Guitar

Tupper Music is going to SEATTLE! May 7, 2014

Want to come? Total cost: $100

Deposits of $50 dollars are due January 17. Final payment of $50 is due on March 3. Any fundraising account money will go towards this amount.

If you do not hold a Canadian Passport, you’ll have to sort out a US Visa. Start your paperwork NOW, before January.

- transportation via 1-56 passenger motorcoach for a maximum of 12 hours of service including parking and road toll fees - self guided visit of the Experience Music Project Museum - group lunch at the Hard Rock Café, or similar - time to explore the Pike Place Market - guided Underground Seattle Tour
 * COST INCLUDES: **

Estimated times: 7am to 7pm.

= = Guitar Festival Field Trip **Thursday February 13, 2014 7:15 am to 4:30 pm ** **Cost: 25 dollars ** We are going out to Langley to attend the Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival. Info: [] The address of the University is 20901 Langley Bypass, Langley BC. We will all travel together in a big yellow school bus.

You MUST bring a bag lunch. There is no good way to buy food at Kwantlen during our short lunch time.

The drive to Kwantlen is long. We must GET ON the bus by 7:15 am. Arrive at Tupper by 7:00 am for attendance.

We will see students from other schools perform, attend workshops with professional guitarists, and attend a concert by a world-class guitarist.

The cost for the festival and for the bus together is 30 dollars. If you have any financial problems, talk to Mrs. Baron privately.

=Basic Music Theory= Learn the basics of reading music here: http://www.musictheory.net/

Practice reading rhythms with this website: []

=Beginning Guitar Songs= [|The Lion Sleeps Tonight] [|Blowing in the Wind] =**Listening List**=

"Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana

[|"About a Girl" - Nirvana]

[|"Another Brick in the Wall" - Pink Floyd]

"Is There Anybody Out There?" - Pink Floyd

[|"The House of the Rising Sun" - The Animals]

"American Idiot" - Green Day

Redemption Song - Bob Marley [|Redemption Song - Joe Strummer]

The Eye of the Tiger

[|Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson]

=As discussed in class= Symphonie Fantastique (1837) 4th Movement "The March To the Scaffold" Here's a neat article featuring some trippy album covers for Sypmohine Fantastique.

Read the Wikipedia article about the Hammond B3 organ to see what I'm ranting and raving about.

The 50 Greatest Campfire Songs of all time.