Notes
What do I need to practise?
Do I solo and when?
How will the piece be performed?
What are some suggestions your teacher gave to help your music making?
How do the performers in the recordings make a simple song cool?
Work Song
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What’s a Chain Gang?
This song is all about injustice. Before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, African-Americans were routinely mistreated. Punishments usually were much more severe than what fit the crime – which was often committed out of desperation (e.g. attempting to put food on the table). Try to put yourself in the shoes of the person in the song: do you think he/she is being treated fairly? (By the way, is the person in the song a man or a woman?) One more question: what’s a chain gang?
Suggested Listening
Work Song
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AdderleyWORK SONG music by Nat Adderley, words by Oscar Brown, Jr. © 1960 by Upam Music Co., a division of Gopam Enterprises, Inc. Renewed
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