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| location | Leamington Spa, United Kingdom | |
| age | 39 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 8 months |
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I play guitar on my own, at open mic nights, and as part of a weekly get-together for guitarists, and as part a reggae band, for fun.
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May 8 |
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Learning how to be a good rhythm guitarist before becoming a lead guitarist, where to start? Yeah, research time. But I will add a few words anyway. |
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May 3 |
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Amplifier has no aux in, what alternatives can I use? The manual is just giving you examples of things that the line level signal might come from. Line level is line level. The input doesn't care what's on the other end of the wire. It only cares that the peak voltages are within line level range. |
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May 3 |
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Amplifier has no aux in, what alternatives can I use? It just means you shouldn't connect the speaker output from an amp - because it'll be too loud a signal. Line-out into line-in is fine. The Tascam doesn't know what device the line out came from! |
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May 2 |
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Amplifier has no aux in, what alternatives can I use? What do you want to connect to your amp, other than a guitar? |
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May 1 |
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Music sheet notation explanation (Alto sax) Glissando. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols |
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May 1 |
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How to practice endurance to be able to play boogie woogie pieces? Yes. This advice about tension applies equally to the piano music.stackexchange.com/questions/10402/… |
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Apr 29 |
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Reference tuning pitch Thanks @Tim - I couldn't edit my comment so I deleted it and posted the fix above. |
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Apr 29 |
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Reference tuning pitch It's very unlikely that CDs would play back at the wrong speed (except on specialist hardware designed to do that). Vinyl and tapes, yes - they ran off mechanical motors that could very much vary in speed. But not CDs |
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Apr 26 |
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Learning instrument recognition I think this is a fine question. |
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Apr 15 |
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Improvisation on Major and relative minor scales The short answer is, try it and see. If you like what you hear, it's good. If you don't like what you hear, it's bad. |
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Apr 12 |
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Should the soloist watch the conductor? Suggest you delete this and add it as a comment to @ecline6 's answer, if that was your intention. |
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Apr 12 |
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If Irish button accordions are typically B/C how and why are they often played in D or G? @gingerbreadboy if only I could play as well as I talk about playing... |
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Apr 10 |
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Delay / Distortion pedals for electric violin with bridge sensor (Schertler)? Consider making your question much more specific than "please give me some general advice on the subject". As it stands it risks being closed as "not a real question". See the FAQ. |
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Apr 9 |
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When we sing loudly does volume change or pitch? @ToddWilcox - subtle complications are probably not helpful to the OP, though. They're struggling to understand the basics. |
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Apr 1 |
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What gauge strings should I use for A# tuning on an electric guitar The general answer for any tuning is here :music.stackexchange.com/questions/7877/… so the question is effectively a duplicate. |
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Mar 26 |
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What are the ABRSM graded examinations, and why would one want to take them? Confused about these comments: the answer says that you wouldn't join the MU after doing grade 8. However I bet there's professional rock musician MU members who couldn't pass any exam that requires reading a score |
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Mar 18 |
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Perfect pitch and tuning forks It might be worth clearly demonstrating that you are tuning though. By analogy, when you take a driving test, you make big head movements every time you look in the mirror. "Wouldn't it be more impressive to look in the mirror just with small eye movements?" -- maybe, but the tester needs to know for sure you're looking. |
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Mar 18 |
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Perfect pitch and tuning forks Nobody at an audition should care how you tune your instrument, as long it actually is in tune. |
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Mar 15 |
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Which diploma, ATCL or dipABRSM music.stackexchange.com/questions/5215/instrument-grade-exams - the grade system is widely recognised in many countries. Not including, apparently, the USA. Where they are recognised, they are so endemic to formal music education (as opposed to the no-sheet-music kind) that we find it hard to imagine having to explain. |
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Mar 15 |
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What is the proper technique for a glissando on piano? I see tips suggesting using the back of the hand, using the nail. The thumbnail for downward runs, a fingernail for upward runs (right hand). |
