Music: Practice & Theory

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Alto Saxophone: tremolo using alternate fingerings
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What is the difference between accented and unaccented notes?
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Would fishing wire work for strings on an electric guitar?
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Can't feel meter when playing
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what is melodic contour?
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How to play these overly extended intervals on piano?
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Does an SSS standard Strat. sound the same as an HSS one with the 5-way switch on the 4th position?
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4/4 corresponds to 12/8 but 4/4 =/= 12/8
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Mark Levine the jazz theory versus the jazz piano book
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How to play electric guitar and bass as a duet
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What does “Moderately slow, in 2” mean at the top of a piece of music? [duplicate]
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Is it too late for me to become good at piano?
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Is it safe to place a (potentially heavy) combo amp on top of a cab?
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Which scales are used by Tom Morello?
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How to compose a successful and popular a military march? [closed]
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What are the different rhythm styles? Is that the right word?
Awarded Sep 22 at 22:19
To what extent is music theory just giving us a language to describe/break down music, or does it really have significant “scientific content”?
Awarded Sep 22 at 16:41
Chopin op. 28 no. 4 - bar 16 symbols
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What is an altered chord?
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How to modulate from minor to parallel major
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How to learn to keep time while singing? [duplicate]
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How does the staff work above/below the main lines?
Awarded Sep 19 at 12:36
Virtual MIDI Keyboard - get the output
Awarded Sep 17 at 22:25
What does this line/square bracket under the notes mean in piano?
Awarded Sep 16 at 16:15
Strumming all string but just one note. Something like Jimi Hendrix did
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Keeping rhythm when performing live without a drummer
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Note bending on harmonica
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Bass identification--No name anywhere
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What is the texture to this Prelude by J. S. Bach
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Understanding the relationship between keys, scales, and chords
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Why do we only build 7th chords on the supertonic and dominant of a major scale?
Awarded Sep 12 at 23:11
How do you identify whole-step and half-step between notes on sheet music?
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Why does an open guitar cable buzz or hum?
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Which jazz standards are best for beginners? [closed]
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What do musicians mean when they say “learn music, not instruments”?
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Muddy sound from guitar
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What does this notation (bar joining notes) mean?
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What does “Flag.” mean in orchestra score?
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Will learning trumpet damage my single reed embouchure?
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Strumming patterns and timing
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What are the correct mechanics for a guitar F barre chord
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What are “horn 5ths”?
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Why are almost all the people in this orchestra recording wearing headphones with one ear on and one ear off?
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Does anyone play 11th chords?
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Microphone stand locking knob failed - how to fix?
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Mnemonics for note names and positions in the clef
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Need help with understanding the Fifth of a chord
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Do the 'natural' chords to use in a key change if you use a different mode?
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Why does it sound muted when I play a bar chord?
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Floyd Rose string tension and action question
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What is the historic origin of the terms & textbook definitions of the natural minor, harmonic minor, & melodic minor scales?
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What does “function” actually mean in music?
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How to write triplets in 4/4 time without using a 3 on top of the notes all the time
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Harmonic progressions that contain a C7 followed by a B♭13?
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Can one be too old to learn how to sing?
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How to modify Trace-Elliot Velocette amp to make it more suitable for use with bass?
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Chord progressions : which note resolves to which note
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Tuning Acoustic from Drop D to Standard Repeatedly
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Can the melody have more than one note sounding at once?
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Buzz in the G string
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