# Basic Blues & Rock

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

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

* 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

See: Learning Projects and the Wikiversity:Learning model.

### Portals

Portal:Music
* 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:
* Portal:Music/Blues & Rock

### Collaborations

* 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

Remember, Wikiversity has adopted the "learning by doing" model for education. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. We learn by doing.
* Blues basics
* Rock basics
* Blues & Rock instruments
* Guitar tuning
* Circle of fifths
* add many!

### Sessions

We're going to customize Learning project codes, by adding "sessions":
* Portal:Music/Blues & Rock
* Tuning up
* 12-bar Blues Jam
* Learn to Rock
* Forming a Band
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

Sweeping the garage... chill for a bit
Meanwhile, you can read Introduction to GarageBand

## To do

Lots of things to do
See: Naming conventions

### Chores

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

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

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

* CQ • no subpage yet
* Ex Machina • no subpage yet
* Mirwin Music SubpageUser:Mirwin/musical_activities
* TheVividDream • no subpage yet
* Thierry613

### User subpages

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

These are mostly at Wikiversity:Sister projects (under the Wikimedia Foundation umbrella). Wikiversity resources should be listed above this section.

### Meta

Meta
* m:Embed Media

### Wikibooks

Wikibooks
These may be imported to Wikiversity later :
* The Physics of Music
* Triads
* add other wikibooks here

### Commons

Commons :
* commons:Category:Music
* commons:Category:Wikiversity music New!

### Wikipedia

Wikipedia :
* 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

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"