Summary

• In this song it trying to portray a message of gratitude for what we have and take advantage of everyday.

Song Analysis

TOPIC	MY RESPONSES
SONG TITLE	May We All
COMPOSER(S)	Florida Georgia Line, Tim McGraw
YEAR	2016
COUNTRY	USA
If you could work on this song (change it), what would you change and why?	I wouldn’t change anything
What is the song GENRE?	This songs in the Country genre
What is the song KEY?	G major
What is the song TEMPO?	150
What do you like about the RHYTHM?	The rhythm is fluid and keeps a constant flow
What do you like about the ARRANGEMENT?	i like the arrangement it fits the song composition
What do you like about the MIX?	the mix sits well with the dialogue
What do you like about the TIMBRE of some or all of the instruments?	there all pretty distinguishable and obvious.
What do you like about the PITCH of some or all of the instruments or vocals?	they fit well with the rest of the song.
Are there particular TRACK(S) that stand out?	to me no
Finally, what do you like about the overall COMPOSITION?	i like it it fits the meaning and dialogue fluidly

“A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition and variation of sections.” wikipedia.org/wiki/Song

HookTheory for Learning About Song Structure

• Explore songs in https://www.hooktheory.com/trends
• Explore common chord progressions https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab/common-chord-progressions
• Explore beginner tabs https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab/difficulties/beginner

Holistic Songwriting’s Artist Analysis

• This YouTube series dives into the songwriting web.
• Marketing, Lighting, Music Videos, Image…

Mr. Le Duc’s Song Analysis Resources

• Diigo.com Song Analysis Links
• YouTube Song Analysis Playlist

“‘Be shapeless and formless.. like water’ (Bruce Lee)” by Akinini.com is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

“Have a mind like water.”

― David Allen,  GTD

SUMMARY

• I’ve learned how to open my mind more

PRACTICE ROOM (GUITAR LESSONS)

• The best advice Ive got from this is to calm down and take a second to overcome.

Watch Mary Spender: Powerful advice from 10 Professional Musicians you need to hear (14:15)

• Continue his 117 Free Lessons YouTube Playlist
• Check out his web site, justinguitar.com.
• The first 10 videos take less than an hour.

• Be curious about Justin.
• Mr. Le Duc considers him the best beginning guitar teacher online. He’s not the only one that thinks this.  Check out some of the celebrity endorsements at justinguitar.com.

How interested in learning more about playing the guitar?

Your score: 4

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Nothing really got my attention

Holistic Songwriting by Friedemann Findeisen

An Example: The Swift Formula – One Note Melodies

How interested in learning more about music theory and song analysis?

Your score: 2

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• Nothing really caught my attention but i was kinda interested

Explore the tutorials (but you do not need to watch all of them – just pick what looks interesting to you) from the:

• Songwriting Series. (4 videos)
• Lyrics to music videos (2 videos)

How interested in learning more about HookLab and HookTab?

Your score: 2

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend 15 minutes in this ‘room’

• Review this infographic for 5 minutes (Click for larger PDF version)
• If you want, read more at  bananatreelog.com/blog/daily-dose-of-happiness-chemicals

• i just open my mind and let go

How interested in learning more about music theory and song analysis?

Your score: 2

STUDIO (SONGWRITING)

• nothings really caught my attention.

Watch Holistic Songwriting: Do THIS with every song you write | Hit Song Architect S1E3

How interested in songwriting, song structure, and music production?

Your score: 3

CONTROL ROOM (RECORDING & MIXING)

Watch Clark Eagling: Soundtrap tutorial 5 – Arranging the song, Mixing and adding effects

Watch all five videos in the playlist, if you are interested.

How interested in recording, engineering (sound effects, EQ), and mixing?

Your score: 3

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• I’ve learned how to better open my mind

COPY AND PASTE ALL THE CONTENT BELOW

• TITLE THIS BLOG POST: Developing Quality Workflow
• IF YOU WANT, PLACE A CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGE  FROM SEARCH.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG
  • WATCH MR. LE DUC IMAGE PLACEMENT TUTORIAL
• REVIEW A BLOG POST EXAMPLE
  • Isaac’s Post
  • Meredith’s Post
  • Michael’s Post
  • Jamel’s Post
  • Naomi’s Post
  • Jason’s Post
  • Jacob’s Post
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s ALL UPPERCASE INSTRUCTIONS

What is Workflow?

Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/

“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com

What is a quality workflow?  How do we develop it?  Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something.  First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage.  Read on and find out!

INSTRUCTIONS

1. FILL IN THE QUESTIONS BELOW FR EACH STAGE OF PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
2. PUBLISH 

Stages of Creation Development

Inspiration

How do we find ideas to develop?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE? You should use whatever tools you feel necessary.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE? I use a creative process where i do some sort of action and see what i think of.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY? Quality can be measured in a couple different ways but the most important is how it feels to you.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY? Quality can be measured by anyone its just who feels wants it the most.

Intention

How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE? I use communication frequently.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE? A process that feels most comfortable.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY? By what you believe it to be.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY? Whoever decides to.

Pre-production

How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE? By using something you can see in front of you everyday.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE? a step by step process.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY? by how you feel it sits.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY? whoever pleases.

Production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE? whatever is necessary to use and complete the project.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE? have others give your product a once-over and see what they can critique about it.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY? By how i fee it sits.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY? whoever may please.

Post-production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our final stages of the project for this phase? This is where we publish the project.

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE? Whatever we feel necessary.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE? Having everyone look over the project and determining that everything fits.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY? By how i feel the situation is.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY? Whoever wants to.

Presentation/Performance

How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE? The tools provided.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE? Get things done by this point.
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY? By how i feel about a subject.
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY? whoever feels necessary.

Feedback

How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?

• WHAT TOOLS SHOULD WE USE? By properly analyzing whatever work was turned in.
• WHAT PROCESS SHOULD WE USE? Whatever one works
• HOW DO YOU MEASURE QUALITY? However i want
• WHO MEASURES QUALITY? bosses

School of Rock – Week 13 – Changes

COPY AND PASTE ALL THE CONTENT BELOW

• TITLE THIS BLOG POST: School of Rock – Week 13 – Changes
• IF YOU WANT, PLACE A CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGE  FROM SEARCH.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG AT THE TOP OF THE POST
  • WATCH MR. LE DUC IMAGE PLACEMENT TUTORIAL
• REVIEW THESE BLOG POST EXAMPLES:
  • Jaden’s Post
  • Tristan’s Post
  • Brenna’s Post
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s ALL UPPERCASE INSTRUCTIONS

“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” –  Leonard Bernstein

SUMMARY

• Ive learned sort of interesting things and have learned how to properly strum/tune my guitar.

PRACTICE ROOM (GUITAR LESSONS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes in the ‘room’

Chose from the following…

• Watch Paul Davids: 8 Things I regret not doing when learning guitar (10:00)
• Watch Essential Hand Stretches For Guitarists or Any Instrumentalist
• Embed a YouTube video or link to what you watched (Just one is fine)

• Continue his 117 Free Lessons YouTube Playlist
• Write how far did you got in lessons this week

How interested in learning more about playing the guitar?

Your score: 4

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Nothing really stood out to me to be honest.

How interested in learning more about music theory and song analysis?

Your score: 2

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• To be honest this doesn’t really interest me

How interested in learning more about HookLab and HookTab?

Your score: 2

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend 30 minutes in this ‘room’

• Review the Challenging Automatic Negative Thoughts Worksheet infographic for 10 minutes (Click for larger PDF version)
  • If you want, read more at bananatreelog.com/blog/challenging-cognitive-distortions
• Then review these ‘6 steps will help in reframing negative thoughts and over time your thoughts will be replaced with more rational thinking.’
  1. Recognize and Isolate the Thought
  2. Write Down the Thought
  3. Identify the Distress Level
  4. Identify the Cognitive Distortion (view PDF)
     • Worksheet from bananatreelog.com
  5. Challenge & Reframe Your Thoughts
  6. Reevaluate the Distress Level

• Whenever i go for a walk i just clear my head of all thoughts and enjoy the beauty around me so i can just soak in the environment.

How interested in learning more about music theory and song analysis?

Your score: 5

STUDIO (SONGWRITING)

• Songwriting is something i may be interested in for the future but right now not so much

How interested in songwriting, song structure, and music production?

Your score: 3

CONTROL ROOM (RECORDING & MIXING)

• Mixing is something i’d be interested in whenever i start songwriting but till them i’m gonna learn the guitar.

How interested in recording, engineering (sound effects, EQ), and mixing?

Your score: 3

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• i’ve learned how to properly do somethings on the guitar.

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

• Give feedback on this week’s class Content and Process
  • Fill in the Weekly Activity Evaluation
• DELETE THIS WHOLE SECTION, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

School of Rock – Week 14 – Intro to Analysis

“Day 94 – music analysis on a road trip #100daysofdatasketches #the100dayproject” by Kelly-Ann’s Pics! is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

“Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!”
― Ray Harmony, Hack Music Theory, Part 1: Learn Scales & Chords in 30 minutes

SUMMARY

• Write your weekly summary here, last, at the end of the week…
  • Only one to two sentences of WHAT YOU DID
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend 15 minutes in this ‘room’

• Review the How to Practice Self-Care During COVID-19 infographic for 5 minutes (Click for larger PDF version)

• Go for a 10-minute walk, if it is safe to do so 
  • Reflect on how ‘This guide can give you some tips to remain calm and practice self-care to maintain your mental health.‘
• Writing a small paragraph reflection for 10 minutes
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

CONCERT

• Listen to a song of your choice, for the analysis blog post this week

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• Write only a few sentences of WHAT YOU LEARNED
• In one or two sentences, describe a PROBLEM YOU SOLVED
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

• Give feedback on this week’s class Content and Process
  • Fill in the Weekly Activity Evaluation
• DELETE THIS WHOLE SECTION, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

TOPIC	YOUR NOTES
SONG TITLE:	Country Boy
COMPOSER(S):	Aaron Lewis
YEAR:	Dec 7, 2010
COUNTRY:	USA
What is the song GENRE?	Country
What is the song KEY?	F #
What is the song TEMPO?	122
What do you like about the RHYTHM?	its calm and heartfelt
What do you like about the ARRANGEMENT?	that the whole song sits together fluidly
What do you like about the MIX?	theres a good mix of guitar to vocals
What do you like about the TIMBRE of some or all of the instruments?	that each instrument is specific and vibrant
What do you like about the PITCH of some or all of the instruments or vocals?	the pitch is a nice fitting one for the song with the words said.
Are there particular TRACK(S) that stand out?	Negative
Finally, what do you like about the overall COMPOSITION?	it fits fluidly and have a nice flow throughout the whole song.

“A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition and variation of sections.” wikipedia.org/wiki/Song

HookTheory for Learning About Song Structure

• Explore songs in https://www.hooktheory.com/trends
• Explore common chord progressions https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab/common-chord-progressions
• Explore beginner tabs https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab/difficulties/beginner

Teens are overwhelmed, partly because they don’t yet have the skills to manage the unprecedented amount of stuff that enters their brains each day.  – from LifeHacker.com

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

― David Allen, (GTD) Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World

SUMMARY

• Write your weekly summary here, last, at the end of the week…
  • Only one to two sentences of WHAT YOU DID
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• I’ve learned how to place my fingers in the right position to play the right chord.

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

You are going to learn to develop your own version of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) process in this ‘room.’

• there are certain advantages that come from having a list that you keep handy everyday such as possibly remembering something you need to do at the last minute

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• Set a timer
• Spend 15 minutes in this ‘room’
• Rewatch David explain ‘Maps’ from 19:57 to 21:16 of the video

Examine Two GTD Maps: Basic and Detailed

1. Detailed map by guccio@文房具社 icensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
2. Basic map from BiggerPlate.com embedded below

GTD-based Trusted System

• Examine and pick a trusted system from the 4 options listed below to ‘capture’ your work
  • A trusted system is your method for managing your tasks in a way that you consistently get things done

1. Trello.com with a – GTD Template
   • We use Trello in this class to manage group projects
     • You will create a Trello account a few weeks from now regardless
     • You might want to start now
   • We start using Trello in the second semester
   • Watch Mr. Le Duc Creating a Trello Account and Add GTD Template Tutorial (3:45)
   • You can get the free Trello app at the Apple Store or Google Play
   • 
2. Your phone
3. Paper and pen or pencil
4. Examine LifeHacker.com’s GTD Resources
   • Try a To-Do List That Lives in Your Tabs

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• walk was great

OPTIONAL EXERCISE

• Read Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World by David Allen

STUDIO (CREATING MAPS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes
• Then watch David Allen summarize the steps
  • “Very simple folks! …
    1. Just WRITE STUFF DOWN
    2. Decide the ACTIONS and OUTCOMES embedded in them
    3. Get yourself a MAP OF ALL THAT so you can step back and take a look at it.
    4. And then, basically, you USE THE MAP TO DECIDE, “OK, here’s the course that we’re going to go on.”
    5. You then LAUNCH the ‘ship’ on a trusted course in the short term, as well as on the long horizon that you’re moving on.
    6. And then, on a regular basis, you need to REASSESS, “OK, we need to take in NEW DATA, CLEANUP, RECALIBRATE, and REFOCUS for the next leg of the journey.”
  • It’s that simple…”
• ‘Capture’ all the ACTION ITEMS you can in your GTD Trusted System

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• ive learned that sometimes its better to have a guide the to go off of free memory

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

• Give feedback on this week’s class Content and Process
  • Fill in the Weekly Activity Evaluation
• DELETE THIS WHOLE SECTION, AFTER YOU ARE DONE