Questions tagged [technique]
For questions about ways to use one's instrument or voice precisely to produce a desired musical effect.
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Technical name for an arpeggio played fast across entire piano?
When someone starts at the left and plays all the way to the right playing an arpeggio very fast. Is it called a sweep, a run, or is there a different technical name for when you do an arpeggio across ...
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If whistle voice = super high headvoice, then can I use high falsetto to learn whistle note?
Soo I want to learn whistle tone, and I can do falsetto but not headvoice.
I heard people say that whistle is super high headvoice, can I use falsetto instead in place of headvoice to learn whistle ...
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Anyone knows how this rare "angelic" headvoice/falsetto is achieved? (Edit) [closed]
So I randomly scrolled Youtube and found this cover:
At 1.06, I'm wondering..
how is this "angelic" head voice achieved? If it's just airy/breathy head voice, ...
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What is the healthiest and safest way to sing with a belty, powerful and emotive voice? Is glottal compression really safe?
So, I usually sing loudly without belt or something like that. I did some research on this and I want my voice to sound powerful, very loud, emotive in a safe way.
Just like this song: Jon Bon Jovi - ...
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What's an easier way to separate the notes in a riff and runs?
So, I'm learning riff and runs and memorized major and minor scale.
I happen to have a problem that my riff and runs are messy, so I followed this tutorial:
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When to start learning double stops on violin?
I am an adult beginner on the violin and would just like to say I've absolutely loved it so far. I started at the very beginning of this year and found a teacher who I'm extremely happy with. Around ...
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Hand size and extended chords on piano [duplicate]
I have tried stretching my hand out but I seem to max out somewhere around 16 semitones so I wonder how 11th or 13th chords are supposed to be approached. Are they usually voiced within that span or ...
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Learning Piano/Keyboard
I started 1 year ago learning keyboard -the method being Full chord with prominence for melody note with right hand , and left hand with root note ( with fixing last finger on tonic note ). For eg: if ...
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Voice - Trouble with high notes
I'm finding I'm having a lot of difficulty singing notes that are in the upper range. I have a voice teacher, and she's giving me warmups and tips about keeping my throat open. I've made some progress ...
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How do I play this chord? [duplicate]
How would one play this chord? I am 6'2" and have medium to large hands but there is no way I can reach from the E to G#. Is there a trick to it?
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Is there a way to sing actual clear, nice two notes? (Polyphonic overtone singing)
So I found this two video
On polyphonic overtone singing,
I'm just wondering is there a way to actually sing good two notes that doesn't ...
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Forearm soreness playing constant octaves
I have been playing piano approximately one year. The music genre that I play (merengue) has the right hand almost exclusively playing in the octave position. Below is a short clip of me playing along ...
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How to pick with thumb but without thumbnails?
I am trying to play the bass strings without thumbnails because I like the sound. I trimmed my thumbnails to minimum so they don't get in the way.
It's surprisingly hard to play such that the strings ...
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What is this vocal ornament called?
There is a vocal technique used in this audio clip that sounds Arabic and melismatic on the lyric “smile”. The notes go up from G3 to G#3 and back to G3 again. Some say it is a mordent but I think the ...
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What are Rachmaninoff's most difficult chords for the right and left hand?
Context: My teacher and I were playing some AI generated music which included some chords that were quite difficult if not impossible to play. We started speculating about what are the most difficult ...
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Left hand thumb position for ukulele
Some people:
place the thumb behind the neck (more freedom for fingers)
some let the neck fall deep between the thumb and index finger, and the thumb is visible above the fretboard
Which position ...
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How can I play 16th-note hi-hats at 150 bpm?
Is it possible to play a beat of 16th-note hi-hats with bass drum on 1 and 3, and snare on 2 and 4, at 150 bpm? I.e.:
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A song I'm trying to ...
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Why do guitar teachers and lesson books teach playing a G Major chord without using your pinky?
Why do most guitar teachers and beginner guitar lesson books teach the fingering for the G major chord using the ring finger to fret the g note on 3rd fret of high e string rather than using your ...
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Pulling off into or over next string
When performing a pull off on guitar, is there a consensus on whether you should pull off into the next higher string or "across" it? The former does not require muting that string with the ...
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Performance directions for a vocal technique
I'm in the process of transcribing
Just Like Heaven by The Cure from audio to notation.
The lead singer Robert Smith has a vocal style where he doesn't seem to hold a pitch for long before sliding to ...
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What is the technique called where you hold a crash cymbal while hitting it?
I used to play in a band with a drummer who used to grab the crash cymbal (before hitting it) with his left hand and strike it hard (on the edge) whilst playing the bass drum. This made a really nice ...
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Guitar Strumming and the High E string
I'm relatively new to playing guitar and I am currently learning on an acoustic. I am adding strumming to my skillset at the moment (as there's only so far downstrokes can take me), but I'm having a ...
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problem with guitar intro on ELPs "From the Beginning"
This be a really dumb question, but sometimes there's a problem passage that keeps being a thorn in my side forever. And I do mean forever, because I've probably messed with this song for decades. If ...
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Advice for playing smoothly on mini synth keys
I am struggling to play scales/runs at a smooth volume on my new mini synth, a Yamaha Reface CP. That I get accidentally loud notes mixed in, that really get into the harsh loud part of the sample and ...
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Name for music that imitates speech
I have searched and asked others for the answer to this but have come up dry: what is the name or technique in music where musical notes approximate/imitate speech? Note that I am not talking about ...
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What are tone colors and how can you produce different tone colors when playing the piano?
I have heard that some tones are more mellow whereas others are brighter. However, I was wondering what is the difference between these two types of tones on the piano. Although I have heard that ...
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Why am I unable to buzz my lips?
First of all, a little bit of context.
I have been playing the trumpet for one year and a half already. I am undergoing my second change of embochure, so I really want to do things right not to start ...
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how to play a double mordent on the piano
I am guessing the wavy line from one chord up to another chord is called "double mordent," from my looking online. How it is played?
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How do you deal with longer right hand middle finger when playing classical guitar? [closed]
My right hand technique is quite poor, and middle finger keeps touching the string below.
Should I find the ideal amount of curvature of middle finger? Or is there another way?
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How to learn to play the pipe organ?
I have been playing piano for about 13 years now. I want to go to the next level: playing church pipe organs.
A few weeks ago, my dream to play a church pipe organ became true, after a Catholic mass ...
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With which part of my pinkie should I hit the piano keys?
I've recently started learning Chopin's Fantaisie – Impromptu in C# minor for piano on my own.
The left hand nearly always plays the same pattern, with the pinky hitting the lowest tone. The pattern (...
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What is a slide-to-lift-off called?
At the end of the first solo the guitarist slides backwards an the lifts off the note. I'm pretty sure that is a thing violinist also do. Is there a term for that, I do seem to want to think so?
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two hands arpegiato : simultaneously or left first, followed by right hand?
In this score (Danse Macabre, Saint-Saëns/Liszt)
there is an arpeggiated chord across the two hands: should it be done simultaneously or done first with left hand, followed by right hand?
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What is the difference between 'martelé' and 'détaché' bowing?
As the title asks, I wish it could be clear to me. Can someone give me a good characterization? Do you produce them differently on a cello than on a violin or viola?
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Rachmaninoff C# minor prelude: towards the end, staff lines are joined together, and there are two end markings [duplicate]
I'm studying Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor and towards the end, the staff lines are joined together, with two ending lines.
Do I need four hands? :)
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Should I lift my finger before I hit a key when playing a piano?
I've noticed, that many people are hitting keys, instead of just pressing them. It kinda looks like that before they press the note, they lift the finger a little bit, same as if you tried to hit a ...
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Piano agility -- hitting a wall with speed
I've started up practicing piano again in the last few months after 15 years of classical lessons and then a 7 year gap, and I'm running into a similar issue to one I had back in the day playing piano,...
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New to reading kit music - questions about technique
I’m a self taught drum kit player and this is my first time reading drum sheet music. I’ve made drum sheets before with MuseScore, so I can read most things fine, but there’s one section where it asks ...
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Playing legato while staccato in Rachmaninoff's "Etude-Tableaux Op. 33"
In Rachmaninoff's 'Étude-Tableaux Op.33 No.4 in D-minor' there are plenty of places where you are supposed to play staccato while playing legato in the left hand (for example, measures 32-34 below). ...
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Sustaining, while replaying, notes in Rachmaninoff Prelude in A flat Op. 23 No. 8
Bars 32-39 of this prelude call for the left hand to play a line built from sustained notes that also get repeatedly replayed in the right hand's sixteenth note arpeggiations.
I cannot figure out ...
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How can I get a sound similar to Shine by Collective Soul?
I love the riff in that song but no matter how much I fiddle with my amp head and pedals, I just can't seem to duplicate that warm, fuzzy feel. Here's a link if you are unfamiliar with the song.
I ...
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Practicing airflow away from the tenor recorder
I have a new Yamaha tenor recorder, and I love practicing it. But I'm having a really hard time not overblowing, especially in the lowest register.
I'm a tuba player, so using so little air is really ...
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How to embrace the metronome after years of bad habits?
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I have been dabbling in guitar for over 20 years. I have decent dexterity, technique, and musical theory. However, I don't count time and never use a metronome. I always sound like a weak ...
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Violin - How would you play vibrato on an open string?
I was learning vibrato on the violin, and came across this video. In this video, it tells you that vibrato is just a fast slur. Using that method, how would you play vibrato on an open string?
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Wrist vibrato / releasing index finger from the violin neck
I am teaching myself the vibrato technique on violin and I have some doubts about it. Hopefully some one can shed some light here.
If I understand correctly, it may be obvious because no one writes ...
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Violin left-hand thumb position
Adult self-taught violinist here. I've been learning for about three years.
I've developed a habit of allowing the left-hand thumb to protrude rather high above the fingerboard, so that the neck of ...
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Violin - Slurring double stops
I was reading some violin sheet music when I came across something that looked like a slurred double stop. Here is an image:
The problem is that both double stops use the same fingers, but on ...
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Why is alberti bass so tiring?
I am practicing the second movement of Mozart's K 545 sonata. I notice that Alberti Bass is very tiring. More so than other 16th note rhythms. So much so that I feel the burn in my left hand because ...
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Piano - Triplets turn into sixteenths
I am having trouble with playing triplets at higher speeds (such as at the end of the Pathetique Sonata, 3rd movement). I find that when I speed things up to tempo that the triplets always turn into ...
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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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