Basic Blues & Rock

Welcome to the Wikiversity Rock & Blues Garage, part of the School of Music and home of the Garage Band. Get ready to Rock!

Department description
Participants study the basic Blues patterns, the elements of Rock & Roll, Hard Rock, Headbanging, Jamming, Establishing a Groove, and other Garage Band traditions.

Department news

 * Friday 13 October 2006 - Department founded!
 * 02:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC) - Guitar lessons being recorded ... tune your IRC client to #wikiversity-en for details in real time.

Learning Projects
See: Learning Projects and the Learning model.

Portals
Portal:Music


 * Introduction to Music
 * Understanding music
 * Introduction to Chords
 * Beginners Music Theory
 * Key Signatures
 * Scales
 * Intervals
 * Aural Training

Learning materials and learning projects are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a link to the name of the learning project (learning projects are independent pages in the main namespace) and start writing!

We're going to be using learning project template, to build our new:


 * Portal:Music/Blues & Rock

Collaborations

 * Wikiversity the Movie/music - participants make the sound track, including original music, for Wikiversity the Movie.
 * Creating music with your PC - participants make music using their personal computer
 * Audio Engineering - we're going to try to build a repository of original audio files, through a new project...
 * Internet Audio and Video - Wikio - Wikiversity's Web radio station, where we may eventially be able to facilitate Jamming Online. (who knows?)
 * Getting started with sound recording - need to do this right away

Lessons
Remember, Wikiversity has adopted the "learning by doing" model for education. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. We learn by doing.


 * Blues basics
 * Rock basics
 * Blues & Rock instruments
 * Guitar tuning
 * Circle of fifths
 * add many!

Sessions
We're going to customize Learning project codes, by adding "sessions":


 * Portal:Music/Blues & Rock
 * Tuning up
 * 12-bar Blues Jam
 * Learn to Rock
 * Forming a Band

These will probably be made from templates of some sort that work through a Tablature system that we'll have to come up with. The current session will be in the section Garage below and on Topic talk:Basic Blues & Rock.

If everything goes according to plan, we should be able to produce actual audio files. See The Future: Native Firefox ogg Support and Internet Audio and Video.

Garage
Sweeping the garage... chill for a bit

Meanwhile, you can read Introduction to GarageBand

To do
Lots of things to do

See: Naming conventions

Chores
Wikiversity is really new and plenty of mundane chores need to be done:


 * A lot of things were imported from Wikibooks, and need to be refactored to work well here.
 * Portal:Music and Category:Music need a major sweep.
 * Wikiversity needs better representation at other w:Wikipedia:Sister projects and we could probably help with that. See Wikiversity outreach
 * add stuff here

Lists
We need a list of lists:


 * things to put in our new Category:Blues & Rock
 * things to include on Portal:Music/Blues & Rock.
 * articles for Category:Blues & Rock:


 * 1) genres
 * 2) instruments
 * 3) artists

We can draw on Wikipedia for most all of this but we need to decide what to include in the Wikiversity main namespace.

Active participants
Active participants in this Learning Group

The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. Please introduce yourself fully under a new section (use + and your username as a heading) at Topic talk:Basic Blues & Rock and enroll below.

Enrolled

 * 1) CQ • no subpage yet
 * 2) Ex Machina • no subpage yet
 * 3) Mirwin Music SubpageUser:Mirwin/musical_activities
 * 4) TheVividDream • no subpage yet
 * 5) Thierry613

User subpages
We're going to make this section a bit more accomodating to the Musician ego. We would like to ask participants to create a subpage to their userpage with a format that includes links to instrument you play (or want to learn) – Guitar, Bass, Drums, Saxophone, etc. Instrument articles should be in the main namespace. If not create one!

You should also indicate styles and influences: Beatles, Pink Floyd, Electronica, Delta Blues, etc. If you have your own website, you can of course list that, too, but see the next section.

If you are a member of a Music or related WikiProject at Wikipedia, you can show that also.

Once we come up with a format, we'll do a template like or something. Meanwhile just introduce yourself on the talk page.

Someday, we may form the Wikiversity Gargage Band!

Resources
These are mostly at Sister projects (under the Wikimedia Foundation umbrella). Wikiversity resources should be listed above this section.

Meta
Meta


 * Embed Media

Wikibooks
Wikibooks

These may be imported to Wikiversity later :


 * The Physics of Music
 * Triads
 * add other wikibooks here

Commons
Commons :


 * commons:Category:Music
 * commons:Category:Wikiversity music New!

Wikipedia
Wikipedia :


 * w:Portal:Music
 * w:Portal:Rock and Roll
 * w:Category:Tuning START HERE
 * w:Category:WikiProject Music
 * w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Music terminology
 * w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs

External resources
This section is not for linkspam! These should be links to relevant resources.

USE COMMON SENSE!: If and only if you are enrolled above, you may include a link to your site below preceded by three tildes. If your sight has innapropriate content, obnoxious advertising ploys, or other crap, its link will be removed!


 * Category:Music @ Wikia.com
 * Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
 * Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA) (for Techs)
 * TapeOp Magazine - Creative Music Recording Magazine Tape Op: Free in US and UK but... "Tape Op Magazine requires you to have a valid email address to maintain and renew a free subscription. If you do not have a valid email address, you can purchase a first class subscription"