Mark Lutton

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May 4	comment	Mathematical basis for Ionian mode as most natural? Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
May 3	comment	strange fingering in moonlight sonata Cue the discussion of the composer's pedal instructions....
Apr 21	comment	What is this beat and why is it so popular It makes me think of "Twelfth Street Rag" by Euday Bowman.
Apr 15	comment	Can all notes be produced using only the trumpet's valves? You can remove the mouthpiece and play into it and get all the notes and everything in between, even if it's not a very nice sound, and you are buzzing with the lips. I played the tuba, not the trumpet, and it was a long time ago, but one of the first things I noticed was that I could think of it either as the instrument producing the note and the lips providing a "setting" as to which note, and jumping from one note to the next when tightening them, or the lips producing the note and the instrument amplifying it and cleaning up the tone.
Jan 6	comment	Am I able to repair the pegs on my violin? Get some Peg Dope.
Nov 15	comment	Musical Aids to Memorize Intervals If you don't know "Also Sprach Zarathustra" do you know the theme from the movie "2001, A Space Oddysey"?
Nov 13	comment	Tips on counting and playing odd time signatures Be careful not to count "One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Sev, En."
Sep 5	comment	How do you actually practice playing an electronic keyboard? But note: A harpsichord feels VERY different and needs a delicate touch. I don't know of any electronic keyboard that feels like a harpsichord. If you want to learn to play one, you are going to have to find a real harpsichord.
Aug 20	comment	Why is the last semiquaver outside the last triplet of the measure? Clair de Lune = Moonlight = Chiaro di Luna = Luz de la Luna = Mondschein. Would it surprise you to find out that they call it "Mondschein" in Germany and "Clair de Lune" in France?
Aug 11	comment	Could a group of musicians play a new piece by sight-reading on first attempt? Sinatra must have liked "that long, long, it's long" because he did it in live performances too. I can't say whether he DID sight-read the first recording, but he had the ability. And it's not unprofessional to do that. In fact it's VERY professional to do it when necessary.
Aug 11	comment	Could a group of musicians play a new piece by sight-reading on first attempt? Anecdote: Listen to Frank Sinatra's recording of "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)". He sings it once through, but it's written with a first ending back to the beginning, with the pickup note and the word "it's" ("It's quarter to three...") The song ends "the road, that long, long road." Frankie sings "the road, that long, long, it's long." Was he seeing the music for the very first time as he sang it for the recording? Yes, musicians can play or sing it on sight, no rehearsal, one take, and get a hit record.
Aug 11	comment	Musical notation/tablature for isomorphic instruments One exception is all it takes to be unequal: 4 4 4 3 4. Not isomorphic.
Aug 6	comment	Do weighted keys on a keyboard lead to more expressive playing? The acoustic piano will have limitations too. It takes a great deal of effort to regulate the action and voicing so that E responds exactly as F does, and it doesn't take long to get out of regulation. I doubt that you can play E and F and get them within 1% of each other on a typical acoustic piano.
Jun 27	comment	Are there names for referring to the top or bottom numbers in a time signature? In musical notation, a metronome marking is always specified as "M.M." (for "Maelzel's Metronome") followed by a picture of a note, an equals sign and a number. The note may or may not be a quarter note. 6/8 time is usually 2 beats per measure, not 6. Dance music is almost always either 4/4 (quarter note beat), 3/4 (quarter note beat), 2/4 (quarter note beat) or 6/8 (dotted quarter note beat).
Jun 22	comment	Does an implied tie exist What instrument? Clarinet? Harp? Pipe organ?
Apr 25	comment	Percussion notes in the vocals Sometimes you'll see the notes at different positions in the staff, indicating approximate pitches or the general inflection of the speaking voice. All of the spoken lines in Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" are notated this way.
Mar 11	comment	Can a scale contain both a sharp and a flat note? A general rule: a scale has the letters in order, with none repeated. If you use G - A - Bb - C - D - Eb - Gb - G you have to keep putting a flat or natural in front of the G. Also, you can't have a key signature with both G natural and G flat in it.
Dec 22	comment	Organ technique for pianists Organmaster Shoes are one very good brand.
Dec 1	comment	is there a modulation in boogie-woogie? I don't think so, because you don't get the sense that you want to rest on F or G. Using an arrow -> to indicate that a chord "pushes" toward another one and a comma to indicate a restful chord, the blues is heard as C, F -> C, G -> C or C, F -> C, F -> G -> C. Tonicization would be C, D7 -> G, G7 -> C. Modulation: C -> F -> G7 -> C, F -> G7 -> C, G -> A7 -> D. (That's a "truck driver's gear change"; see www.gearchange.org.)
Nov 26	comment	Is there any real-world difference between time signatures such as 4/4 and 8/8? In the 1940's, piano Boogie-Woogie was also called "8 To The Bar", because the pulse was eight very rapid beats, not 4 or 2. All of the beats but the first were equal in force.