Goal
- Convey knowledge and understanding of musical triads.
Musical Terms
- Triad
- Root note
- Third note
- Fifth note
Product
- Create a blog post with embedded media from SoundCloud and Flickr of your composition
Examples
- Joe’s post
- Abby’s post
- Ben’s post
- Chance’s post
- Cassy’s post
- Beau’s blog post
- Jared’s blog post
- Mikayla’s blog post
- Riley’s blog post
- Tyler’s blog post
- Chandler’s blog post
- Mayah’s blog post – with screencast explanation (GarageBand Version)
- Phoenix’s blog post
Tutorial
Steps
- Play Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (Live)
- Listen for the motif on the guitar starting at 1:50 minute mark
- Guitar Tabs
- Explore motifs from HookTheory.com
- Explore free MIDI files midiworld.com/files/
- Pick a MIDI and music notation editors
- onlinesequencer.net – online
- It is only a MIDI editor with notation but a good place to start
- You can export the file as a MIDI file and import in one of the programs below
- flat.io – online
- noteflight.com – online
- MuseScore downloadable program
- onlinesequencer.net – online
- Listen to Beethoven 5th’s example from Howard Goodall’s Story of Music at 28:17 minute mark
- Great example of a simple, yet profound motif and it’s development
- Compose a riff / hook / motif / triad
- Include the notes C, E, and G, the notes of the C major chord
- Create a motif that has rhythm or movement to it
- Stay within the same octave, example: only use C3, G3, E3 notes
- Embed the motif from onlinesequencer.net or Flat.io
- Flat.io Tutorial: https://blog.flat.io/embed-your-music-scores-in-your-blog/
- Export as an WAV or MP3 file
- Upload to SoundCloud.com
- Flat.io Tutorial: https://blog.flat.io/embed-your-music-scores-in-your-blog/
- Take a screenshot of the music notation from onlinesequencer.net
- Upload the notation screenshot to Flickr
- Create a blog post titled, Motif Making with A Triad
- Create the headings:
- Summary
- My Motif
- What I Learned
- Create the headings:
- Embed your motif/riff into the blog post under the My Motif heading
- Embed the notation screenshot into the blog post under the My Motif heading
- Explain in your blog post how you composed your motif / riff / hook
- Remember you are writing for an audience that was not in the class, so explain what the project was and what you did for it
Tools
- MIDI and Music Notation Editors
- onlinesequencer.net – online
- flat.io – online
- noteflight.com – online
- MuseScore downloadable program
- GarageBand
- SoundCloud
- Flickr
Resources
- Composition
- MIDI and Music Notation Editors
- onlinesequencer.net – online
- flat.io – online music notation and composition
- noteflight.com – online
- MuseScore downloadable program
- Song Building Blocks – Song Stuff
- MIDI and Music Notation Editors
- Music Theory
- Triads explained – Wikipedia
- Chord – Wikipedia
- Chromatic scale – Wikipedia
- C major scale – music-mind.com/Music/
- Pitch Class – Wikipedia
- Triad Arpeggios image of guitar neck – danbecker.info/guitars/
- Understanding: How to Build Chords (Major, Minor, Dim, Aug) – patdavidmusic
- Understanding: How To Understand And Create Major Scales – patdavidmusic
- Understanding: Understanding Key Signatures – patdavidmusic
- Listen to Beethoven 5th’s example from Howard Goodall’s Story of Music at 28:17 minute mark
- Video Tutorial