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Jan 5 |
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How can I improve my piano accompaniments? Find sheet music with written-out left hand parts and study and play those. |
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Jan 3 |
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What does a duplicated note in a chord mean? Well, as you said, you hold the F# down (if you don't use the pedal). If there were no half note F#, only the 1/8th note, then you'd let F# go as soon as you press E, even when not using the pedal. So there is a difference for the performer, too. But yeah, whatever you do, the most important part is definitely to make it work musically! |
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Jan 3 |
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What does a duplicated note in a chord mean? No, I mean there are two lines in the music. Usually when you play the piano you play at least two lines (voices): melody and bass. In this case you have two (short) lines written on the same staff to be played on one hand (and probably still at least one more voice for the right hand). |
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Jan 1 |
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Chord Leading Question Are you talking about Palestrina style counterpoint? In that case the principles remain unchanged as far as I know. |
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Dec 31 |
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How Can I Replicate The Sound Of An Instrument? Also relevant software in this case is Pianoteq |
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Dec 31 |
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How Can I Replicate The Sound Of An Instrument? Getting it to really sound like a real instrument will be extremely difficult, and piano is probably one of the most difficult instruments to imitate given its complexity. Search for "software sound synthesis" to get a general idea of what's involved in it. |
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Dec 31 |
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What makes the 4/4 back-beat rhythm of rock-n-roll so compelling? That's possible, and it might even be that their popularity is partly due to simple meters, as it's often easier to listen. But there are also popular (or at least famous) composers, like Messiaen or Ligeti, who often don't even bother to write time signatures as pretty much every measure (when they exist) has a different, often complex, one. |
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Dec 28 |
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What makes the 4/4 back-beat rhythm of rock-n-roll so compelling? By the way, exotic time signatures are extremely common in classical music of the past 100-or-so years. |
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Dec 28 |
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Zedd - Spectrum arpeggio fingering help? If you need legato there, my first suggestion is to use the pedal, either for the whole arpeggio (changing when you hit the chord) or just for the 1/8th note. You can also do a quick finger change on the 1/8th note: press the key with 2, then with both 2 and 4, and finally only 4, then play the chord. The finger change is actually easier with 4 1 3 2 1, because the thumb lies comfortably on the same key with any other finger. |
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Dec 27 |
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Need keyboard that sustains like an acoustic piano @slim: I haven't actually measured but it does seem to be the case for many digital pianos, especially when comparing low notes with those of a grand piano. The first 10 or so seconds are good but then the volume starts to diminish a bit too quickly. |
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Dec 25 |
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Need keyboard that sustains like an acoustic piano I just want to point out a couple things which may easily go unnoticed if one just looks at documentation: First, some sample-based digital pianos emulate sympathetic resonance, some don't, and there are differences in how well it works for example together with the pedals. There are also non-sample based virtual pianos where this works as a result of physical modelling. Secondly, there are differences in sustain pedals. Some are only on-off, some are full-half-off, and some allow more variation. Thirdly, besides decay time there are also differences in how naturally the sound decays. |
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Dec 23 |
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Need keyboard that sustains like an acoustic piano Do you mean as in long-sounding notes or the sustain pedal or something else? Have you tried digital pianos? You know, the kind that even looks almost like an acoustic piano? |
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Dec 22 |
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Completely computer music: good or bad? The written notes, the sheet music. |
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Dec 22 |
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Completely computer music: good or bad? As in, you enter the score of the piece into the computer and ask it to interpret it? |
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Dec 21 |
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Free MIDI editing software with a Piano Roll view What operating system are you using? There's Rosegarden for Linux; don't know about others. |
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Dec 17 |
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How to relax my wrists? @luserdroog: Thanks for your comment! I added some reasons for the teacher thing. However, I'm not sure how to fix the alsos because, even though they're kind of their own points, they still connect to the rest of the paragraph. |
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Dec 1 |
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Chopin op. 28 no. 2 - bar 16 symbols @Luke: No, as I said, it's a guess. I do have a master's degree in classical piano performance so you could say it's an educated guess. I don't believe you could ever actually know what Chopin really intended, even if he himself wrote a detailed description, because it's practically impossible to describe every relevant detail accurately. That's the reason for my last sentence. However, an accelerando doesn't seem to make much sense here, and neither does a noticeably faster tempo so I must conclude that it must be just slightly faster or at least not slower. |
