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Austin is a handsome, yet a hardworking gentleman. Austin has helped me countless times with late or unfinished work like no other student. He can somehow juggle being serious and funny at the same. A lot of the time Austin can make everyone laugh around him no matter what time or where, there are always good things being talked about him. People do not realize how amazing Austin can be, I’m happy to sit with such a student. Amen

JUNE Weekly work Log TEMPLATE v.2

Session Number:# 6
Week Number:# 2
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: # 3.7
What is/was your overall goal for this week? to write and practice music

Work Tasks 

Date Task Description Time Spent Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? 
6/12writing songs40 min yes because writing notes helps me remember songs that i write
6/13 practicing  
    
    
    

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June Weekly Work Log

Session Number:# 6
Week Number:# 3
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: # 3.6 hours
What is/was your overall goal for this week? too get better at guitar

Work Tasks 

Date Task Description Time Spent Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? 
6/12making a song55min yes because I am good at writing notes
6/13 making a song55min yes, writing notes
 6/14 making a song 36min yes making progress on my song
 6/15 working on mastodon  40min yes because I am practicing the solo
 6/16 making lyrics for the song 55min maybe, I did not focus all that much but still made progress

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Harmony Research, Analysis, and Recording Project TEMPLATE

  • TITLE THIS BLOG POST: Harmony Research, Analysis, and Recording Project
  • PLACE A CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGE RELATED TO THE PROJECT FROM wordpress.org/openverse AT THE TOP OF THE POST
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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 Chord Progression  (Harmony)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ReY3PiVLXYg%3Ffeature%3Doembed
  • Watch this HookTheory Harmony Tutorial
  • Make an 8-measure chord progression
  • Place a screenshot of your 8-measure chords (harmony) from hookpad.hooktheory.com
  • Link to a .mp3 file of your first HookTheory chord progression (harmony) that you exported from hookpad.hooktheory.com
  • Write a brief reflection about this chord progression (harmony).
    • What do you like about it?
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Notes from Howard Goodall’s Harmony Video

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Write your questions here…
Write your notes here… 

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

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

  • Find one of your favorite chord progressions (harmonies) at Hook Theory Tab Index of Songs
  • Place a screenshot of the chords from HookTheory
  • Embed a clean version of this song from YouTube
  • In writing, describe why you like this chord progression, and identify the musical key, tonic chord, and tension chords
    • What do you notice about the chord structure/pattern of the theme of the progression?
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My Second HookTheory Chord Progression (Harmonies)

  • Place a screenshot of the chords from HookTheory
  • Link to a .mp3 file of your second harmony from HookTheory
  • Write a brief reflection about this chord progression (harmony). What do you like about it?
    • Where did you raise tension or suspense in the chord progression (harmony)?
    • Where did you resolve tension in the chord progression (harmony)?
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What I Learned & Problems I Solved

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  • Explain how you SOLVED AT LEAST ONE PROBLEM
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Grammar and Spelling

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Editor

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  • Write their first name only
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Resources

February 2023 SMART Goal Project

SUMMARY

Focus / Instrument

Intention (SMART Goal)

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

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

Training Source(s)

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)

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

Reactions to the Final Version

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

Grammar and Spelling

Editor