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What does a straight horizontal line above a few notes, after a changed tempo mean?
The piece is for playing guitar using plectrum:
I am guessing the horizontal line represents the stretch of notes to be played at the changed tempo, and begin playing at the initial tempo after that.
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Why are both D and D# fitting into my E minor key?
I tried to look around for an answer to this problem but don't know how to ask the proper question in a search engine. I've been working on a song and realized recently that while I had been working on the song in the key of Em (E, F#, G, A, B, C,…
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How do pianists reach extremely loud dynamics?
This question of mine started when I heard the piano score of Mars by Gustav Holst. Here is the piano score:
How do the pianists even reach triple f? I myself have come across extreme dynamics in piano pieces even by Romantic Period composers…
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Does the kind of wood used in making a violin affect its sound?
Whenever I check on violin-learning-related sites, they usually begin talking about the quality of a violin. The strings, the species of woods...
... the species of wood. Ebony? Maple? Rosewood? I think I understand how important the string quality…
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What does a duplicated note in a chord mean?
While reading the score of Misty (Burke, Garner, arranged by Roed), I encountered the following chord notation (it's on the bass clef in bar 32, and the signature is E-flat major):
What does the duplicate F-sharp mean?
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What is a key signature?
I'm trying to learn the flute and I bought a book to help me learn. In one of the first chapters it describes something about key signatures and the circle of fifths and I'm completely lost.
What is a key signature? What does it mean when a song is…
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Violin - Can double stops be played when the strings are not next to each other?
Suppose I wanted to play a double stop on the violin. The double stop played the G string and the A string simultaneously. Is this possible? Can you play a double stop on two non-adjacent strings?
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What is brightness?
I hear the term get thrown around a lot, and it seems pretty nebulous. Usually, it's invoked under the heading of tone, but I've heard it linked to intonation and a handful of other categories. At the physical level, though, how do the waves of a…
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Small natural above C in G Major
Here is a picture of the sheet music (Eine Klein Nachtmusik, movement 1). The odd accidental has a red freehand circle around it.
What does this natural sign mean? As you can see, the key is G Major and the C is left natural in G Major. There is no…
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How can I do rough vocals without hurting my voice?
I recently wrote a song where the vocals are supposed to sound rough, but not quite growling/screaming. What's the best way to get that sort of sound from my voice without any long-term or short-term adverse effects?
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When playing in a minor key, will the chords be minor as well?
I've been jumping into music theory myself and I've been stumbling on creating certain melodies and such. I've played guitar all my teenage life and not once have I ever sat down and said I'm going to play in a certain key and write a song off of…
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Which key are these notes and how to transpose it to the key of D?
I am a beginner in music theory so please bear with me. I was looking up a document which talks about transposing music and I understand a few things I think about transposing music. But if I, for example, have a sequence of these notes:
E D# E…
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Four dots over tremolo minim (half note with slash)
I'm working on National Emblem by E. E. Bagley. In the second strain, there is a minim with the tremolo mark. Above it are four dots. What do they mean?
Here is a picture. The mark in question is found in the third measure of the second line. It is…
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What are power chords?
I have heard about power chords being used in a lot of metal and similar music but I have no idea what they are.
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Villa-Lobos étude diamond shaped note
In the first étude from the 12 études for guitar by Villa-Lobos, what are these diamond shaped notes?
Additionally, what are these circled notes (G, B and E) below those diamond notes?
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