School of Rock – Day 1 – Silence, Safety, Tools, and Goals
SUMMARY
Today I learned about sound, software and some basic information about guitars.
CLASSROOM
Listen to https://onbeing.org/programs/gordon-hempton-silence-and-the-presence-of-everything/
Safety
Watch 3-minute video preview: https://www.hrmvideo.com/catalog/listen-smart-safely-handling-the-power-of-sound
Add details to the notes below that you found interesting…
- Goal: listen to music in a way that it will enrich but not harm you
- 10%-20% of high schoolers have hearing damage
- Hearing damage can happen in one occasion, doesn’t have to be constant
- No cure!
- Temporary Threshold Shift: “hearing hangover”
- Wearing earplugs doesn’t change the quality of sound but just the volume
- High-frequency loss is most commons with musicians
- Distancing yourself from the source and earplugs are the best way to prevent hearing loss
- Stimulants while listening to music can increase the risk of hearing damage
- Resting your ears is important, space out concerts
- 70 dB, no risk
- 85 dB, risk after 8 hours
- 91dB, 2 hours without damage
- 100 dB, 15 minutes without damage
- 115 dB, 1 minute without damage
- 140 dB, immediate damage and pain
- Symptoms of damage, tinnitus, muffled hearing, and other mental and physical problems like irritability, depression, high blood pressure, and fatigue
- damage is done when the cochlea hair cells in the inner ear are damaged, they do not grow back. These are what interpret vibrations and turn them into what we hear
- cochlea hairs vibrating creates the sound we hear
- when they are overstimulated, they become paralyzed.
- ussually happens during the first five to ten years in a noisy enviroment
- two causes of hearing loss
- natural and noise induced
- natural hearing loss caused by blocked ear canal, perpetrated ear drum, brain damage, head injuries
- could be reversed
- noise induced is irreversible, from loud noises
- natural hearing loss caused by blocked ear canal, perpetrated ear drum, brain damage, head injuries
- natural and noise induced
Advice
- Explore SoundAdvice.info For Audio Career Tips
- Examine soundadvice.info for information about sound safety in the workplace
- Take notes on sound careers and safety
- everyone involved in music and entertainment should help with noise management
- the employer should provide regulations to help with sound
- the employee should also try to protect them selves from bad sounds
LAB
Explore some songs at https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab
It is interestiong to be able to see the components of popular songs layed out on a website. I learned that songs can be split in different yet similar categories of measures. I also learned about hooks
PRACTICE ROOM
Set a STRETCH goal here…
- I would like to be able to play smoke on the water or eventually stairway to heaven
Guitar Tabs Explained
- You use the numbers on the tab to decide what notes to use
- The dot notation gives you the rhythmic information
- The E note can be played in multiple ways
JOURNAL
- type the url of your blog into the address bar to see what other people see when they view it
- if you click view all posts, you can look at all of the posts on your blog
- add images to every blog post
- to do this, click add media
- people can leave comments under you blog
- they have to be approved for people to look at them
- you can look at live previews of themes for your blog
STUDIO
Start Soundtrap.com expert training here…
https://academy.soundtrap.com/p/soundtrap-expert
CONTROL ROOM
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
Today I learned about sound, guitars and edublogs by watching several videos and taking notes. I enjoyed getting certified on soundtrack.com because it was a really straightforward and informational process. There was more work than I was expecting but I enjoyed doing it! I learned a lot today.
