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)
Monday, February 11, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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
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
Monday, January 14, 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?
3. How do you know what key a song is in when reading music?
4. What key is "Ain't Got You" in?
3. What is a "collision" as a song structural element?
4. What is a "coda"?
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)
Monday, January 7, 2013
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)
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)
Monday, December 17, 2012
Homework 2012-2013 C2 HW# 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 21 or Friday January 4, 2013 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)
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 21 or Friday January 4, 2013 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)
Monday, December 10, 2012
Homework 2012-2013 C2 #1-3
Homework #1
Answer the following questions:
1. What are some reasons why Pythagoras is important to the study of music?
2. What were the most important ratios that Pythagoras discovered?
3. What is a power chord?
4. Why is the power chord called "power"?
Homework #2
Answer the following questions:
1. If a piano has keys, what does a guitar have?
2. What are some ways that piano and guitar are similar?
3. What some advantages to playing a piano over playing a guitar?
4. What some advantages to playing a guitar over playing a piano?
Homework #3
Answer the following questions:
1. How do you quickly know what the notes are on the piano?
2. How do you quickly know what the notes are on the guitar?
3. What do you need to do to be able to play an instrument without looking at it?
4. What do you have to do to be able to read music?
Due Friday Dec. 14, 2012 or Friday Dec 21 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)
Answer the following questions:
1. What are some reasons why Pythagoras is important to the study of music?
2. What were the most important ratios that Pythagoras discovered?
3. What is a power chord?
4. Why is the power chord called "power"?
Homework #2
Answer the following questions:
1. If a piano has keys, what does a guitar have?
2. What are some ways that piano and guitar are similar?
3. What some advantages to playing a piano over playing a guitar?
4. What some advantages to playing a guitar over playing a piano?
Homework #3
Answer the following questions:
1. How do you quickly know what the notes are on the piano?
2. How do you quickly know what the notes are on the guitar?
3. What do you need to do to be able to play an instrument without looking at it?
4. What do you have to do to be able to read music?
Due Friday Dec. 14, 2012 or Friday Dec 21 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
2012-2013 C1 HW 19-27
Homework 2012-2013 C1HW#27
Using all the notes in your outline write a first draft of your research paper. Do not worry about making it five pages. It can be as long or short as it needs to be, as long as it contains all of the elements that you have provided in your outline. In class on Monday I would like you to print out a copy of your outline and your first draft of the research paper.
Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#26
For each of the three ideas that you've written in homework # 10 find three supporting statements or sources and organize them in terms of week, strong and strongest. Then put them in your outline.
Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#25
For tonight's homework you are to rewrite the body of your outline. I would like you to organize the A, B and C points in the following order; weak, strong and strongest. You may not need to rewrite everything because you can cut-and-paste or you can fold homework number 9 into this assignment. Tomorrow in computer lab we will expand upon this idea.
Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#24
Organize your 12 arguments like this.
1. Weakest argument
A. Weakest supporting argument
B. Stronger supporting argument
C. Strongest supporting argument
2. Stronger argument
A. Weakest supporting argument
B. Stronger supporting argument
C. Strongest supporting argument
3. Strongest argument
A. Weakest supporting argument
B. Stronger supporting argument
C. Strongest supporting argument
Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#23
Find three arguments or statements that support your thesis statement in your paper. Rate your arguments in order of strength. Find three arguments that support each of these arguments and rate them in order of strength. You should have a total of 12 arguments.
Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#22
Write a one page introduction to your paper.
Start by answering the question - Why did you choose this topic?
Then - What did you know about the topic before you started the research?
Then - What did you find out that you didn't know when you started?
And finally - What kind of paper are you going to write: Compare and contrast, analysis of problem, factual report or review?
Then put your thesis statement.
Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#21
Write a tentative outline for your research paper.
Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#20
Find 5 more sources for information you might use in your research paper.
Homework 2012-2013 C1 HW#19
After reading the material you selected in HW#2 and you research paper notes, write your thesis statement. Your thesis statement can be in the form of a question or what you believe is the answer to that question. You do not need to have proof yet.
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