Basic Blues & Rock
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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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
See: Learning Projects and the Wikiversity:Learning model.
Portals[edit | edit source]
- 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, ({{subst:Template:Learning project}}) to build our new:
Collaborations[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
Remember, Wikiversity has adopted the "learning by doing" model for education. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. We learn by doing.
Sessions[edit | edit source]
We're going to customize Learning project codes, by adding "sessions":
These will probably be made from templates of some sort that work through a w: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[edit | edit source]
Sweeping the garage... chill for a bit
Meanwhile, you can read Introduction to GarageBand
To do[edit | edit source]
Lots of things to do
See: Naming conventions
Chores[edit | edit source]
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:Wikiversity outreach
- add stuff here
Lists[edit | edit source]
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:
- genres
- instruments
- 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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
- CQ • no subpage yet
- Ex Machina • no subpage yet
- Mirwin Music SubpageUser:Mirwin/musical_activities
- TheVividDream • no subpage yet
- Thierry613
User subpages[edit | edit source]
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: w:Beatles, w:Pink Floyd, w:Electronica, w: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 {{MusicStudent}} or something. Meanwhile just introduce yourself on the talk page.
Someday, we may form the Wikiversity Gargage Band!
Resources[edit | edit source]
These are mostly at Wikiversity:Sister projects (under the Wikimedia Foundation umbrella). Wikiversity resources should be listed above this section.
Meta[edit | edit source]
- m:Embed Media
- ...
Wikibooks[edit | edit source]
These may be imported to Wikiversity later :
- The Physics of Music
- Triads
- add other wikibooks here
Commons[edit | edit source]
Commons :
Wikipedia[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
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"
- ...