Target: Identify the pattern of intervals making up a major scale.
St Learning Activities:  Daily performance of new music, C Major scale

We will test on the C scale and Tuesday and begin mastering Barre Chords. :) Songs weekly focus is:
American Pie; Class chooses a song as a group to perform that will highlight African American musicians.

Weekly Reminders:
Monday:   No School
Thursday:  Dynamics Worksheet
Friday:       Jam Session Friday

Target: Define expressiveness in music and apply it to your music.
Worksheet on dynamics is due on Thursday; music vocabulary study of dynamics their meaning and musical symbol;  Begin guitar scales- C Scale Test is on Tuesday

Working on Rock Songs from the 50s & 60s. Artists include: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream
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Sunshine of your Love           Cream                                                1967
 
Backstory: Song by the British rock band Cream uses a well-known bass riff.  The song was written by Eric Clapton and lyricist Pete Brown.  Its inspiration is from Jimi Hendrix and uses the same repetitive musical phrase.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_of_Your_Love
 
Resources: https://musescore.com/crize2foi/sunshine-of-your-love---cream-simplified-bass-tab You can listen to the arrangement here as well as use it in your app to transpose to another clef or key.
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/cream-sunshine-of-your-love-tab-s256t0
 
http://jamzone.littlekidsrock.org/songs/inthestyleof-sunshineofyourlove-by-cream/?instrument=guitar
 
Song Breakdown: This lays out the song and explains the d blues scale as well: https://youtu.be/Ouo2Ek2S_Lo
 
 
Portion of Lyrics:
 It's getting near dawn
When lights close their tired eyes
I'll soon be with you, my love
Give you my dawn surprise
I'll be with you, darling, soon
I'll be with you when the stars start falling
I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love
I'm with you, my love
 
Helpful hint when learning this song:
 
The song melody contains accidentals.  An accidental is a note that doesn’t normally occur within the key and it will last for the length of the measure.  In measures 1, 3,5 ,7 there is a G# accidental.  The other accidental listed in the song on the next page is in measure 8 and is a Gb.  Understand the accidentals and it will make learning this song much easier.
 

Target:  Define expressiveness in music and apply it to your music.


Prep for unit chord test. Begin guitar scales and bass guitar lines


Tuesday: Unit Chord Quiz
Wednesday: Early Release Day ( FSA practice Test)
Thursday: Writing session :What artists are you most interested in performing and why?