Questions tagged [piano]
For questions about music written for piano, playing the piano, maintenance of a piano, or other general questions about pianos.
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Learning Piano/Keyboard VS Singing VS Beatboxing
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I'm interested in learning 3 skills: Piano/Keyboard, Singing, Beatboxing.
I can devote around 2-3 hours daily. I want to "self-learn" (i.e. without tutor). I want to reach moderate ...
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Eighth-note missing from score?
In this version of sheet music "The Rain" by Joe Hisaishi, how should I read this line?
It seems that voice y in measure 42 is missing one eighth note (between eighth note B in treble clef ...
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What is the perfect age for a child to start piano lessons?
My son of 3.5 year old, and my daughter of 1.5 year old, are both showing good ear, musical capabilities and intetests. I am a 19 years experienced guitarist and I am about to start music lessons for ...
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Can someone identify this song? [closed]
I try to find the name of a song, the only clue I have but could be wrong: title from some group like toto.
https://sndup.net/x3m7/
Thanks for all
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Chords building blocks
Are chords the same building blocks as notes in a song? Like do every song consist of certain chord progressions? You can reharmonize a song by changing the chord progression can't you? But you can't ...
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After move, baby grand always sustained notes, pressed or not pressed
After moving and assembling the baby grand by regular furniture movers, I played the piano and found that notes are sustained with or without pressing on the sustain pedal.
I believe they assembled ...
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Piano what is this symbol name and meaning? [duplicate]
What is this symbol name and meaning (symbol above the red line) - the line travel from Bass clef through Treble clef, then go back to Bass clef?
It seems that this symbol is not listed in musical ...
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Transposing Piano Accompaniment for Vocalist - When to Change Clefs
I have been transposing some voice + piano accompaniment music originally written for a mezzo-soprano or alto into a key for a tenor down (usually by a third or a fourth) and have found the resulting ...
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How to notate 3 quarters framed by eighths?
Context: I recently transcribed a Piano solo piece in MuseScore 4. It was based on a different person's transcription that used ♩ = 70 as tempo marking. My transcription initially used the same tempo. ...
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Duration of a note in Moldau score
Let's consider the piano version of Moldau/Vltava from Smetana, the first two measures for example:
What should be the duration of the blue circled notes, as expressed in units of an eighth note:
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Hi, how can one know the progression of a song by ear using primary and secondary chords thanks [duplicate]
How can I know where to go after grasping chord 1
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Skip Beat in a Measure
Can we skip some/a beat(s) in a measure in music notation?
In the picure, I want to skip that quarter rest so we can play directly the next c note?
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Rachmaninoff C# minor prelude: towards the end, staff lines are joined together, and there are two end markings
I'm studying Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor and towards the end, the staff lines are joined together, with two ending lines.
Do I need four hands? :)
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Debussy Prelude "le vent dans la plaine" - Practice tricks
I will soon try to start another prelude by Claude Debussy. So far I played:
Danseuses de Delphes
Voiles
Des pas sur la neige
La fille aux cheveux de lin
La cathédrale engloutie
Now I want to start ...
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Misty - Rupert Austin Fingering
I'm taking on the task of learning this piece and I'm not too familiar with jazz chords or fingerings. Can someone help with the following passage, or at least give tips on how to figure out proper ...
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How to play notes with evenness
I am learning to play the piano and while playing pieces, I generally find that I tend to hit some notes louder than others despite me wanting to have them at the same dynamic level. How can I develop ...
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Grand piano positioning to compromise between acoustic and good piano care
After owning a digital then an upright piano, I am now considering the possibility of acquiring a baby grand piano (166 cm / 5'5" according to the manufacturer's website). But since a grand is, ...
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Slight emphasis on a note (soft accent)
The attached image is the first couple of bars from the James Bond theme – No Time to Die:
The notes in yellow sound to me like they are played with a slight accent/emphasis, and I'm trying to find ...
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Arpeggiated chords: which order to play, and does it matter if it's right or left hand?
In an answer here Carl Witthoft says the default is that arpeggiated chords are played from lowest to highest. Does this convention apply to both hands? E.g. in Measure 8 of the 2nd movement of this ...
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Sharp getting erased without notation in Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor
On the sixth measure of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor there is a second chord that appears to be D#-E-D#. I didn't think that this sounded quite right, and in all the videos I've watched it's ...
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Which two pedals to use for the marking "due pedale"?
In the piano piece "Rumänisches Charakterstück, Op.44" on page 8 there is the marking pp along with "due Pedale".
Which two pedals out of the three available are meant to be used ...
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Same note on two staves in a piano score
These are bars 56–59 in Patrik Pietschmann's arrangement of Hans Zimmer's "Interstellar Main Theme"
How does one deal with the Es that appear in both staves?
The first two bars I can play ...
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How to play a measure with no chord notation above it?
When a measure doesn't have any chord notation above it, but its preceding measure has a chord notation, should I keep the keys of the previous measure chord pressed when playing the measure which has ...
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Is this professional pianist respecting the score of Dance of the Fairy Dragée
As one could see from the score of Dance of the Fairy Dragée, tranposed for piano, this is only starting at measure 5th than the staccato begins.
But if we listen to this professional pianist (who ...
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How to compose like Liszt? [closed]
I've been trying to compose like him for a long time but I've got no idea where to start. What are some of his most used chord progressions? Info like this would help.
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Fingering - Don't Stop Me Now - Peter Bence
I've been working on a new piece and I can't figure out the fingering for the circled measure attached below. Can someone help me? (The tempo is 180 for the quarter note, so it has to be a fingering ...
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Piano Notation "T"?
I'm no high-end performer so probably won't matter but just curious what is this 'T'?
Second image has some notes of the first page, I supose the little schematic of the structure clarifies the T.
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F#5 or Fx5 in La Campanella m. 128?
In MuseScore version 3.6.2 I see it being F##5 indeed, but the next note in line is also F##, but looking into how it looks like in Piano visualiser that first one must be a mistake.
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What exactly are the different staccatos and are there any examples? [duplicate]
I am pretty new to piano and am starting to work on Moonlight Sonata. (I just finished Alfred's Level 1 book for context).
My book (Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Alfred Masterwork Edition) says there are ...
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Trouble reading sheet music - identifying sharp note [duplicate]
I have watched this YouTube video and wanted to play it myself. I downloaded the sheet music from his description. In the following image I have marked the first incident where I wasn't sure about the ...
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What are the rules i need to follow when writing for the piano?
Okay so i recently discovered writing in 4 part harmony and now i'm really confused, i saw people say that you don't need to follow the same rules for piano. But, are there any rules or guidelines for ...
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Multiple Voices in "Rock" Piano
I generally get the idea of "multiple voices" in music such as explained in this question and answer.
Is it also correct that in modern (e.g. non-classical) music multiple voices are used to ...
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Rubato where there is no indication of rubato
Unless I'm crazy (not impossible, tbh) every performance of Messiaen: Prelude No. 7, Plainte calme that I have heard does not seem to follow the sheet music.
There's a passage where the time signature ...
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Interpreting guitar strumming on a piano
I play the piano-keyboard, and I must say I envy guitar players, specially when it comes to strumming techniques. It seems inevitable to compare the two instruments. I think the strumming technique in ...
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identify a piano etude by music score of initial bars [closed]
Please help identify a piano etude from the below score. Conventional apps (Shazam, SoundHound) seem to fail.
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Per Mozart piano concerto 21
Explain the infinity symbol w/ sharp above and flat below and sometimes fingering is printed? Is this similar to a trill of ascending and descending half steps?
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Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor (posth.) note mistake
In Chopin's C sharp minor Nocturne (no. 20, op. posth.) measure 15 the forth and last notes of the left hand appear to be B in every music sheet that I can find online:
However, it seems that all the ...
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Ave Maria - Gounod Arr. Gerlitz piano fingering right hand
I am trying to learn this piece and towards the end there are some chords that I’m trying to find an … elegant? Efficient? Fingering for in the right hand.
Here is a picture.
I have highlighted the ...
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piano jazz using rootless chords in common progressions
Can one use rootless chords along with rooted chords when constructing common chord progressions.
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Clair De Lune - Un poco mosso section rhythm problem
I count the beats as 1 o let, 2 o let, 3 o let, instead of 123456789. For the duplets, I count them as 1 o and let, with a very fast 'and'. I am now on the un poco mosso section and don't know the ...
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On piano, can one tell aurally whether a slur is written or not?
If you hear a piece on the piano, can you objectively tell where the slurs are written? Sometimes it feels hard to tell the difference when there are slurs or not written in a passage. Is there an ...
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Help with a melody from a chord progression on piano [closed]
Right now I have a chord progression I like (D min, 1st inversion A min, C maj, 1st inversion A min) and want some good tips for making a melody.
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Is using transpose function on a keyboard a bad idea? [duplicate]
I have a digital keyboard that has a transpose function which can shift the pitch up or down by the number of semi-tones I want. I hear some say that most good keyboardists frown up using the ...
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Does the rhythm act as a catch-all category in variation changes [closed]
Isn't rhythm by itself a categorical term in theme and variations
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1564 (I V vi IV) chord progression for Minor
Many of I-V-vi-IV chord progression examples are C major. My question is Minor. For example of Am key signature, the 1564 is Am , Em, F, Dm; however, I-V-vi-IV should mean major-major-minor-major. May ...
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My hands don't move naturally on the piano because I'm constantly trying to figure out which notes to play
I've been practicing piano for a few years as a self learner. When I start a new piece, I am always struggling to play the correct notes. After much practice and I start memorizing which notes to play,...
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Is it natural to struggle playing a new piano piece with slow progress in the beginning? [closed]
I'm a self learner who had been playing consistently for about a year and half and then since then off and on for about a year, bringing us to present. I just want to know if my struggles are natural, ...
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What are these two right-hand chords in Schubert's Piano Sonata No 20 D 959?
I am not quite understanding the chord progression and the chord harmonies of the following two beats marked in the red rectangle.
Especially two right-hand chords. They sound very inharmony and ...
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How do I remember where each note is on the piano if I looked at the sheet music?
I am learning the piano by myself and I want to remember where each note is. I preferably use do re mi fa sol la si(ti) as the musical notation, if that is necessary, as I could probably only remember ...
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When should the sustain pedal be used in Debussy's Clair de Lune, given the fast tempo?
In recordings of Clair de Lune, I can hear that the sustain pedal is used almost throughout the entire piece, including in the middle part, which is played at a rather fast tempo. Since the sustain ...
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