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.

Level 3: Application

I made a video about:

1.) The basic cords and how to play them

2.) The song that you are going to learn to play
3.) How you learned to play that song (this will include shots or video of you practicing)
4.) Teaching other people how to play that song as well
5.) What was easy and difficult about playing that song and why

In this video, I show the basic cords that I found, where the fingers go in each cords, and play a basic songs which is called twinkle twinkle little star. I also tell how I learned to play this song and what was easy and difficult about playing this song. PLEASE ENJOY THE MOVIE.

The Next Level: Comprehension

Describe how to become a better guitar player.
1. The basics of playing guitar are important if I want to build a solid foundation. Some must knows:
- Name of the strings, from top to bottom, the guitar strings correspond to the notes E, A, D, G, B and E.
- Tuning: even if you're playing the right notes, you can sound terrible if your strings are not tuned correctly.
- Chords: some easy chords to begin with are G, A, D and E minor. Try these chords out and practice until you're comfortable with the fingering.
- Rhythm: this is an important component of playing music, trying practicing with a metronome if you're having trouble with rhythm and beats.

2. Practice. This is one of the unavoidable truths about music: you have to practice to get better. Practice - and not "talent" - is the key to success.

*U can watch this LINK to learn more about playing guitar.*


Explain why guitar player are good at playing guitar.
Because they are always focus and serious to learn and practice playing guitar regularly until they have good skill at playing guitar. They also always improve their skills such as; their technics and style by creating something new and they always have ideas that can make many people or other players impressed and like their play.

Compare the good guitar player and the bad guitar player.
The good guitar player usually has good skill and they also practice harder and harder to improve their skill. We can see it when the player playing cords, moving from one cord to the other cord so well and it gives good tune or sound. While the bad guitar player, maybe because they always play the cords incorrectly and they also lazy to practice, for example: they doesn't put their fingers on the right cords so that will gives bad tune or sound.

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: