School of Rock – Day 10 – Community

• We figured out a song and started deciding who will do what in the project.
• Remember to also add an entry to your Goal Page underneath your goal statement.
• Create a heading titled, ‘July 12th Work’.
• Write one descriptive paragraph detailing WHAT YOU DID and LEARNED today
• … AND THEN DELETE ALL THESE WORDS!

• 5 Things I Wish I Knew As A Beginner Guitarist (13:42)
• Continue Justin’s 117 Free Lessons YouTube Playlist
• Jake Lizzio’s 5 blues guitar tutorials
• How to Practice Guitar Chords: Exercises, Tips, and Advice
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I watched videos 17-19 on Justins free lessons.

What I learned was a good way to learn a chord which was to put your fingers on the strings, make corrections, tell yourself that is the correct way to play the chord, and repeat.

• Explore SongExploder .net episodes
• Explore Holistic Songwriting’s Artist Series
• Explore Genius’ Songs Deconstructed Series
• Explore Rick Beato’s What Makes This Song Great Series
• Embed a YouTube video link you watched or the link of the SongExploder .net episode
• Write a reflection of the key topics that got your attention – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!

• From the video I watched today I learned:
  • To find the amount of music you need you multiply min x bpm / beats per measure = number of measures you need.
  • How to make a simple chord progression into a more complex one
    • Two techniques
      • play with the quality of the chords / try t use more complex sounding qualities without compromising the chord progression
        • One way is to experiment with making chords into sevenths
      • Focus on the flow of the progression
        • Making sure we are still using cadence properly
        • Remembering to do things like connecting bass lines
        • Making sure the chord progression is coherent
    • Don’t start off too complicated because more complexity can be added later.

• Listen to freakonomics.com/podcast/peak-rebroadcast/
• Embed the podcast link you listened to
• Journal here about that. The more detail the better – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!

• Songwriting Corner
• Songwriting Exercises 
• 5 Minute Lessons 

During this time I worked on Trello for our collaboration.

• Sound trap tutorial 5 – Arranging the song, Mixing and adding effects
• all five videos in the playlist
• Sound trap Support (Effects and Mixing)
• Swick’s Classroom Recreating Chainsmokers

From sound trap tutorial 5 I learned that songs like stories, have rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.

Soundtrap still isn’t working.

• Tell your daily story here!  Highlight what you learned and enjoyed most and at least one problem you solved. Problem-solving is one of the most important skills you need in life. Employers want to know HOW you get stuff done as much as WHAT you got done – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!