User:Rileykey

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

Write a song on guitar preferably a blues style song
 * Research Component

I will research guitar history as well as the history and theory of the blues guitar style.
 * week 1

Begin song writing
 * week 2

Continue song writing/ revising and perfecting progress on song
 * week 3

Continue song writing/ perfecting
 * week 4

Start research as well as finishing up song and perfecting
 * week 5

Practice/ clean up song, continue research
 * week 6

practice/ continue research
 * week 7

practice/ create presentation materials and prep for presentation
 * week 8

practice/ finnish up presentation materials, present

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
The art piece is named Typewriter Eraser, Scale X by Claes Oldenburg and Cossje Van Bruggen. I did not like this piece because it seems so out of place compared to all of the other pieces. I did not even know what it was at first, goes to show how technology has advanced I am sure I would have known what it was if computers did not exist. It looks like an oversized makeup tool that is rolling super fast into the street! After researching the artists a little bit I learned that Claes is known for making very large sculptures of widely used things such as: a large scale lipstick on caterpillar tracks, a large clothes pin, a screw, a huge spoon with a cherry on it, a baseball bat, a large pick axe, and many more. Claes also went to The Art Institute Of Chicago; I thought that was pretty cool. Cossje got a masters degree in art history from the University of Groningen, then later joined up with Claes and moved to New York with him. Claes was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1929 and Cossje was born in Groningen, Netherlands in 1942 and she died this year. (seattleartmusium.org) When I figured out what the Typewriter Eraser sculpture was I decided that I liked it a little more, but I still feel that it is out of place. I do like their other work though because they turned widely used objects into meaningful public art for everyone to view. My favorite piece is the giant stamp that says “free” on it.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation

 * DUBIOUS AUTHORITY:
 * 1) The gecko talking about car insurance for the Gieco insurance company
 * 2) Smoky the bear talking about preventing forest fires.
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GJlP6yPC0w&feature=PlayList&p=9C313A025D852309&index=0


 * ALLNESS:
 * 1) All cows love becoming food for humans!
 * 2) No one thinks before they speak.
 * http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/102208/everyone-likes-cats.gif

Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report (100 words or so)
> I have started writing the song on my guitar but have not made much progress on researching much about it. What i plan to do is begin vigorously researching and writing starting next week and i am sure that i will be able to produce a quality product. My research will begin this coming week, i will be able to complete this i am sure. I will most likely be paying a visit to the Experience Music Project in the near future, i hear they have a spectacular guitar section. Following the researching will be intensive song writing sessions! I currently have a bunch of pieces of a song that i am trying to put together, it should all work out awesomely.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

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 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site: T-Bone Walker first to amplify blues and bring it to a group style/ more sophisticated sounding. Charlie Christian was the first guitar player to make it clear that guitar was in fact not just a rhythm keeping back up instrument but in fact a lead instrument.

http://guitar.about.com/od/education/a/history_guitar.htm BLUES! In the 20's and 30's the slide was brought to the plate. Most blues back then was rarely ever played the same way twice, pretty much all improv. In the 40's blues started becoming a lot more organized and is thought to be the influence of modern day rock and roll and rhythm. After the electric guitar was invented, right around the end of world war 2 the Mississippi style blues was born (harmonica) witch later moved up to Chicago. B.B. King and Freddie King were also gaining popularity at the time because of their unique style of playing. during the 60's blues started to gain a lot more popularity inspiring people such as Janis, Jimi, and, Johnny Winter. http://www.bluesforpeace.com/blues-guitar-history.htm Guitars used to be strung with gut strings as oposed to metal! http://www.yeoldeguitar.com/history.html

JIMI- http://api.ning.com/files/8Rn-WjtUWcU2GSbUmwl7FrdPT5pNtV3Yhz*wrB1rVof0vi5iaGhq0AU-03owvODFKnAz3t51Jxc22lBi8u7JB8DlTDkznczr/Jimi_Hendrix_Wallpaper_1_by_JohnnySlowhand.jpg

B.B. King- http://midiblog.net/pics/b/b/-/bb-king-3-high.jpg

Eric Clapton- http://www.pit-schmidt.de/eric_clapton/covers/eric_clapton.jpg

Freddie King- http://www.bobtjeblues.com/files/images/Freddie-King.jpg


 * 2) Book:
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc): It is unknown where the guitar originated but it is thought to have come from ancient Egypt, Greece, or maybe even Central Asia. The frying pan guitar.  The first electric guitars were known as the frying pan guitar.

Experience Music Project


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

<> I came very close and if not that i did reach my goal, i did compose several pieces to a song and put them together. But it is not as complete as i wanted it to be.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)Coming up with the idea and planning out what i was going to do to attain the goal went very well, and partly writing the song.
 * 2)I procrastinated a little bit too much on this project that was the biggest problem. I also had trouble following my planned out schedule
 * 3)Get started sooner (do not procrastinate), get more motivated, work on not getting distracted so much.

Self-Assessment
I could have done a lot better if i did not procrastinate as much as i did. But i still feel that i did a pretty good job all together.