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31 august - first attempt at the 12 bar blues on keyboard - I'm getting used to navigating the keyboard so I missed some notes. My counting was ok otherwise. I need to keep practising so that my muscle memory works

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31 august - first attempt at the 12 bar blues on keyboard - I'm getting used to navigating the keyboard so I missed some notes. My counting was ok otherwise. I need to keep practising so that my muscle memory works

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My goal is to bring up my drumming skills.
I am going to work within the rock genre - songs like Californication, ACDC, Artic Monkeys.
I am going to work on my tempo-keeping skills by playing with a metronome at 85, then 95, 105 ..etc to 125bpm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a39Jmk9fnM

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If you could continue with verbally recording your goals, introducing what your thoughts are about how your composition is going, evaluating your performance and keeping up with posting recordings... you'll do extremely well and hopefully not find it too much a challenge to do every class. However, right now, it's very hard for me to comment on your overall development as there's not very much to assess.
I will speak with Ms Gelica to ask her to help remind you that posting consistently is the easiest way to ace this so you can take some time in strategies to do this also.

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1. Chord progression - A series or pattern of chords. For example, C major / A minor / F major / G major is a very common pop song chord progression. CCCC  FFCC GFCC is an example of a 12-bar blues progression.

1. Walking bass - When a bass (= low pitch) instrument such as a double bass, electric bass, piano left hand, trombone etc plays a pattern of notes that seem to “walk up” and then down in pitch, each note usually lasting 1 beat.

1. Call and response - Like a musical “question and answer.” Usually, one instrument/voice plays/sings a phrase, and another instrument or group of instruments plays back another phrase (or sometimes it can be a very similar phrase), like a conversation.

1. Dissonant harmonies - The opposite of “consonant harmonies” - when notes are played together that clash or create a combination of notes that isn’t exactly “pleasing.” Dissonance, when used intentionally, can be very expressive.

1. Syncopation - When the beats emphasized are not on the expected regular/symmetrical beats (“regular” beats are like a metronome).

1. Melisma - In singing, when one word is stretched out into multiple notes per syllable.

1. Flattened ‘blue’ notes - When notes are “bent” down in pitch to create a bluesy/jazzy effect.

1. Chromatic - When music uses not just the notes in a major/minor scale, but use the semitones between notes you would expect to hear.

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Last recording is perfect, Quinn, keep posting like this every day, please!
Now next time, record yourself practicing the chord we learned in here and any updates as you go along.

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Hey Quinn, well done.

In future evaluations, try to use these words when you are talking:

Frets
Strings
Chords
Strumming
Barre chords

And if you can, please name the chords you're working on (for example A major, E major, etc)