Homework 2012-2013 C3 #28-30

Homework #28
Answer the following questions:
1. What are some rules for playing music?
2. What are some rules that are commonly broken?
3. Do you think popular music is better or worse now than in the past? Why?
4. Do you think music now is more or less diverse? Why?

Homework #29
Answer the following questions:
1. What did Muddy Waters say the first time he heard himself recorded?
2. What are the different ways that people can record music?
3. Who invented the first sound recording device and when?
4. How has this affected our society?

Homework #30
Answer the following questions:
1. What are the usual steps for making a recording?
2. Who are some people doing research on music reproduction?
3. How does music fit into your life?
4. Who are 5 biggest musical giants to influence the music you listen to?

Due by the end of the 2012-2013 school year.

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #25-27

Homework #25
Answer the following questions:

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?

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #22-24

Homework #22

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the definition of bass in music?

2. What is the usual function of the bass in pop music?

3. What are some less common uses for bass in music?

Homework #23

Answer the following questions:

1. What are some differences between the bass guitar and a regular guitar?

2. What are the similarities between the bass guitar and a regular guitar?

3. Who invented the first bass guitar?

4. Who made the first commercially successful bass guitar?

Homework #24

Answer the following questions:

1. What are some different ways of playing the bass guitar?

2. What materials are bass guitars made of?

3. How many strings does a bass guitar have?

4. Why do some bass players use 4 fingers for the first 3 frets?

Due Friday May 24 or Friday May 31 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #19-21

Homework #19

Answer the following questions:
1. What is one artist who popularized "swing music" in the early half of the last century?
2. How was swing music different from the jazz that came before it?
3. How can you describe swing music?
4. What does it mean when someone says the music swings?

Homework #20
Answer the following questions:
1. Who invented swing music?
2. What role did technology play in the popularity of swing?
3. How did the German Nazis regard swing music?
4. What was the next music to become popular after the swing era?

Homework #21
Answer the following questions:
1. What contemporary artists regularly use elements of swing in their music?
2. What are some modern artists that have revised the swing music style?
3. What are some styles that incorporate swing into hiphop and house?
4. What was one dance style associated with swing music?

Due Friday May 17th or Friday May 24th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #16-18

Homework #16

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the most common place for a drum fill?
2. Why have drum machines become so popular since the 80's?
3. What has replaced drum machines in most pop music?
4. What was the first drum machine and  who invented it?

Homework #17
Answer the following questions:
1. What are some common forms of musical notation?
2. What does it mean when there is a little dot after a note?
3. When writing music how do you indicate that a note should be held over into the next bar?
4. How do you indicate that something should be played smooth and flowing?

Homework #18
Answer the following questions:
1. How do you play a flam?
2. What is a flam tap?
3. In traditional notation what line is the snare drum usually written on?
4. What beat does the bass drum usually play on in most pop music?

Due Friday May 10th or Friday May 17th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #13-15

Homework #13
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the key signature of the original version of "Ordinary People" from Get Lifted?
2. Why did John Legend change it for live performance?
3. What are the three chords used in "Ordinary People"?
4. What is it about those chords that makes them sound sophisticated?

Homework #14
Answer the following questions:
1. In musical notation what is the value of a note that gets 4 beats?
2. What does a half note look like?
3. When writing music how do you decide what side of the note head the stem goes on?
4. How do write 4 sixteenth notes in a row?

Homework #15
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 May 3rd or Friday May 10th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2012-2013 C3 #10-12

Homework #10
Answer the following questions:
1. What is an arpeggio?
2. What is an octave?
3. What are scale degrees?
4. What is the scale degree of fa?


Homework #11
Answer the following questions about Fur Elise:
1. What are the notes the first figure that the left hand part plays?
2. What are the scale degrees of those notes?
3. In the second figure of the right hand what direction does the arpeggio go?
4. What does the left hand part have in common with John Legend's "Ordinary People"?

Homework #12
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?

Due Friday April 26 or Friday May 3 if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)