Welcome! here you will find almost everything you need to know for year 8 music this year
Unit term one - Rock music
week one
What is Rock music? Here is a Video that may be of some use
What are some famous bands/artists that call them selves rock musicians?
Rock music Really began in the 1950's Elvis Presley was certainly a pioneer in this area. His powerful stage presence and personal made him very popular and in the early days he was a symbol of Rock music.
Task...
Brainstorm
What are elements that contribute to rock music? How is it that we can call something rock music?
- Musical features
- Social features
- other
What Elvis perform 'Hound Dog' what elements discussed above can you see here?
Performance Task
First we will learn some chords on piano and guitar. Click Here for chords piano and guitar diagram
Twelve bar blues in C
I C I C I C I C I
I F I F I C I C I
I G I F I C I G :II
Try to play the above progression on either piano or guitar using the Diagrams provided
explain i iv v
write on boardWEEK 2
60's Rock...The BeatlesThe sixties was the start of what was know as the British invasion. Formerly, rock 'n' roll had been dominated and owned by Americans - it was their own music. The Beatles started a major phenomenon which would be followed by bands such as the Rolling Stones and Cream.
The development of the recording studio and technology led to a change in the form of the band. As a result sound and quality of recording altered the way in which music was composed and transmitted.
During the 60's there was a move away form the band leader, front man to the formation of the 'Rock Group'. The Beatles demonstrated this by each sharing an almost equal load in writing and performing their music.
Aural Activity
Listen to the following two recordings of the Beatles classic "I Wanna hold your Hand". Answer the questions bellow2008
Mc'fly "I Wanna' Hold Your hand'
Beatles "I Wanna' Hold Your hand'
What are similarities/differences? (think about how the instruments sound)
How can you see that these bands are groups? Does each member have a equal roll?
Drawing on last weeks discussion, what elements of Rock and Roll can you observe?
Which recording do you prefer?
Describe the difference in Guitar tone color between the two recordings?
This song uses very simple chords like many Beatles songs. Though the Beatles are highly regarded for their song writing capabilities. How do you think they make the song interesting? Why are they so popular?
Week 4
the 70s...performance is to continue learning chords from the last two weeks, As well as the introduction of Am.
Listening. Deep Purple
Walk This Way Aerosmith, Layla (Derick and the dominos) Money (Pink Floyd), Black Dog other cool riffs of the 70's
Musicology/key words
Discussion...what is a Riff?
Composition a Riff on your instrument
Week 5
The 80's...Hair, Leather, Denim, and The huge Snare drum.The 80's brought yet further advances in studio recording capability and the progression of of music technology. this was large, if not entirely, to do with the surfacing of computer technology amongst the everyday procedure of life. The 80's is notified as the beginning of the Digital age where computer technology changed to sound of amplification (guitar sound), the process of recording (now multiple digital track not tape) and some cool new instruments hit the streets such as the synthesiser and keytar.
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| Roland AX-Sythn (keytar) |
Reverby snares (snare drum), 'FX'pedals and the Keytar (synthesiser) were all major contributors to the sound, the Tone Colour of 80's Rock.
H/Work
Key word search...
Reverb (in relation to sound effects)
Keytar
Snare Drum
Multitrack Digital recorder
Synthetic
LISTENING TODAY
Van Halen - jump
- what instrument is playing the opening riff?
- describe the tone colour of this instrument
- draw a graph of the structure of this piece to show where the riff is played
Introduction of assessment task composition and performance task
Week 6
Rock in the 90's the grunge movement...
Three piece band reduction in texture...
Grunge term that outlines much of what 990's rock entailed. The 90's is an era coupled with post-modernism which saw a move away from virtuosic playing to a more industrial, raw, less-polish sound. This sound was established and made famous by bands such as Nirvana a band from Seattle. Silverchair was Australia's answer to the ever-popular Nirvana as they emulated and entered the market at just the right time.
Week 7
Rock in the 00's...focus on Texture, Tone Colour and Structure
- A Return to studio sound high quality recording
- many layers multiple guitars and effects
- inclusion of non-typical instruments (like the 80's) thanks to a progression in computer technology
Texture: Layers of sound,
Tone Colour: The quality of the sound ( describe the sound of an instrument)
Structure: sections that build a piece, form, construction from different sections
Blurb..."Neutron Star Collision" from Muse is almost a perfect culmination of all the decades of rock music we have studied so far. It combines elements from many other eras. Check out the likeness with this particular track from bands Like Queen ('Don't Stop me now') (70's) the similar pounding bass line from Dream Theatre in the (80's) and elements of Avant-garde andprogressive rock.
list some similarities
Homework due Monday the 19th
- Draw A graph of texture (layers of sound) in this piece
- last week we talked about the 90's and the move away from the studio recorded sound. Muse is certainly a demonstration of the return to heavy study production. Describe the overall Tone colour of this recording compared to last weeks Silverchair. (consider recording choices)
- what do use notice about the start and finish of the piece? how is this a structural technique?
here is the official assesment task sheet click here to download and print if desired
Week 8
Rock music...at church?
Thanks to artists like Petra, Michael W Smith church music really began to grab so rock music fans in the 80's. This trend has certainly continued right up until now. there has often been debate over whether it is ok to play loud fast even aggressive music to worship God. There is a famous song by Larry Norman called "Why Should the Devil Have all the good Music". Lyrics Song Here. But I think this why of thinking sums it up perfectly. As in everything, we should play music for God music genre (style) is no exception.
1)Should rock music be allowed in church?
2) can you worship God with this type of music?
3)describe the tone colour of the Guitar in this piece
4) how do you feel when you listen to this piece?
Week 9
"COOL" - Recap
Rock summary H/W summaries the meaning of Texture tone color and structure in terms of music
How would you describe the genre of Rock? How is it that something cant be called Rock music?
List five elements
Listening "Would did you think I was"
Identify Riff,
Map structure,
Describe the tone color of the guitar how is this similar or different to the vocals?
How do the lyrics relate to the Rock genre? Do they?
KEY terms Genre, Texture, Tone Colour, Structure
Week 10.
So now that we have talked a little about rock music as well as musical concepts Texture, Tone Colour and structure, we have some idea about the impact that Rock music as a style had on the music we listen to everyday. We have some understanding of the origins of Rock in Jazz and Blues as well as some of the influences along the way such as classical and the power of the recording studio.
We also had a go at writing and recording some of our own material as we partook in the writing and recording process. Now, take a couple of minuet to reflect on your project...
What did you like about the project?
what did you dislike?
Did you feel like you learnt valuable skills if yes what?
if no what would you have liked to have learnt?
What worked well? think about you skills, group, individual performance etc.
What went wrong? how can we manage these things better for next time?
What mark would you give yourself out of ten?
Let us talk briefly about the impact of the recording studio and recording technology on rock music.
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