Content:
(1) How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation?
I plan to place guitars that I know laid around the room and cut out music symbols and hang them from the ceiling and place them on walls. I'm going to have a PowerPoint as well.
(2) What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?
1: Learning how to play alongside other instruments. Bring different materials like paper rolls and tissues boxes and have them build a little band and play to show playing together even tho it will sound nothing like the real thing it's the meaning behind it.
2: Knowing how to properly maintain your guitar. Make small replicas of broken instruments or actual guitars and give them the materials to fix it. I would teach them how to doit during my presentation and then I'd let them try lit themselves.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Blog #21- 3 Column Chart
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Blog #19- Answer 2
EQ:
What is the best way to become an accomplished guitar player?
Answer 2:
Guitarist don't play along the rules of it's the player not the guitar. There needs to be an equivalent amount of effort required from the two. That's why I believe that learning how to properly maintain your guitar would better allow someone to become a more accomplished guitarist.
Evidence:
• As I did my research I found out about all these things having to do with my guitar that could potentially affect it's playability. I learned about truss rod adjustment and how that can bend your guitar too much or too little. Knowing something like this can really help someone out.
• I think one of the most essential things one needs to know is how to properly remove and put new strings. Seeing as I own both a classical and electric guitar I had to learn how to do both. As I learned I found that it can either be easy or a pain in the neck depending on what tools you use. Knowing what strings and how to place them can end with a much better sound.
• I learned that pieces of guitars have to be replaced such as the nut or saddle of guitars. I learned how to remove nut and sand them down to the right size providing correct string adjustment and maximum playability.
Source:
For my information I used 2 sources mostly. • My main source that I register my information was my service learning. I work under the wing of a guitar repair man you can call him. He has 30 years of guitar playing experience and he is teaching me what he knows. I learned that maintaining your guitar is one of the main things every accomplished guitarist needs to know.
• My second important source was a book I had been using with my service learning mentor. It is a book that explains all about guitar repairs that you can do on your own and how to do it. this book really helped me a lot because it gave step by step and exact measurements.
Conclusion:
Becoming a guitarist isn't all about just knowing how to play chords and sing songs with it. You need to be experienced all around to be at your prime condition. That's why I believe it is essential to know proper guitar maintenance because without a working guitar there is no great guitarist.
What is the best way to become an accomplished guitar player?
Answer 2:
Guitarist don't play along the rules of it's the player not the guitar. There needs to be an equivalent amount of effort required from the two. That's why I believe that learning how to properly maintain your guitar would better allow someone to become a more accomplished guitarist.
Evidence:
• As I did my research I found out about all these things having to do with my guitar that could potentially affect it's playability. I learned about truss rod adjustment and how that can bend your guitar too much or too little. Knowing something like this can really help someone out.
• I think one of the most essential things one needs to know is how to properly remove and put new strings. Seeing as I own both a classical and electric guitar I had to learn how to do both. As I learned I found that it can either be easy or a pain in the neck depending on what tools you use. Knowing what strings and how to place them can end with a much better sound.
• I learned that pieces of guitars have to be replaced such as the nut or saddle of guitars. I learned how to remove nut and sand them down to the right size providing correct string adjustment and maximum playability.
Source:
For my information I used 2 sources mostly. • My main source that I register my information was my service learning. I work under the wing of a guitar repair man you can call him. He has 30 years of guitar playing experience and he is teaching me what he knows. I learned that maintaining your guitar is one of the main things every accomplished guitarist needs to know.
• My second important source was a book I had been using with my service learning mentor. It is a book that explains all about guitar repairs that you can do on your own and how to do it. this book really helped me a lot because it gave step by step and exact measurements.
Conclusion:
Becoming a guitarist isn't all about just knowing how to play chords and sing songs with it. You need to be experienced all around to be at your prime condition. That's why I believe it is essential to know proper guitar maintenance because without a working guitar there is no great guitarist.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Blog #18- The Product
As of March, my product is having a wider knowledge of guitar playing and the guitar itself. Throughout the senior project so far there have been components that have given me knowledge I didn't once posses and also practice time to better hone my skills.
The Independent Component 1 helped me further my playing skills by playing alongside my choir and have 30 recorded hours. I noticed that little by little as I applied myself more it became easier to play along others and learn what my leader was teaching.
My science fair project allowed me to research and understand the physics side to guitar. This was something I would have never thought to look up on my own and knowing about how a guitar actually works. I learned all about the sound and how vibrations created and how you can easily find a strings frequency speed and wavelength.
The Independent Component 1 helped me further my playing skills by playing alongside my choir and have 30 recorded hours. I noticed that little by little as I applied myself more it became easier to play along others and learn what my leader was teaching.
My science fair project allowed me to research and understand the physics side to guitar. This was something I would have never thought to look up on my own and knowing about how a guitar actually works. I learned all about the sound and how vibrations created and how you can easily find a strings frequency speed and wavelength.
This is a picture during one of the choir practices.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Blog #15- Independent Component 1
I did not do a calendar but have a time log with the signature of my choir leader each day.
Literal
(a) Statement saying: "I Max Torres have completed my Independent Component which consisted of playing within my church choir, ad I have completed the assigned 30 hours."
(b) All I did was go to the choir practices and being there to okay every mass which took lots of time and ven patience because 10am to 3pm is a long time.
Interpretive
Being in a choir is not easy, I got my hours by working non stop every time I have allotted for each day. If were not carrying equipment or setting up which takes a short period of time I was either playing during a mass or I was in practice with the choir I am in possibly practicing for an upcoming event or to learn new songs.
Applied
My independent component has allowed me to further answer my EQ by proving my first answer to be correct. My first answer was that playing along with other musicians will allow you to further become an accomplished guitar player, and it's true. I had to play along with a bass, a piano, other guitars. There has been a few times in which I needed to play along with an accordion player and even a flute. All these different experiences allow you to better master your talent because it allows you to feel comfortable with other people and playing styles. All of this furthers your knowledge in music whether it be playing styles, music genre, etc.
Literal
(a) Statement saying: "I Max Torres have completed my Independent Component which consisted of playing within my church choir, ad I have completed the assigned 30 hours."
(b) All I did was go to the choir practices and being there to okay every mass which took lots of time and ven patience because 10am to 3pm is a long time.
Interpretive
Being in a choir is not easy, I got my hours by working non stop every time I have allotted for each day. If were not carrying equipment or setting up which takes a short period of time I was either playing during a mass or I was in practice with the choir I am in possibly practicing for an upcoming event or to learn new songs.
Applied
My independent component has allowed me to further answer my EQ by proving my first answer to be correct. My first answer was that playing along with other musicians will allow you to further become an accomplished guitar player, and it's true. I had to play along with a bass, a piano, other guitars. There has been a few times in which I needed to play along with an accordion player and even a flute. All these different experiences allow you to better master your talent because it allows you to feel comfortable with other people and playing styles. All of this furthers your knowledge in music whether it be playing styles, music genre, etc.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Blog #13- Answer 1
Content:
(1) What is answer 1 to your EQ?
My answer is that learning to play along with other people will help most to become an accomplished guitarist. Mainly because it helps you broaden your knowledge, make you feel comfortable playing and learn different styles. That would further help you become an accomplished guitarist.(2) What possible evidence do you have to support this answer?
The source is personal experience after playing 4 years in a choir along with other instruments.
(1) What is answer 1 to your EQ?
My answer is that learning to play along with other people will help most to become an accomplished guitarist. Mainly because it helps you broaden your knowledge, make you feel comfortable playing and learn different styles. That would further help you become an accomplished guitarist.(2) What possible evidence do you have to support this answer?
- Mainly because it helps you broaden your knowledge, make you feel comfortable playing and learn different styles. That would further help you become an accomplished guitarist.
The source is personal experience after playing 4 years in a choir along with other instruments.
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