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Lesson 1 Notes - The 6 Main Areas of Music:
Music is the LANGUAGE of sound expressed by a musician who uses it to communicate and extract a level of human satisfaction using an instrument as a tool of their expression over a period of time.
A musician needs to know what they're doing and be able to learn and play songs from beginning to end.
They need to be great listeners. In order to be a good player one has to:
1. Choose doable material and get to the end of the song.
2. Access yourself. Ask, how did I do? Correct mistakes with repetitive practice until mastery.
Truthfully answer the following questions...
Music is made up of these six main points:
1. Pitch: high & low frequency of notes you play in patterns. Chords (groups of notes played at once),
scales (sequence of notes played individually), melody, harmony, intervals, progressions are all part of
this category. Using the language metaphor this is all akin to using words. Music has an alphabet.
Question to ask yourself: Did I play the right notes?
2. Rhythm: Beat, tempo, timing
Question to ask yourself: Did I keep with the beat?
3. Dynamics: loudness (or softness), volume, amplitude
Question to ask yourself: Did I play loud enough in the loud parts and soft enough in the soft parts of a song?
4. Timbre: Sound quality, tone, EQ, Instruments, amplifiers, effects, distortion, chorus, etc. Change
your strings because they lose their tone over time.
Question to ask yourself: How did I sound?
5. Technique: Physical interaction with the instrument using fingers, toes, whatever body interface you
have access to in order to interface with the machine/instrument.
Question to ask yourself: Did I cooperate with the machine (my instrument)?
6. Notation: Read & Write
Question to ask yourself: Hows my reading and writing coming along?
