Use the guitar lesson plans above as your main lesson materials then use the worksheets to reinforce the topic. Understanding basic music theory open textbooks for hong kong. Now, pick up your guitar, and hold it so the back of the. These exercises will help you explore interesting ways of playing the guitar and challenge your fingers without getting into too many strict rules. Different views about the use of the atomic bomb for students 8th 10th read both points of view regarding the use of the atomic bomb during wwii. Jun 18, 2016 these exercises will help you explore interesting ways of playing the guitar and challenge your fingers without getting into too many strict rules. Electric counterpoint is a minimalist composition written by american composer steve reich. For more in depth discussion about counterpoint, see my free online counterpoint book, at.
You will be writing mostly quarternotes in thirdspecies. In thirdspecies counterpoint, you will write four notes for every note in the cantus firmus, except for last note. If you need any more, jeppesens book, counterpoint. This quizworksheet combo will test your knowledge of counterpoint in music.
I believe this is the best, the most useful counterpoint book a composer can read, written by a prominent selftaught composer. It includes a comprehensive set of blank staves associated with each of the six cantus rmi that aloysius, the master teacher, o ers young josephus. The treble clef for high range notes the bass clef for low range notes the alto clef for middle range notes the treble clef also called the g clef because it. To learn reading the chords of a guitar, one must have the basic knowledge on what a chord is and how is it produced. Finally, we would recommend that any counterpoint exercise, from the simplest to the most elaborate, be discussed as a real composition, with a beginning, a development, and an end. Counterpoint is the technique of writing independent melodic lines that work together to create effective music. Adding harmony and counterpoint to the main riff the beginning of the main riff is first harmonized in diatonic thirds by the second guitar. Here is an overview of what the lessons in the book cover. This video is a practical take on what counterpoint could be in jazz and how you might use it to make more layers in your ii v i comping or.
Learning counterpoint on your own art of composing. Learn how to play the ventures songs for electric guitar, bass and drums online. Counterpoint is the mediation of two or more musical lines into a meaningful and pleasing whole. Counterpoint is one of my favorite tools for composing, arranging, and improvising. In firstspecies counterpoint, we not only write a smooth melody that has its own integrity of shape, variety, and goaldirected motion, but we also write a second melody that contains these traits. Teenagers, feelings and emotions, music, esl songs for teaching english. Youngblood was one of the biggest hits of summer 2018. Intermediate music theory advanced music theory this document this has been done for two reasons. This is a workbook, and therefore contains very little explanation. Counterpoint jazz guitar discover new harmonic ideas. Put these ideas to work in your own writing and youll improve in ways you never though possible. Music notation and theory for intelligent beginners. For example, suppose a song in which there is a series of threenote chords being played.
It is an extremely valuable skill for a musician to study historical evidence shows that haydn, mozart, and beethoven all. During the 1970s and early 80s, phillips was director of popular music at warner bros. The ventures counterpoint electric guitar, bass and. The piece consists of three movements, fast, slow, and. Composer arnold schoenberg wrote a textbook see reference at page bottom to teach the fundamentals of tonal counterpoint. In a sense, the clef calibrates or orients the staff to specific notes.
Each note of each chord is regarded as its own voice. Counterpoint for guitar counterpoint in two voices counterpoint. Mar 07, 2012 now, for counterpoint, i would strongly suggest preliminary exercises in counterpoint by arnold schoenberg, which you can either download in pdf for free, or make a secondhand purchase it is now out of print. Fugue latin fuga to fly a fugue is a contrapuntal elaboration of a given motive called the subject. Summary of rules for species counterpointsummary of rules for. This document was created with prince, a great way of getting web content onto paper. Schoenbergs cantus firmi are strange, being so obviously derived from common practice music principles. Voice leading is regarding all the notes present in a piece of music as part of a melodic thread. Learning to play the guitar an absolute beginners guide. It also has a short gapfill reading exercise with inf. I dont think tabs would be very helpful fo this piece. Thats not to say necessarily that you must ace collegelevel theory classes. Learning guitar and becoming a good musician is, in many respects, tied to your knowledge of music theory. Guitar crossword answers parts of the guitar crossword.
In this lesson, well walk through some very basic counterpoint ideas before turning to more musicaland funexamples. Baroque chord progressions contrapuntal style, part 2. Using both lesson materials together is a great way to teach guitar. The material covered by the different topics is of varying levels of complexity and targets different audiences. Does anyone have the complete sheet music for the lead part. Sometimes there can be more than one subject see double fugue below, but one subject at a time is the most common situation. Ledger lines are the five lines that are behind the treble clef and 44 time signature. As the song moves from chord to chord, the top note highest in pitch of each chord is regarded as an entity called a melodic thread in its own right. Counterpoint is the basis of classical music theory, growing out of the early sacred music traditions of the catholic church into the common practice for composers of the 15th through 18th. Guitar activities, worksheets, printables, and lesson plans. Species counterpoint exercises from fuxs gradus ad parnassum.
Areas of specific focus include musicians related to the topic and the rules of counterpoint. Another former wyble studentturnededucator sid jacobs has an excellent counterpoint video pdf lesson available for download at mikes masterclasses online. This linear perspective has influenced some of the most popular songs and artists in the 20th century, including the music of the beatles, beach boys, pink floyd, david bowie, and many other contemporary artistseven in the. Frans absil music schoenberg counterpoint examples. Counterpoint is a broad term for interacting yet independent voices. Taught by mike keneally in keneally retrospective series length. Four counterpoint exercises for guitar pdf of music tab duration. I wrote this worksheet to practice vocabulary related to feelings and relationships. Long ago, before the rise of the modern rock band and popular music, composers tried to enrich their music by writing polyphonic music written by stitching together two or more contrasting melodies.
The size of one single file was too large for download 2. The model of counterpoint improvisation and the methods of. To improve and maintain your guitar skills regular practice is essential so. Introduction a chord is a set of tones producing a melody and is played on a guitar. Worlds only complete guitar chord chart, all guitar chords on a single guitar chord poster. The guitarists guide to counterpoint premier guitar. Holding the guitar i usually play my guitar while standing up, but youll probably want to sit down while you are learning to play. Guitar, recording sheet music book by steve reich 1936. Learning to play the guitar an absolute beginners guide by. Understanding basic music theory open textbooks for hong. However, if you want to dive further into species counterpoint, i recommend reading counterpoint.
Summary of rules for species counterpointsummary of rules. Out of curiosity, is there a reason why youre looking into. Keneally teaches the verse to his song dee n a and illustrates how you can play a constant bass line at the same time while playing counterpoint melodies and rhythms. Class notes for counterpoint carnegie mellon university. Look at the diagram to find out how the frets are numbered. Publications, where he edited and arranged the songbooks of.
Similar to the first guitar track, the second guitar plays contrupuntal lines derived from the hybrid phrygian minor blues scale. Counterpoint for guitar by dusan bogdanovic 1955 full. Electric counterpoint by steve reich 1936 full score. But youve at least got to learn and become comfortable with the theoretical concepts of your. You will also learn how to hold the guitar, finger numbers, how to hold a guitar pick and practice with picking exercises.
Print and download counterpoint sheet music in pdf. In addition, classical guitar compositions feature lots of counterpoint, such as contrary motion, in which lines move in opposite directions figure 17b. Worksheets are different to the guitar lesson plans above as they are focused on a specific topic and dont include explanations. Start with the cantus firmus melodic aspects, and add the counterpoint voices species, treatment of nonharmonic tones, melodic formulas, voice leading aspects. To download and save a document locally onto your computer, click download original. In the book schoenberg presents and discusses the rules for writing classical, tonal counterpoint. Species counterpoint exercises from fuxs gradus ad.
Since the earliest forms of polyphony, musical textures have been made up of multiple lines of music or voices that combine to form vertical sonorities. Use the links below to view companion worksheets and handouts. Baroque counterpoint 2 voices yielding 3 via ties download. Composing a firstspecies counterpoint open music theory. Martin taylor demonstrates how to achieve counterpoint with fingerstyle guitar duration.
His video looks at some jazz standards, wyble concepts, bill evans harmony, and bachs lute music, among other things. Studying counterpoint teaches us how to recognize and understand those lines. Baroque counterpoint application of 1to1 counterpoint. Introduction to guitar for ensemble worksheets and handouts. Reich electric counterpoint pdf steve reich electric counterpoint iii. Worksheets live and teach guitar resources for guitar. Baroque counterpoint 2 voices yielding 3 via ties download pdf. In other words, 6th string low e, 5th string a, 4th d, 3rd g, 2nd b, 1st high e.
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