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Sleep is your Superpower

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what is the min amount of sleep long term.		Notes
lack of sleep reduces the brain chances to learn stuff.
sleep is when your sort term memory goes to long.
a lack of sleep could cause cancer.

Summary: sleep good, no sleep very bad.

Learn Better Practicing Techniques from Dr. Molly Gebrian

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long term studying.
pracice for 2 hours in 3 > 3 hours in 3
nuron stuff
button box
“the more complex the task the more spaces proctice should be.”
dont make it too long.
its worse for a brake to be too short than to long

Summary: studying with space in the middle can help remember things long term.

Rhythm Research, Analysis, and Recording Project

Summary

  • In a small paragraph, write WHAT THIS PROJECT IS ABOUT. Your audience is someone who is not in the class. So, be specific.
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My First HookTheory Rhythm (Beat)

HookTheory Drum Tutorial

Notes from Howard Goodall’s Rhythm Video

Watch How Rhythm Works (47 minutes)

CueNotes
why did death metal end-up being mostly rhythmic and propulsive.
rhythm is often implied rather than “thrashed it out on drums”.
aftercare drummers often have very complex rhythms involving several drummers.
rap and hip-hop has the vocalist driving the beat through word choice.
jazz uses many of the same weird beats.

Summary

in this i learned about rhythm in music. see below.

Rhythm Composition Terms and Definitions

  • Rhythm comes from natural things
  • rhythm is even in music when you can’t hear it
  • most beats are divided by 2,3, or 4
  • accent, pulse, sub-division
  • accents can put emphasis on one or two notes to make it sound very different
  • syncopation is a musical slight of hand that makes it sound more mischievous and playful
  • the elastication of syncopation became jazz
  • cross-rhythm is music’s party trick. its the overlay of one pattern over another
  • in Cuban music, the melody and bass line are ahead
  • the Latin push has become very common nowadays

One of My Favorite Rhythms (Beats)

phycosocial- slipknot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5abamRO41fE

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My Second HookTheory Rhythm (Beats)

In my previous harmony/melody the rhythm is outlined by the melody as the cords that are holding a steady beat but the melody changed occasionally by having two notes in half time.

What I Learned & Problems I Solved

The main thing that I learned is how to imply rhythm.

Grammar and Spelling

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Editor

  • Austin

Resources

Harmony Research, Analysis, and Recording Project

Summary

Here i learned about musical harmony. see below.

My First HookTheory Chord Progression  (Harmony)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ReY3PiVLXYg%3Ffeature%3Doembed
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Notes from Howard Goodall’s Harmony Video

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what about 2 part harmony?
harmony is regarding multiple notes at a time rather than a one note at a time melody.
discord/ dissonance is where a “wrong note” is musically played.
dissonance is used to spice up music.
most cords have a emotion attached to it.

Summary: harmony is a large part of music in every modern genre. and can hold the emotion of a song through the cord progression, despondence, suspense, and augmentation/ diminishing.

Harmony Composition Terms and Definitions

  • Harmony was not originally part of music until the middle ages and the renaissance
  • Harmony sounds like it comes from some other plane of existence (to exaggerate a bit)
  • Harmony in its simplest and oldest form in two notes playing at the same time
  • A drone is a single note that you can sing any melody above. Bagpipes are an instrument that plays a drone.
  • A drone is usually the tonic
  • When people started to move the drone around, it was like the melody and the harmony were parallel lines. As the melody moved up, the drone moved up
  • Triad – 3 notes that come together and create a chord
  • Chord progressions are the backbone of western harmony
  • People discovered the “hierarchy” of chords and created rules to go with these
  • In one note, there are other hidden notes called harmonics
  • Humans can only really pick out three or four harmonics
  • Using the harmonics humans were able to make chords by finding the notes hidden in the harmonics
  • In minor chords, the middle note is a half-step lower than in a major chord
  • Polyphony is when you have a bunch of chords under the melody
  • Polyphony – many “voices”
  • Progression – a certain series of chords or notes that “work together” and sound good
  • Tonic – the first note of a scale “home”
  • Dominant – the fifth note of a scale that raises tension
  • Passimezzo Antico – A chord progression that’s a variation of a double tonic. It was popular during the Italian Renaissance
  • Passimezzo Moderno – “Modern half step” A chord progression that’s a variation of Passimezzo Antico. It divides the section in two and often uses a contrasting progression or section known as ripresi
  • Dischord – a deliberate collision of notes that are meant not to sound “pretty”
  • Dissonance – lack of harmony between notes “a clash”
  • Passing Notes – notes that don’t sound “pretty” but are used a small number of times like they are just “passing through”
  • Suspended Notes – dissonant notes being held for as long as possible and then finally moving at the last second
  • 7th Chords – A regular triad chord plus the note seven steps above the first note
  • Diminished Chords – A regular triad chord with the bottom note being moved up a step
  • Augmented Chords – A regular triad chord with the last note being moved up a step
  • Tonic (1 and 8 chords)
    • Root note creates a feeling of resolution and stability 
  • Supertonic, Mediant, Submediant (2, 3, 6 chords)
    • Moderate tension, useful for transitions 
  • Dominant, Subdominant, Leading Tone (4, 5, 7 chords)
    • Create lots of tension to get to the tonic 

Mr. Le Duc’s Key of C Major Notes and Chords Chart (PDF)

One of My Favorite (Chord Progressions) Harmonies

  • This is without a doubt my favorite progression ever. The progression perfectly captures the emotion a the feel of a James Bond song. especially at the end where the lyrics drop and it plays the infamous chromatic ascending and descending line that is well associated with James bond. another interesting part of the cord progression is it makes seemingly terrible sounding cords sound fantastic like the cord dm7^(b5). dissonance in this song is everywhere as well.

My Second HookTheory Chord Progression (Harmonies)

  • i like that the progression uses some odd cords but still sounds fine.

What I Learned & Problems I Solved

  • i learned how part of how cords are named and used and how to take a normal cord and changing it to give it an emotion.

Grammar and Spelling

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  • Austin

Resources

Rumble: The Indians That rocked the world

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how would music be today if there was little to no segregation/ racism?The Indians had a vary diffrent singing style that may have influince rock/the blues
Indian culture mixed with afercan american culture/ music
many indian musitions were in big infuluencial bands

summary: indian have had a huge influence on the formation of jazz, rock, blues, and any other subsequent genres.

songs to share

What song has the most plays on your music device?

Song Title: In a Sea of Flames
Artist: Lorna Shore
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLptZzEXc68

What song might you listen to when you are sad?

Song Title: dancing like flames
Artist: Lorna Shore
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JglOS8TRFp4

What song might you listen to when you getting ready to go out with friends?

Song Title: The Return
Artist:Shadow of Intent
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPxLXS0wwJ4

What song might you listen to when you are alone?

Song Title: fly me to the moon
Artist: frank Sinatra
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEcqHA7dbwM&list=RDZEcqHA7dbwM&start_radio=1

What song makes you feel amazing?

Song Title: mr blue sky
Artist: electric light orchestra
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuJIqmha2Hk&list=RDZEcqHA7dbwM&index=2

Who is your current favorite artist?

Artist: Lorna Shore

SMART Goal Session 4

SUMMARY

Focus / Instrument

vocals and guitar

Intention (SMART Goal)

by march 1st, i will have evidence or a metal song by following this totorial by extream vocal instatute for session 4.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

Will Ramos. the singer of the metal band Lorna shore and known as one of the best harsh vocalist.

Ben Durre: the singer for shadow of intent and is a well renowned metal vocalist and songwriter.

Training Source(s)

SMART Goal Schedule

3/1

PRODUCTION

SMART Goal Starting Point Evidence

SMART Goal Ending Point Evidence

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving) Had to learn how to wright a whole new genre from scratch.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration) learning to take input from another person and translate it to musical ideas.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy) garage band.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career) callaborating closely w/ someone.

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

it was just us trying out the genre and practicing what we were going to do.

Grammar and Spelling

Editor

austin

Melody Research, Analysis, and Recording Project

Summary

  • I spent a week learning about melody and how it works.

Notes from Howard Goodall’s Melody Video

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what did i forget?		melody is organized into modes, modes are like scaled but difrent
the modern scale we use is the 12 note temprament scale.
the pentatonic scale is used for melodys a lot
the diffrence between notes is an interval

Summary: Summarize what you learned from the video here..

Melody Composition Terms and Definitions

  • Theme: A long, flowing melodic idea.
  • Motive: A short, rhythmic idea (Beethoven’s 5th).
  • Period: 8-12 measures or a musical sentence.
  • Phrase: Usually 4 measures.
  • Antecedent (Question) Phrase: First 4 measures of a period.
  • Consequent (Answer) Phrase: Second 4 measures of a period.
  • Scale Degrees (C Major Scale)
    • Tonic: C (1 , 8) – Stability and resolve.
    • Supertonic, Mediant, Submediant: D, E, A (2 , 3 , 6) – Moderate tension, useful for transitions and carrying on an idea.
    • Subdominant, Dominant, Leading Tone: F, G, B (4 , 5 , 7) – Causes the most tension, leads to the tonic.
  • Steps: Any movement using half or whole steps.
  • Leaps: Any movement using intervals larger than a whole step.
  • Conjunct motion: Melody is built primarily out of steps.
  • Disjunct motion: Melody is built primarily out of leaps.
  • Repetition: Repeated material (i.e. motive) used to create a link between two phrases of the period.
  • Contrast: Two phrases that contain contrasting material to create tension and interest.
  • Variation: Halfway between contrast and repetition. The two phrases include some recognizable material and some varied material (i.e. taking ideas up an octave).

One of My first Melodies

it is a dark melody but it sounds ok.

fav melody

duality by slipknot.

I like that this melody is catchy and is sung and it has hash vocals with identifiable notes.

key:B tonic: f# tension: G and f#

notes: the singer has a lot of nuances in his singing that is hard to show in notation. there is also a fair bit of repetition in the melody.

My Second HookTheory Melody

  • I like how this melody sounds because the most of the notes are in a descending motion.
  • the notes that are used to built tension in Bb and the note used to release tension is F and E

What I Learned & Problems I Solved

  • learned the terms behind melody. the problems i solved were how to end my second melody with the melody not being too repetitive.

Grammar and Spelling

Editor

Austin

Resources

SMART Goal Project 3

SUMMARY

Role guitar/song writing

Finish my song by 1/13

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

synister gates. the guitarist of a big band named avenged sevenfold which has many of there songs in Call of Duty

Training Source(s)

this video of AX7. them talking about the making of The Stage one of their biggest songs.

SMART Goal/Schedule

I want to make a song by 1/13 that sounds good.

PRODUCTION

SMART Goal Starting Point Evidence

SMART Goal Ending Point Evidence

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)

I learned more about problem solving as I had to deal with tech problems every step of the way.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

I learned calibrate with another guitarist.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I learned how to use garage band better.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

I learned how to time manage much better.

self evaluation

The song was ok but vary rough and the timing was everywhere. And next time I wont make many key mistakes that i did this time.

Grammar and Spelling

Austin

Editor

Austin

SMART Goal Project TEMPLATE

SUMMARY

Role guitar/song writing

Finish my song by 11/18

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s) Synister Gates

Training Source(s)

https://www.youtube.com/@avengedsevenfold/videos

SMART Goal Schedule

PRODUCTION

SMART Goal Starting Point Evidence

SMART Goal Ending Point Evidence

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving) I learned problem solving as I had to deal with tech problems every step of the way.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration) I learned callaberate with a drummer.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy) I learned to use edublogs better.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career) I leaned how to work in a heavy time constraint.

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

i think my song is okay but is rough around the edges and i dint do vocals on it. I will likely revisit it when Im better.

Grammar and Spelling

Grammarly

Austin

Editor

Austin

production project session 1

SUMMARY

Role: guitar

Intention (SMART Goal):I want to make a good song that i would enjoy making and listening to by Oct, 14th by watch “How Music Works with Howard Goodall – Melody”.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

Training Source(s)How Music Works with Howard Goodall – Melody”.

SMART Goal Schedule Oct 14th

PRODUCTION

SMART Goal Starting Point Evidence

Mo recording, just riff riff writing and making a cord progression.

SMART Goal Ending Point Evidence

(don’t share)

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)

Problem solving in how to fix technical problems, and time problems.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

Staying focused and making a plan before doing things.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

Focusing on a task

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

Focusing on a tasking a planing/time management.

Reactions to the Final Version

Not done yet

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

Grammar and Spelling

Editor

Connor