School or Rock – Day 3 – Melody Basics
SUMMARY
Today I learned about melody and I started to learn the notes on the guitar.
CLASSROOM
Watch How Melody Works (47 minutes)
- Every music system in the world uses the same five notes. They are pentatonic
- Western Music has 12 notes. Other cultures have more notes
- Melody is about mixing and matching intervals
- playing the same note as someone else from opposite directions sounds good. creates discord
- Blues notes are notes in between notes
- Melodies Help control the song
LAB
Watch the tutorial and write the melody to twinkle twinkle.
Melody: 11556654433221
How was this activity? Write a reflection on what you did and learned.
PRACTICE ROOM
- Before Today I was unfamiliar with the notes on the guitar and I had fun learning them.
OUTSIDE / JOURNAL / IDEAS
Don’t worry about not living up to your past work, just try your best and keep living life. Don’t be afraid and keep doing your job.
STUDIO
- By Jamie Henke, music.wisc.edu/faculty/jamie-henke/
- As you watch Jamie Henke define and explain melody terms, YOU write them below…
- Period: Eight Measures of Music
- Phrase: Set of four measures
- Antecedent Phrase/ Question Phrase: First Phrase
- Consequent/Answer Phrase: Second Phrase
- (hint: if the definition appears on the screen, pause and write it down)
Melody Composition Terms
- Theme: A long more flowing melodic idea
- Motive: A short rhythmic idea
- Period: Eight Measures of Music
- Phrase: Set of four measures
- Antecedent (Question) Phrase: First Phrase
- Consequent (Answer) Phrase: Second Phrase
- Scale Degrees Names: Names of Notes in Measures that cause tension and relief
- Tonic: Begins and ends the scale, determines key
- Supertonic, Mediant, Submediant: Give you some need to move foreword. It between kind of tension
- Dominant, Subdominant, Leading Tone: They have foreword leaning force. Cause the most tension
- Steps: any movement using half or whole steps
- Leaps: any movement using intervals larger than a whole step
- Conjunct motion: Melody primarily built out of steps
- Disjunct motion: Melody Primarily built out of leaps
- Repetition: Use repeated material to create a link between the two phrases of a period
- Contrast: write two phrases that contain contrasting material to create tension and interest
- Variation: Halfway between repetition an contrast. The two phrases contain some recognizable material and some varied material
Melody Resources
Mr. Le Duc’s Key of C Major Notes and Chords Chart (PDF)
CONTROL ROOM
- At first the software was confusing to me but I got it eventually. I am enjoying learning new technologies in this class.
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
I enjoyed learning about the notes on the guitar today. I have no previous experience on the guitar so it was fun to start learning. My sister helped me when I was confused about some of the notes which was nice of her.