Guitars and Drums.
I found this lesson the hardest so far. Let’s get some basics out of the way first :)
Guitars mostly have 6 strings made of either nylon or steel. This is not set in stone. Some guitars have 12 strings where there are 2 strings tuned to each note. Guitars can be played with a plectrum (pick) or with fingers. They can be strummed or plucked and they can be notated with TAB (one line for each string), treble clef or with chords. I personally love the sound of a guitar being plucked. It’s very musical.
A standard drum kit will consist of a snare drum, bass drum, 3 tom-tomes, hi-hats and 2 cymbals (ride and crash.. yes that’s what they’re called!). The ride cymbal is most often used in jazz music where the crash cymbol is most often used in rock/pop music. One can also use different sticks to create different effects on the drums e.g. brushes are used frequently in jazz music.
This week we had to write a rock beat. I found this incredibly difficult, as in I had no idea…. Then we had to write a 12 bar chord progression with a beat… I felt a bit better after that.
I think I got there in the end.
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