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Finding key of a song with accidentals

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Floppy disc drive repair

repair

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Do we hear bass/baritone solo melody lines as being implicitly “on top of” the accompaniment, for harmonic purposes

harmony jazz melody latin-jazz chord-voicings

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A microphone and my Yamaha PRS E363

keyboard

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Why use 5 or more ledger lines below the bass clef instead of ottava bassa lines for piano sheet music?

piano notation sheet-music

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What kind of box for a hand crank music box

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Formula for length of a measure in minutes?

time-signatures

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What are important pieces of the following people? Also what they composed? [closed]

history classical-music

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Humming while practicing a piece - good or bad practice?

piano practice

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Chromatic Passing notes in Tchaikovsky's Harmony book

harmony voice-leading chord-voicings

modified 11 hours ago Community♦ 1

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Four part writing problem: tripled root solution. what is best practice here?

chords classical-music analysis part-writing voicing

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Slurs within slurs

notation trumpet articulation interpretation slurs

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What is the cause of low sustain or short note duration on 22nd fret on high E string for a 22-fret guitar?

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Working on a three voice counterpoint in first species [closed]

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Is there a broader term for instruments, like the gong, whose volume briefly increases after being sounded instead of immediately decaying?

terminology instruments acoustics

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Bansuri sound producing

flute bansuri

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What is the standard for notating wide arpeggios on piano?

theory piano beaming

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How to Practice Torrent Etude (Chopin, Op. 10 no. 4) measure 2

piano technique physiology

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Four part writing: How to voice diminished 7th chords?

chords classical-music analysis part-writing

modified 22 hours ago Aaron 21.7k

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What is the relationship between the 5th and minor 7th in dominant chords?

scales chord-theory

answered 23 hours ago Tim 154k

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How useful is spectrum analysis when transcribing music?

transcription

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Buzzing into the mouthpiece of a transposing instrument

practice brass mouthpieces

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Learning path advices

theory guitar scales learning blues

answered yesterday skinny peacock 7,006

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Please recommend books to understand how music works? [closed]

electronic-music musicology musical-forms

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Correct fingering for The Frail

piano fingering

answered yesterday Tim 154k

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A: PS 4: S 1: Q 2: Why does my answer continue to be “Partially Correct”?

theory chords harmony chord-progressions

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Why does the sound go away when I slightly hold a string down on my electric guitar? [closed]

electric-guitar

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Patterns for Leading Worship with Violin

violin improvisation church-music

modified yesterday Tom 3,281

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Clean and polish an old violin

violin string-instruments instrument-cleaning

modified yesterday Eliza Wilson 161

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Using mostly head voice?

voice-training

modified yesterday Community♦ 1

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How do you learn pedals?

practice learning keyboard-pedals

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How to orchestrate repeated chords in a romantic piano song? [closed]

orchestration

answered yesterday Laurence Payne 65.4k

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Quartal Harmonization Experimentation with Double Harmonic Major

quartal-harmony tetrachords

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Ways to play piano without tensing ones fingers

technique chopin

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What are the ornaments in the western music and their corresponding ornaments in Indian music?

theory keyboard classical-music ornaments indian-classical

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Improvising Chord Progressions [closed]

improvisation

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Common Time Question

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How are these 2 notes theoretically possible? [duplicate]

notation

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Notes on violin

violin fingering intonation

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Play Bansuri WITHOUT Person in Next Room Knowing

noise bansuri soundproofing

modified 2 days ago Laurence Payne 65.4k

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What is the difference between R&B/Soul music of today than the traditional R&B/Soul? [migrated]

musicology genre

modified 2 days ago Aaron 21.7k

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Bent ring finger. Problem in playing guitar

guitar

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Hand cramps on bass

bass-guitar

modified 2 days ago Core Strike 1

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Migrate from Kontakt 5 to 6 in Logic Pro X

logic-pro

modified 2 days ago Community♦ 1

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Most Boehm clarinets have 17 keys, but some have 18 or 19. What are the extra keys used for?

clarinet

modified 2 days ago PiedPiper 10.2k

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What is the full form of cont. RH solo and its meaning?

keyboard improvisation solos

modified 2 days ago PiedPiper 10.2k

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Do triply diminished or augmented intervals actually occur in common-practice music? [duplicate]

harmony intervals

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Why Should I always follow the rules of functional harmony? [closed]

chords harmony composition functional-harmony

modified 2 days ago Tim 154k

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