Homework 2013-2014 C1 #7-9

Homework #7
Answer the following questions:
1. What are the main parts of every guitar?
2. What is the number of the thickest string?
3. How many frets in an octave?

4. What is the order of operations for tuning the guitar?

Homework #8

Answer the following questions:
1. What notes are which strings tuned to in standard tuning on the guitar?
2. What notes are which strings tuned to in open D tuning?
3. How many chords are in the the song "These Boots Are Made For Walking"?
4.  Why is the rhythm to "Proud Mary" difficult to play?

Homework #9
Answer the following questions:
1. What is a power chord?
2. What is the shape of a power chord on the guitar?
3. What are downstrokes?
4. What is cross picking?

Due Friday October 4th or Friday October11th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com)

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #4-6

Homework #4

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the middle point between the G and A keys on the piano?
2. What is it called when notes are written down?
3. What are the numbers of each finger in piano music?
4. How many lines does the staff have in traditional notation?

Homework #5
Answer the following questions:

1. What does it mean when there is a treble clef at the beginning of the staff?
2. What is the nemonic to help you remember the spaces in the treble clef?
3. What is the nemonic to help you remember the lines in the treble clef?
4. What is the name of the music that we learned in Garageband Piano lesson #2?

Homework #6
Answer the following questions:
1. What fingers do you usually use for a root position chord?
2. What is an arpeggio?
3. What popular song did we learn that uses an arpeggio last week?
4. What is one rule for fingering on the piano?

Due by Sept 27th or October 4th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com).

Homework 2013-2014 C1 #1-3

Homework #1

Answer the following questions:
1. What are the harmonics of a string?
2. What are the two strongest harmonics?
3. What are some factors that affect pitch?
4. What are some things you need to tune a piano?

Homework #2
Answer the following questions:

1. Who formalized the musical scale as we know it?
2. What was the invention that he used to do it?
3. What was the error he made in his discoveries?
4. Why do musicians ignore the error?

Homework #3
Answer the following questions:
1. How many different white notes are there on a piano?
2. What are the names of the different black notes?
3. Why should your wrists be straight when playing the piano?
4. Who are 5 biggest musical giants to influence the music you listen to?

Due by Sept 20th or Sept 27th if by email (albertwestside@gmail.com).

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)