8th Grade General Music

You finally made it to 8th grade....

 

You finally get to study nothing but Rock-n-Roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

click below for an outline of the next 10 weeks.

 

 

Rock Hall of Fame classroom work:

http://www.rockhall.com/education/distance-learning/digital-classroom-1950s/

 

For 12-bar blues Assignment:

 

http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom/essays12bar.html

http://www.studybass.com/lessons/blues-bass/the-12-bar-blues-form/

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/examining-the-12bar-blues-pattern.html

http://www.pianolessons.com/piano-lessons/12-bar-blues.php  -  use this as you hand out sheet/staff paper and have already gone over the blues scale and the 3 chords!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoNL2aFEySs   -  BB King lesson – 8 bar blues

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtMdTaISq_w  -n PBS – Eric Clapton – Nothin but the blues concert series!!!!

 

 

 

For Final Project (in a pinch worksheet...):

Helpful websites for 8^th grade pop music montage project

 

1950’s:

 

http://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/1950_history.html

 

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html

 

 

1960 ‘s:

 

http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/topics/culture/

 

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

 

http://teachers.westport.k12.ct.us/resource/twentieth_century.htm

 

http://www.fashion-era.com/1960-1980.htm

 

 

1970’s:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70.html

 

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1970s.html

 

 

http://library.sullivan.edu/links/history_1970.htm

 

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1970s.html

 

 

1980’s:

 

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade80.html

 

http://www.vintageblues.com/history8.htm

 

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1980.html

 

 

all eras:

 

http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/bltime1950.htm

 

http://teachers.westport.k12.ct.us/resource/twentieth_century.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

POP MUSIC MONTAGE

 

Other Groups:

  (that we did not study)

 

 

1950’s:

 

Nat King Cole                          Johnny Cash                             Tony Bennett

Perry Cuomo                            Bill Haley & the Comets           Pat Boone

Chubby Checker                      Bobby Darrin                           Dean Martin

 

 

 

 

1960’s

 

Monkeys                                  Smokey Robinson                    Janice Joplin

Everly Bros.                             The Byrds                                Jimi Hendrix

Marvin Gaye                            Yardbirds                                 Stevie Wonder

Supremes

 

 

 

1970’s

 

Simon & Garfunkel                     Jackson 5                                 The Carpenters

Led Zeppelin                              Santana                                    Dionne Warwick

Elton John                                 John McClean                            Chicago

The - Steve Miller Band               Jim Croce                                  Lynyrd Skynyrd

America                                    Jefferson Starship                      The Eagles

 

 

 

1980’s

 

Blondie                         Billy Joel                                   Captain & Tenille

Pat Benatar                              Air Supply                                Styx

ACDC                                     J. Geils Band                             The Go-Go's

Foreigner                                   Daryl Hall And John Oates          Michael Jackson

Sting                                         Cindy Lauper                             Duran Duran

Prince                                       Bruce Springsteen                     Madonna 

Phil Collins                                Huey Lewis & the News