Music Workshop

MUSIC WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

Date: Friday 7 December 2018

09:00 - 09:30:

Arrival Coffee/tea and refreshments

09:30 - 10:00

Welcome and introductions Receive programme and work Þles

10:00 - 11:30

Introduction to playing music Instrument demonstration and try-out Basic understanding of the language of music and how to communicate musically

11:30 - 11:45

Coffee break

11:45 - 12:30

Individual and small group practical instruction and practice time

12:30 - 13:15

Lunch break

13:15 - 14:00

Practice Time

14:00 - 16:00

Playing together in a group/band

16:00 - 16:30

Conclusion

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Introduction Introduct ion to Playing Music A practical guide to musical instruments and playing in a group.









Musical Instruments Te Piano and Keyboards

Te white music notes are given letter names rom A to G. (Afer G it goes back to A) We will look at the black notes later. Te we start on the note C (to the lef o the two black notes). I you play every note rom C to the next C, it is called the C major scale. ( It is 8 notes and is called an octave).

C

D E

F

G A B

C

D

E

F

G A B

1

2

3

4

5

Do

Re

Mi

Fa

So

6

7

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

La

i

Do

Re

Mi

Fa

So

La

i









Te Guitar

Acoustic Guitar

Electric Jazz Guitar

Te guitar has 6 strings. Tey are tuned rom the thickest (at the top) E A D G B E (at the bottom) Te neck has a fingerboard (where you press the lef hand fingers), and is divided into blocks called Frets. Tey are numbered rom ret 1 (near the tuning pegs).

Te Notes on the guitar. Te Low E and A string have all the notes written in. E B G D A E F

A

C G

D A

E B

F C

G D

A E









Te Bass Guitar

Electric Bass

Double Bass

Te Bass Guitar has 4 thick strings. Te notes are (rom at at the top) E A D G (thin at the bottom) Te electric bass has rets like a guitar. Te Double Bass has no rets! You have to play in tune by ear!!

G D B

C

D

F

G

A

1

3

5

A E

Tick string

E B 7

F

G

A

C

D

E

8

10

12









Te Drum Kit

Crash Cymbal

Ride cymbal

Middle toms

Hi Hat

Snare drum

Floor tom











Te language o music

Music can be divided into 5 areas. 1) Rhythm or time - the different speeds and beat eels o the music. 2) Melody - the notes used to make up a tune that is sung or played on a solo instrument. (Usually higher notes). 3) Bass - the low sounding notes that provide the undamental sound to the chords... 4) Harmony or chords - the movement o changing chord progressions. (more about this later). 5) Te Key - the starting note o the scale that makes a song easy to sing or a particular singer or instrumentalist. (More about this later).

Rhythm Music is played at diffent speeds and with various beat eels depending on the style.

BPM (beats per minute) Te speed or tempo o music is usually set at beats-per-minute (BPM) Slower songs are usually under 90 BPM Dance music is ofen set at 130 BPM

ime signature (counts per bar) Beats are usually set at number o beats per cycle or “bar”. 4 beats to the bar is counted 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 etc...









Rhythm can be written down as ollows

1

2

3

4

1

Bar or measure 1

2

3

4

Bar or measure 2

1

2

Beats can be long or short. Here is a list o beats rom long to short.

1) Te Whole note. 2

3

Te longest note lasts or 4 counts (1 Bar)

4

hold or 4 counts

2) Te Hal note. 1

2

3

4

hold or 2 counts (hal a bar)

4

Bar or measure 3

(Count and tap)

1

3

1

2

3

4

Bar or measure 4









Tere are even smaller subdivisions...!

4) Te Eighth note Hal o one beat or or count. (Short)

5) Te Sixteenth note A quarter o one beat or or count. (Shorter)

Tis is how the note or beat time length is written in normal music notation. 2

4 &4 w

ote va ues

Whole note

1 2 3

w

w

w

4 1 2 3

41 2 3

4 1 2 3

4

Hal note

&˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙

5

1 2 3

4 1 2 3

4

1 2 3

4

1 2 3

4









We also have to fill in the gaps or silences between beats. Tese are called Rests. Rests are counted rom long to short in the same way as beats or rhythms.

Rest chart

Here is a real reading exercise...

hythm studies 1 sing clap or play the following rhythms in tempo/no matter how slow or fast

& 44 w

1234

6

˙ ˙ w

1 2

3 4

˙ ˙ œœœœ

1234

12

3 4

1

2

3

4

˙ Ó ˙ œœ Ó ˙ Ó œœ

&w

1234

1 2

3 4

1 2

3

4

1 2

3

4

12

3

4

11

& œ Œ œ Œ Ó ˙ œ œ œ œ Ó œ œ œ œ Ó 1 2

3

3

1 2

3 4

1

2

3

4

1 2

3 4

1

2

3 4









Melody,, Harmony and Bass Melody

Te chromatic scale is all the notes available on any instrument. Tere are 12 notes (ie: all the white and black notes on the piano.)

C# D#

C

D E

C# D#

F# G# A#

F

G A B

C

D E

F# G# A#

F

G A B

Here is the chromatic scale on the bass guitar. Notice that the chromatic (black) notes have two names. eg: “F# is the same note as Gb”

G D











Te C major scale Tese three elements are part o the notes o a scale. Te most important scale is the major scale. Te scale starting on the C note is: C D E F G A B C Tis is the major scale in the key o C

We can visualise this scale on instruments and on a musical staff (notation). Notation.

C

D

E

F

G

A

B

C









Te intervals and learning to hear the notes. It is very important to learn to sing the notes o the major scale. Tis will eventually give you the ability to play any song by ear. Te first skill we need is to sing the notes o the major scale in steps or leaps called “intervals”.

C Do

D

E

G So

A

B

C

Mi

F Fa

Re

La

i

Do

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Sing this interval exercise...

C Do C Do

C Do

Perect Unison D Re

Major 2nd (Whole tone)









une (Melody) Melody can be written or played with one note ollowing another to create a tune. Here is a ragment o Pata Pata written out G

C CE E G F

G CC E G

G

Sa-gu-qu-ga sa-thi be-ga

Sa-gu-qu-ga sa-thi be-ga

Bass Here is the bass player’s part written out. Tis is written on a different staff to the melody. It is called the bass b ass cleff.

Bass Cle

Chords (harmony) Tis is the chord notation or the piano player.









More about chords. Te easiest way to find chords is to take them rom the scale. I the scale is seen as numbers, use the ormula 1 -3 - 5 (Do Mi So) Tis chord is a Cmajor chord. We will call it chord 1 or I (roman numeral) C 1

E 3

G 5

2

4

We can then start on the next note along (D) and repeat the ormula 1 3 5

D 1

F 3 2

A 5 4

Te next note along is E and the ormula 1 3 5 gets the notes E G B

Tis chord is a D minor chord. We will call it chord 2 or II (roman numeral)









We now have 7 chords we can use...

IIm

I

C

Dm

Do

Re

IIIm

Em Mi

IV

V

VIm

F

G

Am B dim

Fa

So

La

VII�

i

We can play them in different orders called chord progressions. Popular chord progressions are reused by many songs. Here are the most popular progressions wist and Shout - Beatles La Bamba - Richie Valens Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba Mbube - Solomo S olomon n Linda

I

IV

V

C

F

G

I

VIm

IV

V

C

Am

F

G

Donna - Richie Valen Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka Dream Dream - Everley Brothers











Te 12 bar Blues progression Te 12 bar blues progression is the oundation o many Blues, Jazz and Rock n Roll tunes. It has many variations but this is the progression in its most basic orm.

I

C IV

F

I

C

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