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Do you play the upbeat when beginning to play a series of notes, and then after?

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What is the fastest method to figure out which keys contain certain notes? [closed]

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Parallel fifths in the orchestra

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How did students remember what to practise between lessons without any sheet music?

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Genetic limitations to learn certain instruments

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Scaling an object to change its key

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What do different value notes on the same line mean?

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Keeping track of theme when improvising

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Music theory behind A chord in the key of G

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What Musical Instrument is this? [closed]

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Does a vocal melody have any rhythmic responsibility to the underlying arrangement in pop music?

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Why are almost all the people in this orchestra recording wearing headphones with one ear on and one ear off?

orchestra

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Writing an augmented sixth chord on the flattened supertonic

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Is it possible to transpose samples (in cents) from minor to major?

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Learning the concept of Serialism from its basics - where should I start from?

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Harmonic Series Phase Difference?

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Rests in pickup measure (anacrusis)

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Teacher help me explain this to my students [closed]

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Reading two lines in piano

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Interval of parallel 5ths in the resolution of a German 6th chord

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Opposite of “Concerto Grosso”?

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Can't bend fingertip when finger is straight

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Diatonic chords of a pentatonic vs blues scale?

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Giant Steps - Coltrane and Slonimsky

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Different pedals/effects for low strings/notes than high

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what kind of chord progession is this?

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Why does Larry Carlton think Dmajor scale when some plays Gmajor7 chord?

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Notation of last measure of a song with a pickup measure

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How can I get my left hand to sound legato when I'm leaping?

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