Monday, May 19, 2014

Week 7: Ear Training Requirements and Rhytmic Notation

Greetings Class,

Look under the Week 7 tab. This is what you will need to be able to do as far as ear training goes for this class. Do a little work on it every day at any keyboard and you will do fine on the final.

For the the meter section, just go to you tube and listen. But you must go to Country and Western to hear much in triple meter, or just type in "Waltz" so that you can hear plenty of triple meter music and be able to recognized it and distinguish it from duple meter. Almost all of today's Pop and Hip-Hop is in duple meter. 

The meters are usually 4/4 and  the melodic or poetic phrasing will be in groups of 8 (8 measures of 4/4)


Here is a useful website:

 https://sites.google.com/a/friscoisd.org/ap-music-theory-whs/section-1-updated