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May 9	comment	How to play chords on full fingerboard without looking? The two answers as of now have very much focused on position changes, but actually it seems your question is rather about voicing chords while already at the right hand position?
May 1	comment	What is the reason for pitch inflation? Good point to be made, but not an answer.
May 1	comment	Learning instrument recognition As for viola vs. violin, that's easy...
May 1	comment	Are there any practical differences between Humbuckers and Mini Humbuckers? Good summary indeed; however I'd note: the width generally has less influence on the sound than the inductance, which is affected by multiple things – the core does play a significant role, but a mini humbucker with very many tight windings may still have a larger inductance than a fullwidth one with thicker wire and less windings, in which case the mini has more output / bass.
Apr 1	comment	Stage volume levels in rehearsal and performance Except for dynamics? Why would dynamics be any different from any other aspect of your playing in this regard? Also, it is unavoidable to "make wrong notes" on most instruments, since their output depends on far too many environment variables including temperature, humidity etc. (not really an issue for electric guitars et al.) and, perhaps more importantly, always on variances in your own physical condition. A good player will be able to counteract such pertubations extremely fast, but nobody can precisely enough anticipate them.
Mar 31	comment	Stage volume levels in rehearsal and performance Great answer, but I really can't agree to house-mix-on-monitor. The "more me" syndrome is perfectly fine, because in general you need more information about your own instrument's output than the audience is supposed to hear, in order to produce a perfect result. To quote Jascha Heifetz: "I play as many wrong notes as anyone, but I fix them before most people can hear them." – this works very well on violin and many other acoustic instruments, because you naturally hear yourself both louder and particularly closer than anything else. Only a bad musician would get too quiet because of this.
Mar 8	comment	Is a violin's shape (particularly the f-holes) necessary or is it just for aesthetics? mezzo-forte's carbon designs go away even further from the traditional looks – for instance their soundholes are merely slits – yet sound IMO closer to "ordinary" wooden violins than the Luis and Clark models, which probably has to do more with material choice (wooden vs. carbon fingerboard) than with those decorations.
Mar 5	comment	How to tune crotales The common term for the sound that tells you you aren't in pitch is beat, though I have to say I much prefer "wavy sound pitch"!
Mar 5	comment	“Dull” sound when recording dry audio from an Ibanez S series, not caused by old strings? I assume you are using the Focusrite's Hi-Z inputs? High impedance is very important when direct-recording guitars with passive PUs; with too-low ohmic load their inductance makes a strongly damped low-pass filter, which always sounds in fact dull.
Mar 5	comment	Keeping a drummer in time with my keyboard Apparently he was creating a steady pulse until now, and a metronome is unlike to be able to produce a better one. Steady does not mean static, au contraire!
Mar 5	comment	Keeping a drummer in time with my keyboard "the tempo is internally quantised to a whole number of beats per minute, so it's not the drummer's fault" actually I doubt that this is the "problem", I rather think the drummer does in fact keep changing the tempo slightly. Which is not a bad thing at all, most good drummers do this, it's an essential part of the musical expression. So if you want to keep the rythm as tight as it seems to be now, don't force a click track upon him!
Mar 5	comment	Keeping a drummer in time with my keyboard The loss of performance-freedom is much more of a problem you get yourself into with click tracks than the need to have in-ear monitoring.
Nov 15	comment	What are the most common barriers to becoming proficient at playing an instrument? +1, though I'd object to a couple of details. "trying to speed up when you're not ready for it" while it's definitely bad to just force up the speed disregarding technical problems, it is good to go over the limit occasionally (if only to tell where it is, by watching yourself closely). — A metronome can IMO not teach the "sense of pulse/rythm", only ensemble practise can do that. A metronome is a great practise helper, it makes sure you notice when your playing flow is interrupted by technical problems; but musically, the mechanically fixed tempo doesn't make much sense at all.
Aug 9	comment	Dealing with different tunings on stage Both are handy things, but neither actually helps much for switching between such many different tunings.
Aug 5	comment	Do weighted keys on a keyboard lead to more expressive playing? It very likely also has to do with the sounds you use with the MIDI keyboard. Modelling an acoustic piano well is still not a solved problem; even if your playing itself is very expressive on the keyboard it will likely not sound as expressive as the same playing on the acoustic piano, certainly not if you don't use a high-quality sound module or plugin.
Jul 8	comment	Identifying meter on double bass drum You do have a better version of the track than the audio of this video? The sound quality appears to be degraded heavily by some lossy codec, that's obviously not good if you want to figure out fast figures correctly. But I honestly can't hear anything really complicated at all, certainly not at 1:34 where it's indeed just plain 16ths. The whole groove is just played a little laid-back, which is of course rather unusual for a double bass drum passage.
Jul 3	comment	Trying to get that tube sound from a gainclone amp Good question, but certainly better suited for electronics.SE.
Jun 21	comment	Recommendations for sheet music organising software under GNU/Linux The sort of canocical way to do this in a GNU environment is to store the sheets as well-annotated (and thus greppable) Lilypond code. Then you can search etc. using the standard Unix tools.
Jun 11	comment	Can I easily defret a normal guitar to play it as a fretless guitar, or do I need to alter it further? Roundwound bass strings may be thick, but they still chew up the wood after a while, especially if it's something softer than ebony. I believe the treble strings, much like flatwounds, are less of a problem in that account.
Jun 11	comment	Effects of keeping an amplifier in the car @luserdroog tube amps have to power up for the simple reason that the cathodes need to heat up to the temperatures where they can emit electrons easily; this has to do about nothing with the pressure or the glass. The glass is of course sensitive to strain caused by temperature gradients, but those only happen at rapid temperature changes. In a car, the temperature usually changes slowly enough so that every part of the tube will have the same temperature at each time, save for variations much smaller than they are in normal operation of the amp.