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=Expert: Guitar sweeper= =Name: Antonio Garcia=
 * Tittle: Sweep This**

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= =My topic and why I chose it:= The reason i chose being an expert guitar player is because I like and enjoy playing and learning how to play the guitar. I like playing guitar because I admire and am inspired to play the type of music i listen to. My favorite genre of music is called thrash metal. thrash metal was started in the early 1980's. I can play the guitar and bass but not as good and fast as i would like to learn, well not yet...

**gui·tar**  [ gi- tahr ] –noun a stringed musical  instrument with a long,  fretted neck, a flat, somewhat violinlike body, and typically __[|six] __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">strings, <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> which are <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">plucked <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> with the fingers or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">plectrum. = = = =

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My researched questions:
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 * Who invented the electric guitar?
 * How dose an amp work?
 * How do pick ups work?
 * How does the rattling of the strings make different sounds?

**Annotated Bibliography—A list of my sources and what I learned from each of them** "Sweep Picking". UltimateGuitar.com. Ultimate-guitar, 2011. Web. 3 May 2011. The use of this website is to teach beginer guitar and bass players and to help more advanced guitar and bass players. Its a website created by Ultimate-guitar and can be assisted by visitors to the site. such as a wiki, I can add information and links but I can not edit others information and work. The information on this website was very useful to me not only because it shows tabs teaching me how to learn a song but it also tells me the correct way to pick the strings. I like this website and find it useful and would recamend it to guitar playing beginers. = =

=Vocabulary That Are Important to Understanding My Topic:= Fret bar: Fret: Pick up:
 * A strip of wood on the neck of a stringed musical instrument against which the strings are pressed in playing
 * Each of a sequence of bars or ridges on the fingerboard of some stringed musical instruments (such as the guitar), used for fixing the positions of the fingers to produce the desired notes
 * An electronic devise attached to the body of an electric guitar used to pick up sound waves given off the rattling guitar string

Amplifier: =
 * An electronic device for increasing the amplitude of electrical signals, used chiefly in sound reproduction.
 * A device of this kind combined with a loudspeaker, used to amplify musical instruments

= =Planning my presentation:= A Reason why I chose my topic =May 10, 2011= Question 4: What is the difference of of a B.C Rich Warlock and A Gibson les paul? Source 1: Warlock guitar Source 2: Gipson les paul Guitar
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= = = = = = = = =May 3, 2011= Question 3: how do you learn the sweeping technique? Source: Sweeping technique lesson 1 Answer: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial; line-height: normal;">//Here are a few tabs for sweeps that I first learned. They helped me learn the technique of sweep picking a lot. At first they start easy, but then they gradually get harder.//

When you are sweep picking, every note is sounded out separately, and your picking hand is moving up or down the strings in a single motion, instead of picking every note like you normally would. On these riffs, start slow until you can play each one perfectly, and then gradually play it faster. Once you can play the riff flawless, move onto the next one. This is to get you used to the feeling of moving your pick up and down the drings in one motion. Each finger is taken off the fret after the note is played. So basically on this riff you never have more then one finger on the fretboard at a time.
 * d** = down stroke
 * u** = up stroke

__** "sweep Picking". Ultimateguitar.com. Ultimate_Guitar, 2011. Web. 3 May 2011. **__ The use of this website is to teach beginner guitar and bass players and to help more advanced guitar and bass players. It is a website created by Ultimate-Guitar and assisted by instrument players who visit the website such as wiki but not quite because I can add information and add links but I can not edit other peoples work or information. I found the information on this website to be useful because not only dose the website show the fret number tabs teaching me how to play a song but it also tells me the correct way to pick. I like this website and find it useful and I would recommend it to beginners pursuing a corer as a musician.
 * Annotated Bibliography**

code d d  d  u  u  u e|12-14| b|-13---13-| g|--14-12--| d|-| a|-| e|-| code

The first one introduces hammer ons and pull offs.

Many times when you are sweeping, you have a starting point using a hammer on or pull off at the top or bottom of the figure. Practice these enough to feel comfortable with using the hammer ons or pull offs.

code d    u  d  d  d        u  d  d  d        u e|--15p12--12h15p12--12h15p12-| b|1313--1313--13--| g|---1212-| d|| a|| e|| code

This figure is part of the intro for Bleeding Mascara, by Atreyu.

Instead of using a hammer on and pull off at the top, you are picking all of it. This is a bit more tricky on your right hand.

code d d  d  u  d  u  d  d  d  u  d  u  d  d  d  u  d  u  d  u  d  u  d  u d|---13-17-13--13-17-13--13-17-1318-17-15-17-15-13-| a|15--1515--1515--15---| f|-141414--| c|-| g|-| c|-| code

This has one more string added onto it. It is a little harder, but with practice you will eventually get it, obviously. This was the first 4 string sweep I could ever play.

code d    u  u  d  d  d  d        u  u e|--19p1515h19p15| b|17--17--17-| g|---161616--| d|--15---| a|---| e|---|

d d  d  d        u  u  d  d  d  d        u  u e|---13h17p1313h17p13| b|15--15--15--15-| g|-14141414--| d|--13--13---| a|---| e|---| code

This figure is a part of a riff from Seize the Day, by Avenged Sevenfold. In the first part of this figure, you will learn to play the notes on the same fret. To do this, you must put your finger all on the 15th fret, and roll your hand as you play it. What I mean by rolling it, is your hand will move so that your thumb will be moving up and down behind the neck. As your rolling your hand, your finger will be rolling so that it touches each string as you sweep.

code u    u  u  d  d  d  d  u     u  u e|--18p1515-18p15| b|15--15--15-| g|---151515--| d|--17---| a|---| d|---|

d d  d  d  u     u  u  d  d  d  d  u     u  u e|---13-17p1313-17p13| b|15--15--15--15-| g|-14141414--| d|--15--15---| a|---| d|---| code = = =April 30, 2011= im on Wikispaces instead of Facebook or Myspace.:) Hi Ms.Lona = = = = =April 28, 2011= Research Questions for the Expert list

__Question 1:__. Who invented the electric guitar? Source 1 : the invention of the electric guitar Answer : there is not just one person who invented the electric guitar but,<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> in the 1940s and 1950s, players and makers began building Spanish-style electric guitars with solid wooden bodies, which led to new designs and new sounds. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">As shown below there is a sketch of a circle shaped body electric guitar during August 10, 1937.

George Beauchamp's patent for the Rickenbacker Frying Pan, filed in 1934 and issued in 1937.

__Question 2:__ How do the guitar Pick ups work? Source 2 : howstuffworks.com/electric-guitar Answer : <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 24px;">Electric Guitar Pickups <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To produce sound, an electric guitar senses the vibrations of the strings **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">electronically ** and routes an electronic signal to an amplifier and __<span style="color: #005288; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|speaker] __. The sensing occurs in a **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">magnetic pickup ** mounted under the strings on the guitar's body. A simple magnetic pickup looks like this:
 * < [[image:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/eg-magnet.gif align="center" caption="Diagram of a magnetic pickup"]]

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A vibrating string cuts through the field of a bar magnet in the pickup, producing a signal in the pickup's coil. ** ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This pickup consists of a **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bar magnet ** wrapped with as many as 7,000 turns of fine **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wire **. If you have read__<span style="color: #005288; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|How Electromagnets Work] __, then you know that coils and magnets can turn electrical energy into motion. In the same way, they can turn motion into electrical energy. In the case of an electric guitar, the vibrating steel strings produce a corresponding vibration in the magnet's magnetic field and therefore a vibrating current in the coil. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are many different types of pickups. For example, some pickups extend a single magnet bar under all six strings. Others have a separate polepiece for each string, like this:
 * < [[image:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/eg-magnets.gif align="center" caption="Multiple magnetic polepieces"]] ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some pickups use screws for polepieces so that the height of each polepiece can be adjusted. The closer the polepiece is to the string, the stronger the signal. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The pickup's coil sends its signals through a very simple __<span style="color: #005288; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|circuit] __ on most guitars. The circuit looks something like this:
 * < [[image:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/guitar-circuit.gif align="center" caption="Diagram of an electric guitar circuit"]] ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The upper variable resistor adjusts the **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tone **. The resistor (typically 500 kilo-ohms max) and __<span style="color: #005288; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|capacitor] __(0.02 microfarads) form a simple low-pass filter. The filter cuts out higher frequencies. By adjusting the resistor you control the frequencies that get cut out. The second resistor (typically 500 kilo-ohms max) controls the **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">amplitude ** (volume) of the signal that reaches the jack. From the jack, the signal runs to an amplifier, which drives a __<span style="color: #005288; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|speaker] __.

Welcome to Tony The Tiger's wiki page. sup ppl.!!!

Don't forget to post your 1st memoir before Christmas break! OH I FORGOT hahahaha

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my candy/Food memoir
I remember the first time i had eaten some hot fries. It was when i was in the third grade i was seven or eight years young. It was after school when i was at the boys and girls club I was with my friends who names i don't remember.

Antonio, this memoir is incomplete and cannot be counted as a grade for this marking period.