For the Test This Week:
You will be doing 2 music review assignments.
One will done in class as a test, the other will be done on your own time (maybe with some class time) and posted to your blog.
PS Some people are already failing this class because they don’t have up to date blogs. Ouch. Why is this? I have no idea.
Why not send email to thelabcoatguy@gmail.com and then you will pass this course?
Doing Review 1 – in-class review
You will listen to a song. You should listen once without writing, then once with note-taking.
What will I write?
Marks will be given for rough notes -> observations
First Part of Observations:
Parts of a Song – what instruments, what are they doing, what does the song structure do?
(remember those pieces we described)
Lyrics – what are they? What do they mean? What is the point? Is there story?
Read into it like in English class
Comparison – what does this sound like, if anything?
What genre is this? What other bands/performers do this kind of thing? How does this match up? Looking for originality?
Some songs twist existing ideas and formats.
Looking for the difference and saying whether it’s good or not.
Need to have a reason.
Effect and Response on you.
What is your response and why?
What works, what doesn’t?
What pops into your head and why?
What do you see or remember? Take me to the same place.
Moving out of simply music and into thinking about putting pictures to music.
Therefore, you want to be making music that evokes memory or thoughts or ideas or can be put to a feeling very clearly
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