Homework 2013-2014 C2 #19-21

Homework #19
Answer the following questions about Garageband:
1. How can you record using the keyboard shortcut?
2. When you punch in on a track how can you hear a bit of it before you start recording?
3. When you start recording how do you know where you are recording?
4. What is the only time that the recording shortcut doesn't work?

Homework #20
Answer the following questions about songwriting:
1. What is an advantage to putting your lyrics into regular stanzas?
2. If a lyric doesn't rhyme, what options do you have?
3. If a lyric doesn't fit into the pattern you've set up, what can you do?
4. How long are most pop songs?

Homework #21
Answer the following questions about your final project:
1. How did your idea of what you were going to write and what you actually wrote change over the course of the cycle?
2. How satisfied are you with your final result?
3. If you had to write another song, what would you write about?
4. What other types of writing could you use destination writing for?

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Homework 2013-2014 C2 #16-18

Homework #16

Answer the following questions about putting your words to music:

1. What is the first thing you need to figure out when putting music to words?

2. How can you keep your focus when working on the music for the words?

3. What garageband tool will help you develop a section?

4. How can you give your song a consistent feeling throughout?

Homework #17

Answer the following questions about arranging your song:

1. What are some strategies for introductions?

2. What are some factors that will help you decide if you need a middle 8?

3. What are some things to make your chorus stand out?

4. What are some strategies for endings?

Homework #18

Answer the following questions about problems playing a part:

1. If a song is too fast what are some things you can do to make it easier?

2. If a song is too high what are some things you can do to make it easier?

3. How can you make a dull vocal sound better?

4. If your voice sounds like a cat in heat what can you do?

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Homework 2013-2014 C2 #10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following questions about destination writing:
1. What is the purpose of destination writing?
2. How do you begin destination writing?
3. What do you use as springboards for creativity?
4. How do you build a connection to your audience?

Homework #11
Answer the following questions about destination writing:
1. What are the two types of detail you need to include?
2. How do you maintain a balance between them?
3. How are the words going to work with the music?
4. What kind of lyric would go with a melody that doesn't change?

Homework #12
Answer the following questions about the 10-step writing process:
1. How do you keep your song from being boring?
2. How can you keep an unique voice while repeating your patterns?
3. At what point in the 10-step writing process do you figure out the plot?
4. How soon should you figure your rhyme scheme?

Due Friday Feb 7 or Friday Feb14 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

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)