Keyboard Skills Evaluation and Guitar Skills

Keyboard Skills Evaluation

1) What grade did you get? Were you happy with it?

     - My grade was Merit because I played Shotgun instead of Havana because I've been practising

       Havana before the performance. I'm still happy in Merit because I still passed it.

2) What did you find challenging about Keyboards?

     - I found out that it's hard to play in my left hand because I use to use my right more than my left 

       hand and I also found out that playing some keyboards in one time is hard because my fingers can't

       reach each notes.

3) What part of Keyboard skills could you improve?

     - I think I need to improve concentrating on the keyboard while playing .

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Guitar Skills

1) Find a picture of an acoustic guitar and label it.

2) Where did the guitar start it's life? Which country? Who invented it? What did it look like?

     - The guitar is originated in Spain. Antonio Torres Jurado invented acoustic guitar.

3) Find 5 key musicians that play guitar.

     - John Lennon

     - George Harrison

     - Jimmy Page

     - Jimmy Hendrix

     - Eddie Van Halen
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Guitar Skills Pt. 2

1. There are four sections of the Orchestra, which section does the Guitar belong?
- Strings

2. List other sections of the Orchestra.
- Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion and Strings

3. For each section, list 10 instruments for each section.
 
Woodwinds
-  Saxophone
-  Clarinets
-  Flutes
-  Oboe
-  Bassoons
-  Ocarinas
-  Piccolo
-  Tin Whistles
-  Bansuri
-  Melodicas

Brass
-  Trumpet
-  Trombones
-  Tubas
-  French Horns
-  Didgeridoo
-  Cornet
-  Bugle
-  Flugel Horn
-  Tenor Horn
-  Euphonium

Percussion
-  Xylophone
-  Drum
-  Tambourines
-  Marimba
-  Hang
-  Bongo Drum
-  Finger and Hand Cymbals
-  Tabla
-  Steel Pan
-  Chime

Strings
-  Guitars
-  Violins
-  Cellos
-  Electric Guitar
-  Bass Guitar
-  Mandolin
-  Harps
-  Lute
-  Sitar
-  Oud

4. Find labelled pictures of the following guitar family instruments, Banjo, Bass, 12 String Guitar, Double Bass, Lute. Make note of the differences

Chromatography - Separating a Mixture of Coloured Compound

For our science we did an experiment called ' Separating a Mixture of Coloured Compounds '. For this blog post, I am about to share you my experiment

Separating a Mixture Using Chromatography

Aim:  To separate the different pigments in inks or dyes using paper chromatography

Method:

1.  Cut a strip of filter paper that is long enough to reach the bottom of your beaker and able to wrap around your pencil.

2.  Rule a line in pencil approximately 2 cm from the bottom of your piece of paper.

3.  Fill your beaker with enough chromatography solution to fill your beaker to a depth of 1 cm.

4.  Place a dot of ink above the ruled line on your filter paper. You need to produce a concentrated dot of ink so repeated applications may be necessary.

5.  Suspend the strip of paper from the pencil. You may need to use adhesive tape to stop it from falling into the solution.

6.  Wait to see what happens. It is important that you do not move the beaker. If the solution comes in contact with the ink dot, the ink will run down into the solution, rather than move up the filter paper.

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Observations:  As the filter paper was put in the water, the paper started to absorb the water until it reached the coloured part of the water. Then the colour started to spread over the filter paper but it didn't spread quickly.

Discussion:  As the water goes up over the filter paper, the water started to spread over the space where the water is, the colour started to spread until it reached the very bottom where's the water came from. But if the colour reached the water, you did it wrong, but the colour will go into the water and will make the water colourful.

Results:

Evaporation - Separating a Solid Dissolve in a Liquid

Today we are working about evaporation.

Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using evaporation.

Method:

1.  Set up the Bunsen Burner, tripod and gauze mat. Don't place the Bunsen Burner under the tripod yet.

2.  Add approximately 50 mL of hot water to your beaker and place it on top of the tripod, on the gauze mat.

3.  Add enough copper sulphate solution to quarter fill the evaporating basin.

4. Carefully place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker.

5. Light your Bunsen Burner. Open the air hole and gently push the Bunsen Burner solute are forming.

6.  Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated and crystals of solute are forming.

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Observations:  As the water boiled, the steam heated the evaporating basin causing the copper sulfate solution to evaporate. It's the water left the basin, small crystals of solid copper sulfate were left deposited around the basin.

1. Outline two factors that affect the speed of evaporation ( i . e how can the speed of evaporation be increased? ).

(  a  )  Temperature  ( higher temp  =  faster evaporation )

(  b  )  Surface area  ( greater surface area  =  faster evaporation ) 

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Results: 

Discussion:  As we heat the water with the Bunsen burner, the water evaporates and form the solution. As the solvent evaporates, the solute form the solution with the help of Bunsen burner and evaporation, we leave the blue crystal for about 2 days and form the copper sulphate.

Separating a Mixture Using Distillation

For our science experiment, we are about to distillate a coke. We used to used coke instead of water and salt. Look at my observations below.

Separating a Mixture Using Distillation

Aim:  To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using distillation.

Method:  

1. Set up the equipment as shown in the diagram.

2. Add approximately 50 mL of water and a few drops of food colouring to your conical flask.

3. Light your Bunsen burner. Open the air hole and gently push the Bunsen burner under the tripod. 

4. Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated. Turn off your Bunsen burner.

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Discussion:

- Boiling / Evaporating
- Condensing
- Distillation
- Solvent
- Solution
- Solute

Observations:  The solution boils and steam can be observed moring up the conical flask. The coke drops form in the delivery tube and run into the beaker.

1.  Name and describe the process occurring time.

    ( a )  conical flask     -     evaporation

    ( b )  delivery tube     -     condensation

Preparing For My Keyboard Assessment

Preparing For My Keyboard Assessment

Questions:

1. Which song did you chose and why.
     - I chose Havana it is because the sound is already familiar to me and the piano has the same chords
       that's why I chose Havana by Camila Cabello.

2. What are you finding challenging?
     - I found out that playing the chords without stopping can mess up in your mind, and sometimes I
       touched the wrong chords.

3. What do you need to work on this week?
     - I have to practice well in my right hand and memorise each chords.