Music: Practice & Theory

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Is it possible to recreate any sound you hear on a synth?
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Difference between a ride and a crash/ride cymbal
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Why is the clarinet able to play lower notes than the soprano sax?
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C in Treble or Bass Clef
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What do musicians mean when they say "learn music, not instruments"?
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What does it mean for a sound to be "dirty"?
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Can one be too old to learn how to sing?
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What is the difference between a duet and a duo?
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Which instruments to physically familiarize with to become a better orchestrator?
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What does it mean when a dotted half note has two dots instead of one?
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Can chords be played on the flute?
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Why have I never found any music written in the key of C Sharp Major?
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What is the strong-weak beat pattern in 11/16?
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Guitar strings feel electrified
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Why is the aeolian mode the minor scale?
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How to play a song without making mistakes?
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Why didn't classical music use drums?
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Do ear plugs have a big effect on ability to hear the music?
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Do I have to learn music theory to learn piano?
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Difference between minor and major pentatonic scale boxes?
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How can horns, most of which have only three buttons, play all their notes?
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Why can't notes be tuned according to a defined frequency?
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Why do some pianists occasionally play their hands at different times?
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Melody using a different scale than the bassline - what is it called?
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What note values cannot be represented in conventional notation?
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Violin or piano – which instrument makes more sense to start during Coronavirus lockdown?
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How many (major and minor) keys are there? Why?
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Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D: Why do some recordings seem to be in C sharp?
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How can you tell if a note is major or minor?
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What's left for musicians to learn if they can sight-read?
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How to play this double sharp note
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Understanding why notes are written on the other side of their stem
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How does string gauge affect a guitar's sound and playability?
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I have been practicing a song for 3 hours straight but I keep making mistakes. How can I get it right?
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Standing up acoustic guitar playing position for women
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Why is a violin so loud compared to a guitar?
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Why does Bach sometimes end with flat 7ths?
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How should I play two notes together on lines below the staff?
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Does music all over the world tend to centre on a single note which is returned to, and split up the range of pitches most fundamentally into octaves?
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Why is a doubling of frequency called an octave?
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For some learning piano at a later stage in life e.g past late 20s, what must they be aware of to make the most of it?
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Why Is Just Intonation Impractical?
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Why are so many pieces originally written for the lute now arranged for guitar?
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When we press a piano key, why does a high pitch note not run for as long as a low pitch note?
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What do you call the number written on top of the music bars?
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Do hard rock singers use distortion effects on their vocals?
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What is this note?
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Aldous Huxley and 5/4 Meter in Music Predating "Take 5"
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Small Notes in Sheet Music -- NOT grace notes -- written AFTER the main note and beamed with it
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Why did equal temperament become the standard tuning system for keyboard instruments?
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Truth behind Mozart memorizing Miserere and then writing it down later in full
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Why don't organs have weighted keys?
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Why don't organs have weighted keys?
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Why don't organs have weighted keys?
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Dynamic marking "f-p"
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I don't understand how the notes in this picture are to be played
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Rest above a note in a piano piece
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What is a B-flat major chord doing in the key of A minor?
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Left Hander forced to learn ukulele and guitar right handed
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