SUMMARY

Write your daily summary last, at the end of the day here… Only one to two sentences. DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS DETAILED ABOVE AFTER COMPLETING THEM

CLASSROOM

• Time Stamp Linking: Right click the video and use embed at current time then paste
• The Language of Music
• 12 notes: relate to the keys on a piano
  • repeat themselves higher and lower (Octaves)
• Music equals the relationship of these 12 notes
• Major Scale: whole whole half whole whole whole half
  • Starts at the scales namesake note
• Practice…
• Chords: multiple notes played at the same time
  • almost always in the same key
  • Common= three notes root-third-fifth (Triad)
  • Major and Minor:
    • Major: sounds happy 4 semitones then 3 semitones? (Does it equal a half-step)
    • Minor: Sounds Sad 3 semitones then 4 semitones
    • (rare) Diminished: 3 then 3
• Practice…
• The Number system:
  • First six triads of the major scale correspond to roman numerals
  • Can be used to convert progressions between keys
• Practice…
• Inversions:
  • rearrange the three notes in a chord to change how its sounds/ played
  • Usually better to move the notes closer together (easier to play and sounds better)
  • subtley changes the flavor
  • back up with a lower octave?
• Practice…
• Melodies:
  • The most interesting part of a song
  • best ones use the relationship with the cords they are okayed on top of
    • Tension and release (notes in the chord and notes that aren’t
  • Pentatonic scales?
• Practice:
• Rythm:
  • Measures/ bars–generally seperated into 4 beats
  • can be seperated further: called subdividing
• Practice:

Karen Cheng

LAB

Explore some more songs at https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab/charts/chart/top

Write what you noticed about some of the songs you explored.  What keys were they in? What were their tempos? What about the note or chord structure was interesting? These are just some of the criteria you might want to examine. DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS DETAILED ABOVE AFTER COMPLETING THEM

I looked at Hey there Delilah by. the plain white t’s (It’s in A major and follows the “most popular chord progression”), Magical Girls by, the Aprils (Ab major and I-iii6/4-vi-IV), and Say by One republic ().

PRACTICE ROOM

Watch these videos and connect your guitar to Soundtrap and get some sound happening. Have fun exploring audio options.

• Write a brief reflection on how this process worked for you.
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OUTSIDE / WALK / JOURNAL

My nemesis as a protagonist would be learning. There’s so much I want to learn to do but I’m not organized enough to get to it all efficiently which usually makes me beat myself over what I missed out on.

STUDIO

Imagery = engagement. How do we use imagery in our everyday life? Think about the song as an intimate conversation with the listener. Describe the feeling, reasons, places, actions etc. to explain the big thought with little moments. Start on the surface, of the situation, then digging deep and finally ending by rising to the surface again.

CONTROL ROOM

I messed around with the Garage Band Piano feature and trying to copy the cord progressions of some of the hook theory songs.

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

I learned how to use the computer keyboard to practice the piano a bit on garage band. I found out how to get Hook theory to play the music even though the videos would loud by opening the files in the Hook theory pad. I watched beginner piano tutorials that taught me how to place my hands and the placement of the notes.