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Do I have to learn music theory to learn piano?

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Advantage of 7-note based theory over 12-note alternative

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Why can't notes be tuned according to a defined frequency?

guitar piano tuning just-intonation

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How can horns, most of which have only three buttons, play all their notes?

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Guitar strings feel electrified

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Why is the 5th stronger than the 1st in guitar spectrum?

guitar acoustics

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When you read sheet music do you read the notes or the intervals?

sheet-music sight-reading

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Is it necessary to practice staying in time while improvising?

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Synthesizer: why playing a second time the same note shut down the first one?

midi synthesizer synthesis

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Why is this chord notated as an Emin7 when it has no Es in it?

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Can you change some composition I wrote to whatever music you want just by changing the timbre of the instruments?

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Why is a major key called major?

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Agreeing on the key of a (cover) song as a band

key band

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Notation that means “same as previous four?”

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Cannot seem to discover what scale is used in a sample (Dm F Em D♯)

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How does the tonic establish itself in a melody?

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These two phrases use exactly the same notes, but one sounds major, the other minor. Why is that?

harmony arpeggios

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Why are double stops rarely written for double basses, compared to other strings?

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why is guitar music written one octave higher?

notation

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Songs with capo on only some chords

guitar chords capos

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Can Schubert songs only be fully appreciated by German speakers? [closed]

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Why can't wearing both ear muffs (whether passive or active) and earplugs simultaneously yield more than 36 dB noise reduction ratio (NRR)?

health hearing ear-protection

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Why is 'Narrative Music' not considered 'complete/absolute'?

history classical-music

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Two angled lines in a study score

theory notation

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How to synthesize non-pitched sounds? How pitched is a sound in general?

synthesis psychoacoustics

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Can a chord be consonant, but unstable?

theory

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How to think of chord extensions when soloing over chords?

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What does this notation mean?

notation

answered 8 hours ago BobRodes 8,381

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How to typeset a chord with variable note length in Lilypond?

lilypond

modified Jun 17 at 5:52 Glorfindel 2,566

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Why do major and minor triads sound different both harmonically and melodically?

chords harmony intervals melody

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Incorrect Placement of an Accidental?

accidentals

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Do Roman Numerals for a chord progressions change capitalization when played in a different key than the original?

chords roman-numerals

answered Jul 9 at 12:43 phoog 4,664

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What mode/scale is a minor scale with an added flat root note?

terminology modes

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How do I find a guitar pedal that shuts off output below a set volume?

electric-guitar effects-pedal electronics

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How do I know what patterns to play under a melody?

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Different waveforms on oscilloscope and Audacity

audacity

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Do first violins take precedence over second violins for the main melody or the higher pitched part?

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answered Jun 16 at 19:42 Paul Smith 21

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How to write after a score wih Lilypond

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What frequency ranges are most instruments in

frequency instrument-range

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Does the piano really originate as a combination between drumming and guitar?

guitar piano drums history

answered Jul 8 at 22:42 DrGecko 71

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Are rootless jazz chords truly rootless?

harmony jazz

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What's a good approach to learning bass guitar without having a bass guitar amp?

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Does the root note fall on the same place using CAGED system on guitar?

guitar scales

modified Jun 20 at 21:33 John Belzaguy 4,433

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How can our ears decide which pitch a sound is, if it has a lot of overtones?

chords overtones

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Problems with playing high notes (17-20th fret on e-string)

electric-guitar intonation action

modified Jun 25 at 6:39 Glorfindel 2,566

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Yamaha SY99 floppy disk drive broken. Can I use something else?

midi synthesizer

modified Jun 22 at 15:14 Albrecht Hügli 19k

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How many G7 chords are there, and when to use which?

chords chord-theory

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What do these squiggly arrows mean? [duplicate]

sheet-music arpeggios

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