Monday, October 3, 2011

Homework 2011-2012 C1 #10-12

Answer the following questions:

Homework #10

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 is a plectrum?
5. What are some uses for the thumb when playing guitar?

Homework #11

1. How does the sound come out of an acoustic guitar?
2. What anchors the strings to the body of any guitar?
3. What are the metal strips set into the fingerboard of a guitar called?
4. How do tuning pegs work?
5. What are the main differences between and electric and acoustic guitar?

Homework #12

1. On the guitar, if the fingering for a G chord is:
6th string - 3rd fret,
5th string - 2nd fret,
1st string - 3rd fret
and the rest open, what is the fingering for a C chord?
2. On the guitar, what is the fingering for an E chord?
3. On the guitar, what is the fingering for an A chord?
4. On the guitar, what is the fingering for a D chord?
5. Which chords do you need to play the blues in GarageBand guitar lesson 3?
6. What kind of rhythm do you use for the blues in GB guitar lesson 3?

Due Friday Oct 7, 2011 or Friday October 14th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Monday, September 26, 2011

Homework 2011-2012 C1 #7-9

Answer the following questions:

Homework #7

1. Where is middle C located on the staff?
2. In piano music. what is it called when the bass staff and the treble staff are connected together?
3. What notes make up an A minor chord?
4. What chords are used in Garageband piano lesson #3?

Homework #8

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 the top and bottom numbers in a time signature mean?

Homework #9

1. What do sharps look like? What do flats look like?
2. How do you know if a black key is a sharp or a flat?
3. How many half steps are in a whole step?
4. What is the pattern of whole steps and half steps in the major scale?

Due Monday Oct 3, 2011 or Friday Oct 7, 2011 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Monday, September 19, 2011

Homework 2011-2012 C1 #4-6

Answer the following questions:

Homework #4

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 #5

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 #6
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 Sept 23, 2011 or Monday Oct 3, 2011 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Monday, September 12, 2011

Homework 2011-2012 C1 #1-3

Homework #1

Answer the following questions:

1. What was Pythagoras' contribution to music?
2. What was the problem with it?
3. How might he have made these discoveries?

Homework #2

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the strongest overtone in the harmonic series?
2. What is the emotional impact of that overtone?
3. How many notes are in the western diatonic scale?

Homework #3

Answer the following questions:

1. What would you call a scale with just one note in it?
2. Name two other popular scales?
3. What are notes not in the scale called?

Due Monday, September 19, 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

Homework 2010-2011 C5 #12

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 Thursday I would like you to print out a copy of your outline and your first draft of the research paper.

Homework 2010-2011 C5 #11

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 2010-2011 C5 #10

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.