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What techniques do you use to read sheet music faster
As I'm learning piano without any teacher due to lack of resources, I wanted to know what techniques other people employ to read sheet music without much effort. For example, right now, I use the landmarking system
to read as fast I can, but I still…
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Voicing in the Finale of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"
In the opening bars of the last movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th, the strings have some four-part writing with a melody "F# E D C# B C#." However, the score reveals that the first and second violins are actually crossing voices at every note change, so…
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What is the reason for pitch inflation?
There's this phenomenon among instrumentalists to constantly raise the pitch of the concert A. This generally occurs among string players, since the range of tunings for woodwinds, for example, is often severely limited or nonexistent. Wikipedia (or…
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What do the 2 "push/pull" knobs on my guitar do?
I have a Dean electric guitar (couldn't find it on their website, sorry) with a 3 position switch, 2 knobs, and 2 double humbuckers. I know what the switch does, but am confused about the knobs.
I am aware that with two knobs, one is for volume and…
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How to preserve audio from old tapes: baking tapes to transfer to digital?
In my loft I have a collection of old quarter-inch tapes dating back to the eighties, mostly, though some as far back as the sixties. I'd like to be able to hear these again, and maybe transfer some of them to digital. However, I've heard that old…
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Trill measure 29 3rd movement "Moonlight" sonata (Beethoven op. 27 no. 2)
How do you play the trill in measure 29 of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata?
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Why is the whammy bar sometimes called a "Tremolo" arm?
Who coined or mis-used the term Tremolo for the pitch-bending mechanism often found on electric guitars?
Tremolo cannot actually be effected by using the 'whammy bar'.
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Can you record several individual string instruments and put them together to sound like a real orchestra?
During these times of the pandemic, our senior school orchestra missed out on the traditional final performance before graduating on with the rest of our lives.
Due to the stay-at-home order, we aren't allowed to leave our homes often. However, I…
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Playing Guitar Tabs on Piano?
I was wondering if anyone could possibly explain how I could somehow translate a guitar tab into notes on piano. Is there some sort of algorithm I can apply?
ex:
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B|---------------------------------| Riff…
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Can one use a whole note to span a full 5/4 measure?
I'm transcribing a piano passage in 5/4 time here, and I think I'm doing well so far.
I find myself mildly annoyed by having to notate the chords that span the whole measure (first in right hand, then in the left for the last two measures of the…
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What does it mean to play in a mode?
So here's what I know about modes:
Let's say we're in the key of C major. If you're just improvising in the key of C, you would say you're using the C Ionian mode, right?
But here's where I get confused: If I "shift" up to, say, E, I'm now playing…
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How can I develop an interesting or challenging 8-Beat rock rhythm?
The band I play with generally wants a simple 8-beat rhythm but I can find it a bit boring to play! So I'm looking for suggestions/tips/sheet music/video on how to develop a standard 8-beat drum pattern to make it more interesting/challenging to…
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Basic Accidental Question
Example: You have d major scale but you make a c flat accidental, does it just naturalize c back to its basic form or make it an enharmonic b? Ive tried searching on google but found nothing. It's like flats and sharps raise and lower notes by a 1/2…
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Do we have any particular tonal center in mind when we are NOT listening music?
Let say I sing or play song in C major. I feel that C note as home, or in other words, it has the quality of the tonic note for me. I stop playing the song. After 24 hours or any longer period, without listening or playing any other songs I will…
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Do they make "karaoke" versions of concertos for solo practice?
Say I as a pianist want to play/practice Saint-Saens's second piano concerto, but I happen to not have a symphony orchestra in my living room. How can I play this? Are there "pianoless" recordings to play along with?
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