James Haye's Third Blog Entry

Hello, it’s me again and today I will be talking about what I did over the week, in terms of Music Work. On the 9^th of December I altered my time table to try and make it more sufficient to and easier to use. I decide to create a colour coded table. It works like this: The entire timetable is in Red. The colour red is intended for when the task is incomplete. So when the objective that I set for myself is complete, then I fill the block in the colour Blue. This colour will obviously be for complete work. And that’s how my colour coded time table works. I haven’t missed a single task so far. So it seems to be working.

On the 10^th of December I searched for a new song to play on my guitar. The song I wanted to play was the “Lazy Song” by Bruno Mars. So I went on Google search and typed in Lazy song by Bruno Mars Guitar tabs, and I choose one that I thought was easy to play. This is the URL if you want to have a go yourself. http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/bruno_mars/the_lazy_song_ver6_crd_1049970id_26042011date.htm. In addition to this, I also practised for one hour this week and played with another musician during that time. I believe the expression is that we “Jammed” and in English this means that we played together for a long period amount of time, not really undertaking a performance just practicing as one and learning off each other. And I know for sure that that experience has slightly improved my practising and listening skills.

On the 11^th of December I continued to read The AB Guide to Music Theory book. I found the second chapter as simulating as the first one. While writing the book Eric Taylor, the author of the book intended to help people learn and understand how music is written down and what various signs and symbols mean. I took notes as usual, and this is what I learnt in the second chapter. The second chapter is all about the introduction to Pitch. Part one is on pitch names and notation. The C note is centre of the keyboard. The five lines on a music sheet are called the stave or staff. From the top it goes fifth line, fourth line, third line, second line and first line. Then the spaces are called fourth space, third space, second space and first space. Each line and each space represents a note, so there are nine notes in total. A sign called the clef is always placed the beginning of every stave. The second part of the chapter is about Major Scale, the third part is on Key Signatures and the fourth and finally part is information on the topic Accidentals. I really recommend that you read the book for yourself. If it can increase my knowledge the it can do the same for you. See you in my Fourth Blog Entry.