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There is a large difference between tone deafness and an undeveloped voice. Unless your parents are musicians, comments like that can be hurtful and can stifle musical exploration and creativity.
Tone deafness is actually quite serious and is as it suggests - an inability to distinguish between certain sounds. This is akin to color-blindness, where a ...
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First, of course, is to play single notes. The Sax is a single-voice instrument, and double stops will not sound sax-y.
Next, you'll have to change the attack-decay-sustain-release characteristics of the guitar to match the saxophone. The sax has sustain as long as the player has breath, and there are techniques like circular breathing that expand that. You ...
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I have read much about the Telecaster, but I still don't know what Leo Fender was thinking. I know that Seth Lover was thinking the same thing, as PAF humbuckers had covers too. It was only into the 70s when you started seeing pickups with their covers removed. Even Strat pickups are covered, albeit with plastic.
In part, the nickel cover was to make the ...
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"Tone deaf" is a bit of a misnomer -- if someone truly wasn't able to understand relative pitch, it would show up in their speech patterns.
So, usually the term is applied to people for whom discerning differences in pitch is difficult, at least with the precision that is required for music. The fact that you must multitask this process with the act of ...
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The tone quest is very ellusive. I too went down trying to get Andy Timmons sound several years ago. It is damn near impossible to get the exact sound without the exact equipment.
PU's matter but the amp and effects are just as important. Each variable in the equation interacts with all the others to create compound effects that are impossible to determine. ...
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The problem may lie with the guitar itself. If you haven't already, have the guitar checked for any type of warpage. It may not look warped but that means your warp just isn't visible. Also have it check for fret bore, which is uneven or 'bored' frets and check for any cracks, pits, blemishes, or damaged spot on your fretboard. I sympathize with these ...
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Good question and an important one --rather than offering my own personal views I suggest that one start by listening widely to other players, and not only bassoon players. For example, the fluctuation in pitch that is so characteristic of vibrato on the cello or violin may not be as attractive on the bassoon ---listen to terrific players and start to form ...
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This area of musical study is called ear training. We have a tag on that subject; I have just added that tag to your question. There are several posts on that subject here on Musical Practice and Performance.
Here is one.
A music teacher can teach you ear-training (although this is usually done in classrooms rather than one-on-one) and there are a lot of ...
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In simplest terms, guitars and basses have specific frequency ranges defined by the typical lowest and highest notes on the fretboards.
Amps AND speakers tend to be designed and/or chosen for their performance in these frequency ranges.
So yes, "guitar [combo] amps filter the lower registry" in that they are not generally intended to be as responsive in ...
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Normally questions concerning material solicitation are shut down, but I think in this case, since it applies to orchestration, which is musical practice related to composition pedagogy, it is pertinent to this forum.
First, there are two great texts concerning orchestration: Alfred Blatter's "Orchestration" and Samuel Adler's "The Study of Orchestration." ...
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As mentionned in the other answers, ear training is in a category of its own. I would advise you to start with humming major scales and using an ear training course or software. Usually the first exercise consist of discerning the lower note between two, which is exactly what you need. Then you'll be able to move a step up and try to recognise intervals, ...
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Most transcription software will automatically loop; or at least easily let you loop a section of audio such as someone making the "ooh" sound in "Today". It will do this easier than a full-blown waveform editing program.
Doing this inside transcription software will save you from having to manually edit the track, loop it, etc. These programs will allow ...
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This could be done with a piece of hardware or software called a sampler, but you should be able to accomplish the same with any waveform editor--or a combination of the two.
Essentially, you will be "cropping" the audio file in order to isolate only the tone in question, and ideally in a way that sounds the same both at the beginning and end of the ...
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Here is my feeble attempt at combining the individual instruments Register tone quality into one chart.
Note: Samuel Adler's Orchestration book did not have any of this for the Strings but that is not what I was looking for so I am satisfied. Also, I had a hard time getting everything in the image, so some instruments are placed rather randomly...
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You could add a switch which adds a higher capacitance in parallel with C3. Label its off position "low cut". The low value of C3 is what is rolling off bass response. Elsewhere, note how 10X bigger 22 nF couplers are used.
It is usual for guitar amps to roll off bass. Fairly aggressive bass roll off is needed, in particular, to achieve "chunky" distortion ...
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Preamplifier circuits make a huge difference between whether a tone is "fat" or "chunky".
In a typical distortion block, made up of several stages, there is tone filtering before, in between and after.
Some guitar preamplifiers (or preamplifier stages of amps) have multiple voicings that you can switch. Others have multiple gains to control where in the ...
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I'm actually fairly certain that's a soprano horn (long time alto player myself). I'd have a hard time guessing what mouth-piece / reed combination would produce that on a soprano, but you can get something similar on an alto with a good thick reed (4 maybe?) and a hard rubber mouth piece. You could also check out things like the spoiler here (check the ...
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