Homework 2014-2015 C1 #1-3

Homework #1
Answer the following question about music:
1. Who was said to be responsible for the western musical scale as we know it?
2. How many notes are in this scale?
3. What is the most common mathematical ratio between the notes on this scale?
4. What are some of the other ratios in the scale?

Homework #2
Answer the following questions about the piano:
1. What are the alphabetical names of the white notes?
2. When you play them what do you call a series of chords?
3. What are the bass notes to "Heart and Soul"?
4. How do you know where you are on the piano?

Homework #3
Answer the following questions about "Johnny B Goode":
1. How does the song start?
2. What is the story line of the lyrics?
3. What set Chuck Berry apart from all the other early rock and roll singers?
4. What was happening in the USA around the time that the song was a hit?

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Homework 2013-2014 C3 #19-21

Homework #19
Answer the following questions about "I Can" by Nas:
1. What famous classical song is used as the melody?
2. What is different about this version from the classical piece?
3. How are the chords different from the original?
4. What drum beat does it copy from?

Homework #20
Answer the following questions about "All of Me" by John Legend:
1. What does this song have in common with "Ordinary People"?
2. What is one thing that gives the opening chords their power?
3. What are the two notes that the opening chord consists of?
4. What are the only white notes used in this song?

Homework #21
Answer the following questions about the songs we played last week:
1. How was the "Spanish" version of "All of Me" different?
2. What were the 2 chord shapes that we used in the "Spanish" version of "All of Me"?
3. What was the name of the special technique that the drum part used?
4. How was that drum sound achieved?

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Homework 2013-2014 C3 HW#16-18

Homework #16
Answer the following questions about drum history:
1. Who invented the drum rudiments?
2. What was their purpose?
3. Why are the two hands different in traditional grip?
4. Who invented the bass drum pedal?

Homework #17
Answer the following questions about drum rudiments:
1. How many rudiments were there originally?
2. What is a flam?
3. What is a drag?
4. What is the sticking for a paradiddle?

Homework #18
Answer the following questions about the drum set:
1. What does the dominant hand do in a basic rock beat?
2. What do they call a beat with a swing to it?
3. What beats does the snare drum usually play on?
4. What beat does the bass drum usually play?

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Homework 2013-2014 C3 HW#13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions about the guitar:
1. What are some things to make it easier to fret the guitar?
2. What are downstrokes?
3. What is double picking?
4. What do an A minor chord and an E major chord have in common?

Homework #14
Answer the following questions about power chords:
1. What well known rap song uses power chords?
2. What is the shape of a power chord?
3. Why do they call it a power chord?
4. What is palm muting?

Homework #15
Answer the following questions about TAB notation:
1. How many lines are used for TAB?
2. How do you know what notes the strings are tuned to?
3. Which string is which in TAB?
4. What is one thing not noted in TAB?

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Homework 2013-2014 C3 HW# 10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following questions about the guitar:
1. What are the names of the two things that attach the strings to the guitar?
2. What are the metal things on the fingerboard?
3. What are their purpose?
4. What are the numbers of the strings?

Homework #11
Answer the following questions about guitar tuning?
1. What are the notes in open D tuning?
2. What are the notes in standard tuning?
3. What does a capo do?
4. What key is the guitar in if it is open D and the capo is on the 7th fret?

Homework #12
Answer the following questions about the songs we played last week:
1. What key is "Bubbly" in?
2. What was the main difference between the simple version and the advanced?
3. What key is "I Got A Feeling" in?
4. What 2 frets is the entire guitar part played on?

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Homework 2013-2014 C3 HW #7-9

Last week we reviewed all the piano lessons we have had so far this cycle. Here are some questions about that review.

Homework #7
Answer the following questions about piano exercises:
1. What is the Hanon?
2. What is the purpose of the Hanon?
3. What black key do you use for the scale in the key of G?
4. What finger on the right hand do you use to play it?

Homework #8
Answer the following questions about the piano keyboard:
1. Why are the black keys sometimes sharp and sometimes flat?
2. When you look at music, how do you know what key a song is in?
3. What fingering do you use for a root position chord?
4. What fingering would you use for a root position 7th chord?

Homework #9
Answer the following questions about John Legend's "Ordinary People":
1. What key is Ordinary People in for the Garageband lesson?
2. How is it different from the "Get Lifted" version?
3. What kind of 7th chord does he use?
4. What does this song have in common with Für Elise?

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Homework 2013-2014 C3 HW #4-6

Homework #4
Answer the following questions about the piano:
1. When do you have to use finger crossing in the C major scale?
2. Why is this fingering useful?
3. What is a 7th chord?
4. How may different kinds of 7th chords are there?

Homework #5
Answer the following questions about Heart and Soul:
1. Who wrote Heart and Soul?
2. What year was it first a hit?
3. What was happening in America at the time?
4. What key is Heart and Soul in?

Homework #6
Answer the following questions about Für Elise:
1. What was the original title of Für Elise?
2. Who was the Elise?
3. What are the two chords the A section based around?
4. What note does the song start on?

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