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Music, Wednesday
“So we’re going to be trying to teach you a little bit of both theory and genre in this class,” Atton said. They were back in the Danger Shop, that large white plane with all the instruments in the corner. He stood in front of the blackboard, wearing an Opeth shirt this time, his arms crossed.
“Most of you probably know what the basic building blocks of music are. You’ve got the melody, which is a succession of sounds that forms kind of a sentence of sound, and the rhythm, which keeps the beat - one, two, three, four, that kind of thing. Oftentimes drums, but there’s a lot of ways to create rhythm. Leapfrogging off of that is the concept of harmony, which is the sound you get when you play multiple sounds at the same time. We tend to call that a ‘chord’ - for instance, hitting three piano keys at once.”
He eyed the class. “Any questions?” He didn’t think there would be, but see last class re: trying not to be a hardass.
“Sheet music is how music’s written down on Earth,” he continued. “It tries to capture both the melody and the rhythm." He pointed at the board, which had some musical notation written on it, and a couple of notes. “Those are the notes. How high up on the bar they are tells you what they’re supposed to sound like. Are they high notes, or low? The shape of the note tells you how long the note should be played - and thus informs the rhythm.”
"There are different keys that music uses," Lana said. "That is, a different relationship of notes that dictates the overall sound of a song, and often the mood. The simplest one is the one you see here." She waved at the board again. "One note per line and one per space, starting one line below what's called the staff. That's the key of C. The letters go from A to G and then start again. It's also the same as the white keys on a piano." She went over to one and played a scale.
"So, if I were going to play these notes, they'd look like this." She pointed to another section of the board, and then played it. It was 'Joy to the World'. "Which is a religious song from one of the holidays we've just passed. A lot of music on Earth is religious."
She pointed at the board again. "So this note is here." She played it on the piano. "The next one is here, and so forth. Today why don't we all try to figure out how the notes look on the instruments we've chosen? We can look up whatever we need it, and work it out together."
“Most of you probably know what the basic building blocks of music are. You’ve got the melody, which is a succession of sounds that forms kind of a sentence of sound, and the rhythm, which keeps the beat - one, two, three, four, that kind of thing. Oftentimes drums, but there’s a lot of ways to create rhythm. Leapfrogging off of that is the concept of harmony, which is the sound you get when you play multiple sounds at the same time. We tend to call that a ‘chord’ - for instance, hitting three piano keys at once.”
He eyed the class. “Any questions?” He didn’t think there would be, but see last class re: trying not to be a hardass.
“Sheet music is how music’s written down on Earth,” he continued. “It tries to capture both the melody and the rhythm." He pointed at the board, which had some musical notation written on it, and a couple of notes. “Those are the notes. How high up on the bar they are tells you what they’re supposed to sound like. Are they high notes, or low? The shape of the note tells you how long the note should be played - and thus informs the rhythm.”
"There are different keys that music uses," Lana said. "That is, a different relationship of notes that dictates the overall sound of a song, and often the mood. The simplest one is the one you see here." She waved at the board again. "One note per line and one per space, starting one line below what's called the staff. That's the key of C. The letters go from A to G and then start again. It's also the same as the white keys on a piano." She went over to one and played a scale.
"So, if I were going to play these notes, they'd look like this." She pointed to another section of the board, and then played it. It was 'Joy to the World'. "Which is a religious song from one of the holidays we've just passed. A lot of music on Earth is religious."
She pointed at the board again. "So this note is here." She played it on the piano. "The next one is here, and so forth. Today why don't we all try to figure out how the notes look on the instruments we've chosen? We can look up whatever we need it, and work it out together."
Re: Play 'Joy To The World'