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| bio | website | cellio.livejournal.com |
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| location | Pittsburgh PA | |
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Apr 19 |
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Techniques for memorizing a musical idea and “saving it to paper” @UlfÅkerstedt, I've done that. :-) (I once asked to borrow a phone so I could call my own voicemail to do this.) |
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Apr 19 |
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Is this piece of renaissance music really in the locrian mode? Hi again. Did you ever get a chance to ask around? Thanks. |
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Apr 18 |
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Key signature for writing in modes other than major and minor True! (I never played with brass; we had a marching band only, and I played piano. :-) ) |
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Apr 18 |
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Key signature for writing in modes other than major and minor Yes, I wondered about that sort of thing too! Eventually I learned. :-) (While I learned to play music from a young age, I didn't actually learn any music theory until college -- at which point I realized how much I'd been missing out on.) |
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Feb 7 |
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High D on Tenor Recorder Yes, that's the hole I was talking about. I'm not a recorder player myself (I play with some), so I thought they were leaving that hole uncovered for the high notes, but maybe they're pinching it. For debugging you might see what happens if you completely uncover it and then start adjusting the pinching from there. Good luck! |
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Feb 6 |
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High D on Tenor Recorder Sorry if this sounds like "is it plugged in?" tech support, but just to check: you are fully covering the hole on the back for the lower octave and are uncovering it for the upper octave, right? |
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Jan 9 |
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How do I determine my vocal range? Ah, I see what you're saying now. I somehow misread your parenthetical note on 3 -- my fault, sorry! |
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Jan 9 |
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How do I determine my vocal range? This will give you information, but in warmups people (at least the ones I've sung with) routinely produce sound at extremes that they can't really sing. There's a difference between reaching a note stepwise like that (and when in "warmup mode", and not worrying about timing and voicing, and...) and doing it as part of a song. Any note that you can't sing with this exercise is definitely not in your range, but it doesn't follow that all notes you can sing in this exercise really are. :-) |
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Dec 19 |
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What does an arranger do? It can also go the other direction -- someone writes a melody for a singer and someone else writes a piano score, or someone writes a melody or simple score and someone else expands it into an orchestral score. Those are "arranging" too. |
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Dec 10 |
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Is there a standard range for a baritone? What is it? FWIW, the baritones in my choir get put onto either the tenor or bass line, whichever has the better-fitting tesitura for that particular song. Our mezzo-sopranos have the same issue; sometimes they sing S and sometimes A, depending. (And when we sing music that's in etiher more or fewer parts than four, more people get moved around.) |
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Dec 6 |
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How do we improve blend between male and female voices on the same part in a choir? @neilfein thanks, that's a good idea. I will attempt to procure a sample at our next rehearsal. |
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Dec 5 |
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How do we improve blend between male and female voices on the same part in a choir? Men and women sound distinct -- like the effect of two different instruments playing the same part (versus two of the same), but not as pronounced. I think it's something about timber or voice coloring or something like that. |
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Nov 2 |
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How do I stop a sensitive microphone picking up breathing when recording acoustic guitar? Or if you can't prevent it, get a second mic for your mouth (on a different track) and then use wave-cancellation to remove your breathing from the main track. :-) |
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Oct 22 |
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How do I determine my vocal range? Women should take notice of head voice vs. chest voice too. |
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Oct 3 |
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What characterises Irish drumming? Triplets! The bodhran's double-headed beater is optimized for this rhythm. |
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Sep 11 |
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Should a new band seek every possible opportunity to play or just work towards a few big shows? Varying the show is important if you play frequently for the same audience. I've seen bands that bored the heck out of people on concert #2 ("we heard this show last week"), and ones that could play weekly for a year and never bore anybody because they had (a) lots of repertoire and (b) different ways of presenting some of the same songs. Your fans will come anyway (to a point), so they're not the ones to use as gauges. It's the people who aren't yet fans that you need to reach, and they've got lots of things to do other than listen to you so you've got to keep it fresh. |
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May 30 |
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What's the difference between sixteenth century counterpoint and eighteenth century counterpoint? @ReinaAbolofia that said, universities sometimes have separate classes in 16th- and 18th-c counterpoint. (I've taken the former but not the latter.) |
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May 30 |
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What's “species counterpoint”? Are there any other types of counterpoint? Well, it's a method used by modern composers of counterpoint and taught in universities. Do we know that anybody used these methods in the renaissance/baroque periods? |
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Apr 24 |
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Will I ever be able to sing higher? +1 Even if you can't afford to take lessons long-term, a few lessons for diagnostics and some of the basics will serve you well. |
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Feb 27 |
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Keeping rhythm when performing live without a drummer +1 for visual communication. |
