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Q4 Blog #14: Memory5/20/2018
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Memory, however, is not always perfect. Sometimes, I would get a note incorrectly or play it at the wrong length or volume. Muscle memory makes so that whatever you're doing become automatic. For example when I play the viola, sometimes I could play songs or scales that I practiced enough to develop muscle and play it automatically. Other instances, could be typing or texting that people do basically like a robot. Other activities like walking, running, or writing we have developing a muscle memory and could it like a machine. We take those skills for granted. If you were to lost these basic abilities, life would be much more difficult, but anyone would adapt to these changes.
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Q4 Blog #13: Tempo5/5/2018
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This past few weeks I have learned about how time is affected in music. The ideas of tempo and timing are fundamental in playing any piece of music well. How fast or slow the music is played affects how it will sound and how listeners can differentiate it from other piece of music. Timing is also important in one's everyday life as well. How we get some done and for how long you do it. For example, if you are multitasking and trying to get many things done at once, it would be important to know precisely when you will get it done to maximize efficiency of time. Time is a fundamental measurement of the passage of well, existence that is in an irreversible direction. But even time could be relative to different people. It is commonly said that time passes faster when you're having fun and slower when you dwell on it. This definitely feels to be true no mater how you ask. Ultimately, humans have been on the Earth for a few hundred years, however Earth has been around for billions of years. The average human today lives to be around 70, so in the whole scale of the Universe we are but a fraction of time and space.
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Q4 Blog #12: Major Scales4/21/2018
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Here I explored the some other core values of music; Rhythms and Dynamics. How I practice rhythms is to clap them out or play a scale with them. To practice dynamics, you need to control the amount of pressure you place on each note; more pressure= louder and less pressure=softer. My quarter 3 goals were to learn some scales and to memories and play complex songs. I would say neither goals was meet currently. I am still trying to learn the major scales, which should be hard since I could play them on viola. The tricky part is to learn things like minor scales. Memorizing song has also been a challenge since I still need to look at my hands at times while playing. The difficult here is to memorize what chords to play and where to play them as they are a collection of three or more notes being played at the same time. I would say that the goals I set for myself during quarter 1 to be accomplished by quarter were definitly too ambitious for the given amount of time I had. *Q3 goals could be found in the Q1 proposal in the about projects page
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Q3 Blog #10: Core Values3/24/2018
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The few main cores of playing music well are notes, tempo, rhythms, melody, and dynamics. During these few weeks I had been practicing on melodies and how the song should sound. One way to change a song sounds, is to change the duration of the notes. Other ways include changing the tempo, how fast or slows the song is played, and the dynamics, how loud or soft the song is played. Just like with other subjects, music is comprised of core values that determined quality of it. Literature has comprehension, composition, analysis, and interpretation. To be master literature is to master all these values that comprises it. Another subject could be Mathematics. It involves memorization, patterns, problem-solving, logical reasoning, and application.
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Q3 Blog #9: Scales3/11/2018 Progress: Since the last blog, I have learn to play in G position, on the right. for right hand in it require to place your thumb into g then the next finger onto ascending notes. For left hand, it require you to place for thumb on D and other fingers onto the descending notes. Some songs in the workbook include Love Somebody! and A Friend Like You. I also learn to play the C Major Scale. Reflection:
For my quarter 3 goals, I set out to learn some scales. So far, I know how to play the C Major, which is just one C to the next octave C. It involves only the white keys, so it is is relatively simple. The black keys are the sharp and flat notes. (C#, Eb, F#, G#,Bb) Scales in music provide for you a way to organize music compositions. Players can know what scale their music is composed by looking for the sharp (#) and flats(b). This can tell them about the notes that will appear or how the song will sound to listeners. Knowing how something is organized give you a better understanding of the topic at hand. For a graded assignment, looking at a rubric or knowing how it would be graded would most likely improve your score and learn the material.
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Q3 Blog #8: Skills Building2/18/2018 Reflection:
In my quarter 1 goals, I set the goal to learn harder songs by Q3 and I believe this qualifies as harder because of the hand eye coordination. I would have to at the musical notation, interpret it as actions my hands would have to perform to produce that music. I already play viola, so this is no new process I would have to learn as I constantly play from music sheets or from memory. I have learned that skills develop through having a foundation. To do more complex/ complicated tasks, you would have to master the simpler task to the point where you can do it on auto-pilot. for example in Mathematics, having a strong foundation in earlier math is often required and necessary.
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Q2 Blog #6: We Roll Along1/7/2018 Progress: For this blog post, I wanted to continue learning about chords. This time we are focusing on the G7 chord (B, F, and G). The song Merrily We Roll Along is a nursery rhyme for kids. It is relatively simple with a 5-note melody and the C major and G7 chords. Reflection: I wanted to continue learning about chords since they are what fundamentally shape music. It was/is difficult to play multiple notes at the same time. It is begins, written on paper, then transfer to information that your brain interprets to be music, which send signals your hand to play. This require much hand-eye(-brian-paper) coordination.
As for my performance, it was average. The only complaint was that you hear the breaks between the transition of chords (C and G7). It was quite difficult to get your hands to play essentially different parts. It required much thinking and still I took multiple takes to get at an. average level.
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Q2 Blog #5: Chords12/22/2017 Progress: For this blog post, I learned about chords, three notes being play at the same time. I started with the C major chord(C, E, and G). Chords is what develops the harmony many geneses of modern western music. If you listen closely you will here these chords in Brother John, a nursery rhyme for kids. Reflection: With the addition of the chords another layer of complexity comes to playing piano. There is more stuff to focus on from the main melody of a song to the bass line and chords of the harmony. With stuff you have to focus on, it would be harder to focus on what you are harder on the left hand, usually the harmony, and the right hand, usually the melody. As for the performance, tempo fluctuated and emphasis and certain notes are inconsistent.
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Q2 Blog #4: Yousician11/25/2017 Progress: For this blog post, I wanted to check up own my progress on Yousician and continuing practice and learning on that platform. I'm now learning about simple classics songs that can be played with 5 notes. In Beethoven's 9th symphony Movement "Ode to Joy," the iconic theme can be heard. I will be playing a much simpler version of this piece. Reflection: Yousician is interactive service that you can learn to play an instrument on. I chose to learn how to play piano. It is amazing how there is a app that can help you learn something. Soon everything we do could be operated and/or operated by machines. For example, education has evolved to include technology in the form of slides presentations, to online homework The world is become more digital by the second and everything will eventually be digital.
As for the performance, it was average. Timing was good, just toward the end was some. note discrepancies. |