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http://www.lancastersymphony.org/Portals/1/docs/pdfs/music%20notation/Rests_8_lowres.pdf
http://www.openguitar.com/theory/tw02_preparing_score.html
To draw the quarter rest, draw the
right side of a letter “R”, omitting
the vertical, or start with a number
“2”, but pull the horizontal line down
on the right. Put the hook on the
bottom and ...
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In general I find that I am slowed by grabbing the page, not by the actual turning. You could bend the corners of the pages forward so that it's easier to grab quickly, or use those sticky flags on the pages, or something like that.
As for turning pages where there's no break for one hand, you need to memorize the music. You can memorize all of it and ...
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This type of notation is used to indicate tremolos.
A single figure is made up of two noteheads of identical value (in this case, half notes) that are beamed together in a way that indicates the speed of the tremolo.
The rhythmic length to be played is that of one of the beamed half notes. You would alternate between the two noteheads at a speed of 32nd ...
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Yes, unfortunately it's all about practice. But there are some things you can focus on to speed up the process:
- Learn the notes on the neck by heart, and the associated intervals. That is, learn the notes on the low E-string and the relation between those notes and the notes on the higher strings so that you without thinking can fret a certain interval. ...
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In cases like this you should play the second D, cutting the first one slightly short to accommodate it. It's not a typo, just a choice by the arranger to take the least complicated & most readable approach to notating the music. Think of the printed music as communicating the intended sound, rather than exact movements of your fingers, and it should ...
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One of the tricks you can use is one I have learned watching Gustav Leonhardt in concert. For difficult page turns, he uses a little copy of the start of the next page that he pastes on the side of the preceding right page as a flip.
Not only is it easier on his memory but it allows to grab the page quickly and turn it efficiently. Now that scanners and ...
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It's not a slur; it's a tie. The marking is obviously easy to confuse, but in this case you'll note that there is a slur arching over top of the phrase as well, so this must be something different since there can't be a "double-slur" :)
When two notes of the same pitch are tied together they are played as one whose duration is the sum of the duration of ...
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It is just for emphasis. It is usually just an instance where, in a recent measure in the piece, the F note had a natural attached to it. The F-Sharp would be included in the following measure as a reminder that F is no longer natural, that it is back to the F-Sharp that it is in the key signature.
If there is an X next to a note, it is just a double ...
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In addition to indicating the end of a distinct section of the piece, a change in key signature, time signature or major tempo change, the double bar is also used to mark the location of a Da Capo or Dal Segno (a notation system that marks the repeating of a certain section of music without requiring additional measures to be written/printed.)
It is also ...
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You can try to soften the spine by opening it in various locations and flexing the book gently. (Here's a nice version of the procedure, with diagrams, even; and here's another, similar graphic, this one from a bookbinder.)
If that doesn't work, you can get a piece of clear plastic and leave it over the pages; not an ideal solution, but it will let you use ...
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Simply put, no.
If you limit a song to single pure tones, it's pretty easy to write software to recgonize them and transcribe it. But once you get to a real instrument things get much harder. Even single notes can be difficult to recognize due to overtones -- the dominant frequency doesn't even need to be the fundamental frequency, which makes it very ...
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An arranger specifically changes the music away from what was originally written. This is different from an editor who might clean up notation, clarify the meaning of markings, translate outdated terms, give instructions for proper interpretation, etc. Both technically alter the original but the editor tries to "bring out" the original as much as possible, ...
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I'm pretty sure LilyPond can do what you want. It's not the easiest thing to use but since you've already used a text-based system it might not be too bad. Here are some examples and this is also relevant in this case. MuseScore is another free option, which is easier to use and might also be able to do this.
EDIT: Here's a lilypond version:
And code:
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It certainly won't replace the time you need to practice with the piano, but it will definitely help. In addition it gives you create chances to build a theoretical background knowledge by analyzing the structure of the piece, the chords used and relationship of the notes.
Reading the notes and chords and even clapping or just "thinking" the rhythm is a ...
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from my bookmarks:
http://www.sheetmusictrade.com/
http://imslp.org/wiki
http://icking-music-archive.org/index.php
http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/
http://www.mfiles.co.uk/sheet-music.htm
http://www.bh2000.net/score/
http://www.rowy.net/sheet_music.html
http://www.free-scores.com/index_uk.php3
plus in French:
http://www.lespartitions.info/gratuites/index.php
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A pianist I used to work with would never actually grab the pages she was turning. She would just rely on the friction of her fingers between the front face of the page and swipe the page across. It was a very fast, efficient, and somewhat violent movement. I would not recommend this on any score with a weak binding or easily torn pages.
Disclaimer: I've ...
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Here is a quick example of triplets similar to your description of what you saw:
There are four beats in each measure, but in the first measure, the second beat is divided into three equal sub-beats notated as eighth-note triplets. Three eighth-note triplets fit into the space normally allotted to two eighth notes.
In the second measure, the second beat is ...
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Smaller notes are a different issue, and could be relevant to a second line of lyrics, but you will typically see them only sporadically appear within the top voice.
Anyway, what you're asking about is referred to as multiple voices on a staff. Notes in harmony will generally only be grouped together with a stem if the rhythm is the same, and all of the ...
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Tags are idiomatic to barbershop music (which is typically four a cappella voices), and refer to the ending chords of a song, usually coincident with the last line of lyrics.
Sometimes singers will get together for the sole purpose of singing tags, since they are easier to learn than an entire piece of music and usually consist of harmonic cadences that are ...
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Just to elaborate and clarify, there are a few different types of pizzicato:
There is the standard "pizz." which is done with the flesh of the finger on the bowing hand;
A pizz with fingernail, which gives a more crisp attack;
A "Bartok" or "snap" pizz where the performer pulls the string away from the fingerboard and releases to produce a harsh snapping ...
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Correct, those are indicative of 3 note chords (generally the base / root note, plus the third and fifth above that note). These three note chords are also known as Triads.
This is probably for improvisation purposes, as it gives you the melody in the right hand, then just the idea of the chordal-pattern in the left hand - so that you can do with it ...
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An arrangement is about which instruments play what, when and how for a specific tune.
The core of a tune, or composition, is the melody/-ies1. Using this core an arranger - i.e. the person attributed by "arranged by" - when creating an arrangement may
Decide what instruments, including singing voices, to use
Select key (or keys) for the arrangement (i.e. ...
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Know your major scales! They contextualize the notes, making each note much easier to find. The examples you provided, for instance, are both in the key of C, so if you know how to play a C Major scale, you can see that most of the notes fit within that scale. So you can find certain anchor notes within the scale and figure out the rest from there. Often, ...
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Little Post-It notes as tabs sticking out from the edge of the page. Line them up from top to bottom and it's easy to grab the top one and turn the page.
Another trick with a bad page-turn is to take a pair of scissors and cut horizontally across the middle of the page, like a Dutch door. Then you can turn the top half first and the bottom half later.
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It's generally known as a "Fake Book". Meaning it should give you enough information to "fake your way" through the song at a birthday party or something.
Also the chords are usually in Jazz-Guitar syntax. It's similar to figured-bass. But you're not going to see G 6/4 or any thing like that. A G6 has an E as well as a D. A 'sus 2' has a 2 instead of a 3. ...
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Your digital piano is equipped with a damper, or "sustain" pedal. When depressed, notes will continue to ring until the pedal is released or they fade away on their own. Without the pedal, notes will only ring as long as you hold down the key.
If we had 88 fingers, we wouldn't need the sustain pedal because we could control each note's sustain individually ...
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This question comes across as a shopping recommendation, but since we don't do those on Music.se I'm going to stop short of recommending specific books.
Blues is a broad genre of music -- for example the Chicago Blues of Howlin' Wolf is quite different from the Delta Blues of Leadbelly or the Texas Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan. We don't know which of those ...
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"Tacet" is a Latin musical term meaning (literally) "it is silent". in this case, the number preceding it identifies which repetitions it is to be silent for. Here, the first time through is to be silent. The second time through, do play that segment.
In jazz and other more 'modern' genres, tacet is often used for very short breaks (such as one or two ...
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To follow up Wheat's definition answer, here's how I would play this:
When playing glisses on wind instruments, especially in a contemporary or jazz context, the change in pitch should be as continuous as possible. In contrast, a piano is only capable of playing absolutely defined pitches, so glisses all sound like a fast scale (chromatic or otherwise).
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Yes, this can be done.
I have no direct experience here, but there are several projects underway to translate musical pieces that are in the open-source MusicXML data format (which can be exported from music notation software such as Finale and Sibelius) into Braille sheet music.
There is a great deal of public-domain classical music available in ...
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