Staining the guitar necks: top: Seon and Hector; middle: Natalie. bottom: Rashid and Seon; Photos by Seniz Lennes.
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My New York guitar
This blog is a part of an afterschool music/instrument building/electronics My New York program at Franklin K. Lane High School and Wingate High School.
Foundation Statement:
The electric guitar has had a profound effect on the music and culture of New York. From the early, pioneering days of the instrument (Les Paul) to 60s folk (Bob Dylan, et al) to the beginnings of punk in NY's Lower East Side to guitar-based hiphop (Beastie Boys, Run DMC, et al) to reggaeton and other musical styles and forms today.
The guitar, in both its electric and acoustic forms, continues to shape the sound of NY, with new forms emerging and evolving as new groups of people come to the city and contribute from their own cultural heritage and their individual innovations.
Through listening to examples, viewing photographs, reading texts and viewing video about guitar-based music in NY, students will explore the role guitar has played in NY life. Students will explore and discuss influences that inspire their own music. Finally, students will design, build, and play their own New York guitars and create recordings and performances of their original work.
Essential Question:
What is my New York guitar?
Foundation Statement:
The electric guitar has had a profound effect on the music and culture of New York. From the early, pioneering days of the instrument (Les Paul) to 60s folk (Bob Dylan, et al) to the beginnings of punk in NY's Lower East Side to guitar-based hiphop (Beastie Boys, Run DMC, et al) to reggaeton and other musical styles and forms today.
The guitar, in both its electric and acoustic forms, continues to shape the sound of NY, with new forms emerging and evolving as new groups of people come to the city and contribute from their own cultural heritage and their individual innovations.
Through listening to examples, viewing photographs, reading texts and viewing video about guitar-based music in NY, students will explore the role guitar has played in NY life. Students will explore and discuss influences that inspire their own music. Finally, students will design, build, and play their own New York guitars and create recordings and performances of their original work.
Essential Question:
What is my New York guitar?
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- Nick soldering up a headphone amplifier.
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- Anisha with her New York flower guitar. Anisha spe...
- Shante's Teddy bear rock! guitar, and Tameeka's pi...
- Ayonde calculates where his frets will go, using a...
- Rashid paints his guitar. Photos by Seniz Lennes.
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- Natalie paints her guitar. Photos by Seniz Lennes.
- Tameeka paints her skull guitar, while Anisha work...
- Shakia paints her guitar body, designed after a fa...
- Shante designs her guitar body.
- Shakia helps Nadeesha paint her guitar. This was o...
- Nadeesha gets ready to saw her guitar body.
- Nick saws out his guitar body.
- Taylor paints her boot guitar.
- Francisco saws his guitar neck.
- Crystal paints her guitar.
- Ayonde cuts out his guitar body with a jigsaw.
- Taylor drills holes in the headstock of her guitar...
- The kids have been working hard, making their guit...
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