Homework 2013-2014 C1 #28-30

Homework #28
Answer the following questions about the movie, Cadillac Records.
1. Who were the two important people who were left out of the movie?
2. Who was Willie Dixon?
3. Did most of the artists stay on Chess after it was sold?
4. What was Chuck Berry's biggest hit?

Homework #29
Answer the following questions about Bo Diddley.
1. What is the Bo Diddley beat?
2. What were some of Bo Diddley's hits?
3. Who was Jerome?
4. What was unusual about all his bands?

Homework #30
Answer the following questions about Heart and Soul.
1. Who wrote Heart and Soul?
2. When was it first a hit?
3. What are the chords?
4. What kind of music was popular at the time?

Due Friday November 22 or Wednesday Dec 4th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #25-27

Homework #25

1. What is the movie Cadillac Records about?

2. Why did Muddy Waters' music not go over so well in Chicago 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. How did Leonard come to start his record label?

6. What was his first hit record?

7. What happened to Leonard Chess' nightclub?

Homework #26

Answer the following questions:

1. What was Little Walter's main instrument?

2. What did Muddy Waters think of Howling Wolf?

3. Why did Chuck Berry come to Chicago?

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

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

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

Homework #27

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 are in the movie?

Due Friday November 15 or November 22 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #22-24

Homework #22
Answer the following questions about the music to the movie Halloween:
1. Who is Michael Myers?
2. What is the time signature of his theme music?
3. Why does that make it seem unsettling?
4. What is another song in the original movie?

Homework #23
Answer the following questions about Fur Elise:
1. What was the original title of Fur Elise?
2. What is the key signature?
3. What are the only two chords the A section?
4. What are the first three notes of the left hand?

Homework #24
Answer the following questions about Fur Elise:
1. What is the first note (played with the right hand)?
2. What finger do most piano players use to play it?
3. Who was the Elise that Beethoven dedicated it to?
4. When was the song first published?

Due Friday November 8th or Friday November 15th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #19-21

Homework #19
Answer the following questions from the movie "Drumline":
1. What does the drum clef look like in drum notation?
2. What is the sticking for the "don't look down" exercise from "Drumline"?
3. What is the secret to playing it fast?
4. How do they each end the exercise?

Homework #20
Answer the following questions about the drum set:
1. What does the dominant hand do in the basic rock beat?
2. What does the other hand do?
3. What does the bass drum do?
4. When do you usually change it up?


Homework #21
Answer the following questions about drum circles:
1. What is a drum circle?
2. What instruments are usually found in drum circles?
3. What it the object of a drum circle?
4. What are the different ways you can play a cabasa?

Due Friday November 1st or Friday November 8th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #16-18

Homework #16
Answer the following questions:
1. Where did bachata music come from?
2. Who are some of the stars of bachata music?
3. What special device do most bachata guitar players use?
4. What are some of the other instruments heard in bachata?

Homework #17
Answer the following questions:
1. Who are some of the pioneers in electric guitar?
2. What is palm muting on the guitar?
3. Why is tuning such an issue with playing the guitar?
4. What was Jimi Hendrix most known for?


Homework #18
Answer the following questions:
1. What is double picking?
2. How do you play melodies when you double pick?
3. What genres of music would you find double-picking?
4. How do you hold the pick when you are double picking?

Due Friday October 25th or November 1st if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions:
1. What are some things you need to be able to do to read music?
2. What direction do you read music from?
3. What does it mean when there is a treble clef on the staff in traditional notation?
4. What does the foot pedal do on the piano?

Homework #14
Answer the following questions:
1. What rule of piano fingering do you have to break to play the intro arpeggio of Alicia Keys "If I Ain't Got You"?
2. How do you know what the key of a song is?
3. What key is "If I Ain't Got You" in?
4. What does the top number in the time signature stand for?

Homework #15
Answer the following questions:
1. Why does the opening notes of "Bella's Lullaby" (from the "Twilight" Movie) sound strange?
2. What is the key signature of the beginning of "Bella's Lullaby"?
3. What is difficult about the left hand part of "Bella's Lullaby"?
4. If you set you mind to do something there is nothing you can't do. What piece of music would you most like to be able to play?

Due Friday, October 18 or Friday, Oct 25 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #10-12

Homework #10

Answer the following questions:
1. What are drum rudiments?
2. Who invented them?
3. What was their original purpose?
4. What are the two most common ways to hold a drumstick?

Homework #11

Answer the following questions:
1. In musical notation what is the name of a note that gets 4 beats?
2. What does a half note look like?
3. What are the parts of a sixteenth note in traditional notation?
4. How do write 4 sixteenth notes in a row?

Homework #12
Answer the following questions:
1. How do you play a closed roll on drums?
2. What is a paradiddle?
3. What does the dominant hand do for most beats on the drum set?
4. What rhythm does the snare drum play in most pop music?

Due Friday October 11th or Friday October18th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)