- PianoChord C image from Wikimedia Commons
Goal
- Convey knowledge and understanding of musical triads.
Musical Terms
- Triad
- Root note
- Third note
- Fifth note
- Theme
- Motive
- Period
- Phrase
- Antecedent (Question or First) Phrase
- Consequent (Answer or Second) Phrase
- Scale Degrees:Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, and Submediant, and Dominant, Subdominant, and Leading Tone
- Steps
- Leaps
- Conjunct motion
- Disjunct motion
- Repetition
- Contrast
- Variation
Product
- Create a blog post with embedded media from SoundCloud and Flickr of your composition
- Copy and paste the Making Motives Blog Post TEMPLATE
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
- Copy and paste the Making Motives Blog Post TEMPLATE
- Listen to 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
- A great example of a simple, yet profound motif and its 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 a 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
- Embed your motif/riff into the blog post under the My Motives 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
- Mr. Le Duc Making Motives Blog Post TEMPLATE
- 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
- Le Duc Video Tutorial
- Guitar Triad Videos
- The Game-Changing Guitar Triads Lesson I Wish I Knew Earlier by Sean Daniel
- 5 WAYS THE PROS USE TRIADS (that everyone should know!) by Paul Davids
- How to (Easily) Play Triad Chords on Guitar by JustinGuitar
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