Waters' music at first?

3. What changed that helped him become popular?

4. What was Leonard Chess' original idea about how he was going to make money?

5. What was his main motivation then?

6. How did Leonard come to start his record label?

7. What was his first hit record?

8. What instruments did the musicians use mostly?

9. What happened to Leonard Chess' nightclub?

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #4-6

Homework #4

1. What is the Strophic form?
2. What are some other common song structures?
3. Why is the introduction to a song not considered essential?
4. What is the song structure called if it has no repeating sections?

Homework #5

1. What is number of bars for each chord in the 12 bar blues?
2. How many half steps are there between the 1 chord and the 4 chord?
3. Why is the five chord 7 half steps up but only 5 half steps down?
4. What is the most common lyric pattern for the 12 bar blues?

Homework #6

1. What are the differences in the two definitions of the song element "bridge"?
2. What is the "middle eight"?
3. What is a "collision" as a song structural element?
4. What is a "coda"?

Due Thursday April 5 or Friday April 20 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C5 #1-3

Answer the following questions:

Homework #1
1. When you create a new track in Garageband what is the first thing you must do?
2. In Garageband where are the transport controls located?
3. What's that clicking sound I hear when I'm trying to record?
4. After you've created a track how can you change the tempo?

Homework #2
1. How do you get the loop cursor for a single track?
2. What does the solo icon look like?
3. What do you have to do to play the keyboard with your computer keys?
4. How do you save your track in iTunes?

Homework #3
1. How can you put loops in your favorites folder?
2. Where is the zoom control located?
3. How can you add a vocal track in Garageband?
4. What is feedback in Garageband?

Due Friday March 30 or Friday April 6 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C4 #13-15

Homework #13

1. When playing power chords how do you get the other strings not to play?
2. What strings do you use to play a low E power chord?
3. What must your fingers do to play an A power chord?
4. Why is an electric guitar preferable when playing power chords?

Homework #14

1. Where do you have to put your finger to play an F on the low E string?
2. What fret do you use to play a C on the low E string?
3. What is the "blues box" on the guitar?
4. What is double picking on the guitar?

Homework #15

1. What is cross picking?
2. What is finger picking?
3. What kinds of music usually use finger picking?
4. What is an open chord on the guitar?

Due Friday March 16, 2012 or Tuesday March 20 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C4 #10-12

Homework #10

1. What is it called when you move your fingers to different places on the piano to play scales?
2. What is the fingering of the right hand in the C major scale?
3. How many sharps are there in the G major scale?
4. Which notes are sharp in the D major scale?

Homework #11

1. What are the advanced fingering techniques needed to play Bach's "Minuet in G"?
2. What do the numbers mean when referring to chords?
3. What are the chords used in the 12 bar blues?
4. How many bars of each chord are in the 12 bar blues?

Homework #12

1. How do you find the flatted seventh or dominant seventh in any chord?
2. What chord voicing do you use to play the blues in the Garageband piano lesson #9?
3. What are the intervals that make up the pentatonic scale?
4. What other note is good to use when soloing in the 12 bar blues progression?

Due Friday March 9, 2012 or Friday March 16 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C4 #7-9

Homework #7

1. How many different notes are in one octave?
2. What are sharps and flats?
3. What is a whole step?
4. What is the pattern of whole and half steps in a major diatonic scale?

Homework #8

1. What is an arpeggio?
2. What direction does the arpeggio go in Alicia Key's song "Ain't Got You"?
3. How do you know what key a song is in when reading music?
4. What key is "Ain't Got You" in?

Homework #9

1. What does it mean when there is a dot after the note?
2. What does it mean when two notes are tied together?
3. What does it mean when a note is accented?
4. How is it written when a note is supposed to be accented?

Due Friday, March 2 or Friday March 9 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C4 #4-6

Homework #4

1. What are the names of two kinds of grips for drumsticks?
2. What are three kinds of rolls you can play on the drums?
3. How do you count eighth notes?
4. How do you count sixteenths?

Homework #5

1. If you are having trouble fretting a note on the guitar, what are some things you can do to make it sound clearer?
2. How many notes make up a power chord?
3. What are the letter names of the strings in standard guitar tuning?
4. What is palm muting?

Homework #6

1. What does a quarter note look like and how many beats does it get?
2. What do you call the notation that indicates a space where no note is being played?
3. What does a half note rest look like?
4. What do sharps look like? What do flats look like?

Due Friday Feb 18, 2012 or Friday March 2 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C4 #1-3

Homework #1

1. What are the 6 main parts of the guitar?
2. In the string numbering system of the guitar, what number is the thickest string?
3. What frets usually have markers on the guitar?
4. What are the main differences between and electric and acoustic guitar?

Homework #2
1. When tuning a guitar by ear, what is the order of operations?
2. Name one song that uses open D tuning?
3. What is a capo?
4. Where is G on the piano keyboard?

Homework #3

1. What is it called when music is written down?
2. In the treble staff what are the two mnemonics to remember the spaces and the lines?
3. What is it called when notes are stacked vertically in music notation?
4. Before you can read piano music what is one skill you have to master?

Due Friday Feb 10, 2012 or Friday Feb 17 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2011-2012 C3 #13-15

Review - Answer the following questions:

Homework #13

1. What are the chords in the song, "Mission Impossible"?
2. What are the notes in the first chord?
3. What are the notes in the second chord?
4. What are the notes in the last chord?

Homework #14

1. What is the most popular recording in 5/4 time?
2. What were the instruments used in that recording?
3. What were the order of solos in that song?
4. What Radiohead song is in 5/4 time?

Homework #15

1. What are some of the instruments used in the original recording of Mission Impossible?
2. What years were new episodes of Mission Impossible broadcast on TV?
3. What year was "Take Five" a hit?
4. Has Lalo Schifrin ever acknowledged his debt to Dave Brubeck?

Due Friday Jan 20, 2012

Homework 2011-2012 C3 #10-12

Answer the following questions about the music to Mission Impossible.

Homework #10

1. What time signature is the original Mission Impossible Theme in?
2. How do you count the rhythm of the main riff?
3. How do you count the rhythm of the melody?
4. How many eighth notes are there in a bar of 5/4?

Homework #11

1. What key signature is the original Mission Impossible Theme in?
2. What are the notes in the main rhythm riff?
3. What are the notes of the first part of the melody?
4. What are the notes of the second part of the melody?

Homework #12

1. Who wrote the original Mission Impossible Theme?
2. What are some other scores this person wrote?
3. What nationality was the author?
4. What is the chord structure of the Mission Impossible Theme?

Due Friday Jan 6, 2012 or Friday Jan 13 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)