Friday 12 February 2010
Saturday 6 February 2010
Week 5 1st - 4th February 2010
This week we started to work through a whole piece of music. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday's classes started to look through 'Mountains' by Biffy Clyro - which can be found on our Spotify Playlist here .
Wednesday's class (Big Dave's posse) started to work through a Rockschool Grade 3 piece called 'Download' - which in many ways is very similar.
Both tunes have passages where you will have to move from playing an 8th note groove into a quarter note groove. Now remember YOU ARE NOT SLOWING DOWN! The tempo is staying the same but when you're playing quarter notes you are putting the 'back beat' on 3 rather than 2 and 4.
As a reminder ....
Wednesday's class (Big Dave's posse) started to work through a Rockschool Grade 3 piece called 'Download' - which in many ways is very similar.
Both tunes have passages where you will have to move from playing an 8th note groove into a quarter note groove. Now remember YOU ARE NOT SLOWING DOWN! The tempo is staying the same but when you're playing quarter notes you are putting the 'back beat' on 3 rather than 2 and 4.
As a reminder ....
Thursday 4 February 2010
Week 3/4 : Part 2 "Playing the Odds"
Odd Time Signatures
Normal or 'common' time is referred to as 4/4, meaning there are 4 quarter notes (crotchets) in a bar. This is sometimes referred to as 'common time' and is notated by a C at the beginning of the music.
We started to look at music that has an 'Odd" Time Signature - meaning an amount, other than 4, of pulses in a bar.
The first one we looked at was in 5/4 - which means there are 5 quarter notes in a bar. Play through the groove below remembering to count 1-2-3-4-5.
We then looked at a basic 'Rock-Waltz' in 3/4. Again have a go at the groove below, counting 1-2-3, 1-2-3 etc
Having looked at grooves that move in an odd number of quarter notes we then moved on to 'odd' 8th note patterns.
A time signature of 7/8 means there are 7 8th notes in a bar. The count for this can be either simply 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 etc or 1-and-2-and-3-and-4 (remember ... NO 'and' of 4).
Play through the groove below and find out which method of counting works for you.
Normal or 'common' time is referred to as 4/4, meaning there are 4 quarter notes (crotchets) in a bar. This is sometimes referred to as 'common time' and is notated by a C at the beginning of the music.
We started to look at music that has an 'Odd" Time Signature - meaning an amount, other than 4, of pulses in a bar.
The first one we looked at was in 5/4 - which means there are 5 quarter notes in a bar. Play through the groove below remembering to count 1-2-3-4-5.
We then looked at a basic 'Rock-Waltz' in 3/4. Again have a go at the groove below, counting 1-2-3, 1-2-3 etc
Having looked at grooves that move in an odd number of quarter notes we then moved on to 'odd' 8th note patterns.
A time signature of 7/8 means there are 7 8th notes in a bar. The count for this can be either simply 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 etc or 1-and-2-and-3-and-4 (remember ... NO 'and' of 4).
Play through the groove below and find out which method of counting works for you.
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