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What are the baton movements for different time signatures?
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What do these French performance directions in string parts say?
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What is the difference between upstrokes and downstrokes while strumming a guitar?
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Difference between Baritone and Euphonium
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A big "1" in the middle of a piano grand staff
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F# major vs Gb major?
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What is the best way to play a chord larger than your hand?
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Why do the Fourier components of a piano note shift away from the harmonic series?
Awarded Jul 13 at 9:07
How can I significantly improve my hand independence on piano?
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Why so many repeats in classical music?
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Is there piano notation for finger sustained notes (as opposed to pedal sustain)?
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Is there a mathematical formula or a list of frequencies (Hz) of notes?
Awarded Apr 9 at 4:58
Why is the guitar tuned like it is?
Awarded Mar 29 at 14:48
Do classical pieces sound different today than the originals due to temperament?
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What is a transposing instrument?
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How to bend and release without flicking the other strings?
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What happened to Jazz in 1980?
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Why is the relationship between frequency and pitch exponential?
Awarded Dec 31, 2023 at 20:41
Why does this note have a stem pointing up and another pointing down?
Awarded Dec 31, 2023 at 8:58
What is this quadruple-dotted X above the staff?
Awarded Dec 8, 2023 at 13:55
Violin - Can double stops be played when the strings are not next to each other?
Awarded Nov 15, 2023 at 13:37
The notes outside the major scale form a pentatonic scale
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Is B♯ to F an impossible interval?
Awarded Oct 14, 2023 at 16:21
Why does the scale have seven (or five) notes? Why not six?
Awarded Oct 4, 2023 at 1:47
Why is music theory built so tightly around the C Major scale?
Awarded Sep 23, 2023 at 21:27
Learn piano one hand at a time or simultaneously?
Awarded Aug 30, 2023 at 23:56
What is this "┌─3─┐" notation called? What is the count?
Awarded Aug 28, 2023 at 9:07
Can one use a whole note to span a full 5/4 measure?
Awarded Aug 24, 2023 at 13:55
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor breaks the "no parallel octaves" rule?
Awarded Aug 4, 2023 at 23:28
How is it that 12 eighth notes fit in a measure labeled as common time?
Awarded Jul 11, 2023 at 10:51
dmitri shostakovich vs Dimitri Schostakowitch vs Shostakovitch
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Why is C the base note of standard notation and keys?
Awarded Jun 24, 2023 at 15:35
What techniques do you use to read sheet music faster
Awarded Jun 14, 2023 at 16:17
Is there a legitimate reason why a C-Clef could ever be used in piano music?
Awarded May 28, 2023 at 22:50
Why “delta” chords?
Awarded May 27, 2023 at 12:27
What is the preferred musicology term for "classical music"?
Awarded May 22, 2023 at 15:18
What is this 'degree' symbol on a roman numeral chord?
Awarded May 18, 2023 at 23:20
What is the meaning of this New Year's Resolution joke using music sheet notations?
Awarded May 16, 2023 at 21:20
What did ancient cuneiform notation look like, and how did it work?
Awarded Apr 13, 2023 at 8:57
What is the difference between portamento and glissando?
Awarded Apr 2, 2023 at 5:32
Why does the scale have seven (or five) notes? Why not six?
Awarded Mar 27, 2023 at 22:03
Is it true that classical musicians are not rhythmical?
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Is there a way to rehearse being in a stressful performance situation?
Awarded Mar 21, 2023 at 19:11
How does the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata relate to moonlight?
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Is 41/16 a proper time signature?
Awarded Feb 16, 2023 at 23:25
How to play a measure with no chord notation above it?
Awarded Feb 8, 2023 at 10:19
Is a high A in the key of D flat still flat?
Awarded Feb 2, 2023 at 15:50
What's this w-shaped ebony item from my grandma's violin case?
Awarded Feb 1, 2023 at 17:48
Why is the lowest note on the piano an A?
Awarded Jan 25, 2023 at 3:06
Difference between half note and quarternote with quarter rest
Awarded Dec 11, 2022 at 0:49
What is the reason a given note can have different "sounds"
Awarded Nov 17, 2022 at 3:08
Why the difference between double and electric bass fingering?
Awarded Nov 16, 2022 at 4:45
Chopin: marche funèbre bar 15 impossible place
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Piano with two treble clefs on grand staff
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On a guitar, what keys correspond to different capo positions?
Awarded Oct 4, 2022 at 15:30
What do the terms E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4 actually mean?
Awarded Oct 1, 2022 at 8:18
Notes not adding up to time signature, with weird white oval note
Awarded Sep 22, 2022 at 16:46
Unknown notation - thick horizontal bars between notes
Awarded Sep 21, 2022 at 13:17
Why do I sound so horrible?
Awarded Aug 5, 2022 at 22:56
What do you have to do to sound like you're improvising when you're actually reading from sheet music?
Awarded Jul 8, 2022 at 17:36
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