Homework 2012-2013 C3 #7-9

Answer the following questions:

Homework #7
1. What was the original title of Fur Elise?
2. What notes are in an A minor chord?
3. Who is the "Elise" in "Fur Elise" rumored to be?

4. What is the 5th (so) of the key of A minor?

Homework #8
1. What are the two chords the A section of Fur Elise is based around?

2. What are the first 6 notes of the left hand part of Fur Elise?
3. What does the left hand do during the second chord?
4. What is one difference in the two endings of the A section?

Homework #9
1. What key does the B section of Fur Elise briefly go to?
2. What piano technique is used to play the first four notes of the B section?
3. How is the left hand part in the B section similar to the left hand in the A section?

4. How many sections are there in Fur Elise and how can they be described?

Due Friday April 19 or Friday April 26 by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #4-6

Homework #4
Answer the following question:
What are the 7 most important rules for piano fingering?

Homework #5

Answer the following question:

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

Homework #6

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 C3 #1-3

Homework #1

Answer the following questions:
1. What connects the strings to the body of a guitar?
2. What is the number of the thickest string?
3. What is the main difference between an electric and acoustic guitar?
4. If you are right handed, what hand do you fret the guitar with?

Homework #2

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the first thing you must do to tune a guitar?
2. What can you use to help you tune the guitar?
3. What is each string tuned to in open D tuning?
4. What is one song that uses open D tuning?

Homework #3
Answer the following questions:
1. What is each string tuned to in standard tuning on the guitar?
2. What is it called when you lightly touch and play a string?
3. What is another way to play the guitar besides fretting it?
4. What is a power chord?

Due Friday April 12 or Friday April 19 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C2 #16-18

Homework #16
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the destination of your song?
2. Is this a real place or an imaginary place?
3. Can you search the web to find a rhyme?
4. Why are the number of syllables in each line important?

Homework #17
Answer the following questions?
1. Why should you use earphones when recording a vocal in garageband?
2. If there is too much noise on your vocal track what can you do?
3. How can you get the t-pain effect on your vocal?
4. What are some ways to change the sound of your vocal?

Homework #18
Answer the following questions:
1. What does a audio compressor do?
2. What are the controls of a noise gate?
3. What is the purpose of an equalizer?
4. What are some ways to change the rhythm of your vocal in Garageband?

Due Friday, February  15, 2013 or Friday February 22, if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C2 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions:

1. What is "destination writing"?
2. When writing lyrics, what words should be the most emotionally charged?
3. What are the two types of detail you should balance in destination writing?
4. How can the rhythm scheme affect the rhyme scheme?

Homework #14

Answer the following questions:

1. In a hit song lyric, what does the verse do and what does the chorus do?
2. What is the effect of singing the title with long notes?
3. What kind of sections can we use in the verse/chorus structure for connective tissue?
4. What are some ways that the bridge lyric can contrast with the verses?

Homework #15

Answer the following questions:

1. What are the 4 primary chords that hit songwriters use?
2. How do songwriters add interest to these chords?
3. What notes are in the mixolydian mode?
4. What note is different from the major mode?

Due by Friday February 8, 2013

Homework 2012-2013 C2 #10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following questions:

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

Answer the following questions:

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 #12

Answer the following questions

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 Friday January 18, 2013 or Friday February 1, 2013 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C2 HW# 7-9

Homework # 7
Answer the following questions:

1. What are the frets on a guitar?
2. What is the difference between a low note and a high note?
3. What are harmonics?
4. How do guitar makers know where to put the frets on a guitar?

Homework #8
Answer the following questions:

1. If you put a capo on the 7th fret of a guitar that is open D tuning what is the new key?
2. To play a lower note on the same string which direction does your hand need to move?
3. To tune a guitar what is the first thing you must do?
4. What are the notes of each string in open D tuning?

Homework #9
Answer the following questions:

1. What are some of the reasons for putting a bridge in a song?
2. What are some differences between a verse and a chorus?
3. How much can you take from another song without being sued?
4. What are some of the ways you can raise the emotional level of a song?

Due Friday January 11, 2013 or Friday January 18, 2013 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)