Final Task: Analysis

I choose guitar for my topic and "How can I learn to play and teach others a simple song on the guitar" is my essential question. I choose this topic because I think that this unit will be fun if I choose the topic that related to music. And I choose that essential question because in my task, I have to play a simple song and teach how to play it.

There are 3 part of bloom's taxonomy that we already done, knowledge, comprehension, and application. There are some task in each level. On knowledge part, I have to researching about the to do list that I write in the Google docs, it was researching about the basic notes, and also the most successful guitar player, I also included some images. On comprehension part, it was also research, and my first task is to "Describe how to become a better guitar player", second task is to "Explain why guitar player are good at playing guitar", third task is to "Compare the good guitar player and the bad guitar player". And on application part, I included a video that I made, I record myself when I'm playing guitar, I played a simple song, show the each notes that I found on knowledge part and also where the fingers go in each cord.

Now, I will answer the essential question that I choose, which is "How can I learn to play and teach others a simple song on the guitar". This question is to teach others how to play a simple son on the guitar. Firstly, when you are going to play a song, you should know how to play the notes, secondly, choose a easy song to play, thirdly, play the notes one by one, and it will be easier to play a song on the guitar.

Unit of Inquiry, week 1: Knowledge

In ESL class, we can choose any topic that we want and the teacher will help us. My topic is Guitar, and my essential question is "How can I learn to play and teach others a simple song on the guitar". Some of my task have to list the basic cords with pictures, list the most successful guitar player, describe where the fingers go in each cord and also describe why the people like to listen to guitar music.

This is the thing I do on the knowledge part this week:

In each cords we only use fore finger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger to press the strings on playing guitar.

1. C notes

2. D notes

3. E notes

 

4. F notes

5. G notes

 

These are the basic cords, the first is C notes, second is D notes, third is E notes, forth is F notes, fifth is G notes. We put fore finger in number 1, middle finger in number 2, ring finger in number 3, little finger in number 4.

Many people like to listening guitar music, because it's a classic song, so it can give beautiful rhythm and also the rhythm can make some good songs.

Top ten most successful guitar players: 

10. Tom Morello

9. John Mayer

8. Jack White

7. Jimmy Page 

6. BB King

5. David Gilmour 

4. John Frusciante 

3. Stevie Ray Vaughan 

2. Jimi Hendrix 

1. Robert Johnson 



This the the pictures of the cord chart on guitar: