Homework 2013-2014 C2 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions about song forms:
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 #14
Answer the following questions about the 12 bar blues:
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 #15
Answer the following questions about song forms:
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 Feb 28 (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C2 #7-9

Homework #7
Answer the following questions about Apple's Garageband:
1. How do you put loops into your favorites folder?
2. Why can't you drag a blue loop into a green track?
3. How do you erase something in Garageband?
4. How can you erase an entire track in Garageband?

Homework #8
Answer the following questions about Apple's Garageband:
1. How can you fix the timing in your track?
2. How can you hear yourself if you're recording a vocal?
3. How do you get the t-pain effect on your vocal?
4. Why is the key of your track important?


Homework #9
Answer the following questions about Apple's Garageband:
1. How can you play and rewind your track in Garageband without using the transport controls?
2. What does the cycle button look like?
3. What can you do with the Master Track?
4. What is the Arrangement Track for?

Due Friday Jan 24 or Friday Feb 7 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C2 #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 17 or Friday January 24, 2014 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C2 #1-3

Homework #1

Answer the following questions about the song, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
1. What ballet is this song a part of?
2. Who wrote the music?
3. When was he born?
4. What is the key signature of the song?

Homework #2
Answer the following questions about the movie Ray.
1. Where was Ray Robinson born?
2. How did he lose his eyesight?
3. What was the most important thing to his mother after that?
4. Where did he go to get his start as a professional musician?

Homework #3
Answer the following questions about  the movie Ray.
1. What was his record label when he had his first hit record?
2. What happened to get him banned from playing in the state Georgia?
3. Why did he fire his first manager?
4. How did he finally get off hard drugs?

Due Friday January 3rd, 2014 or Friday, January 10th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

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)