Questions tagged [pitch]
Use this tag whenever the topic involved relative or absolute tones. It can be the frequency of a note, or perhaps the comparison of a tuned instrument vs an untuned one.
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What is pitch spelling?
I've been looking around the internet for this. Surprisingly, I can't understand exactly what pitch spelling is. I know what a pitch in the musical sense means, but I can't understand what do we do ...
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What part of the sound of notes to focus on while ear training to correctly identify notes?
I am using different instruments from my Keyboard to do ear training. In practicing ear training, i have learnt from the forums here that I should focus and pay attention to the pitch of the note. ...
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Pitch notation in different countries
In the United States we use scientific pitch notation to identify each note on the piano keyboard. Each note is identified by its letter name and its octave number. So in SPN, Middle C would be C4, ...
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Auto correcting a slightly off pitch recording?
Suppose I have a recording of a live concert of a known band. We can assume that the concert was played using instruments that were in tune, in standard tuning. This was in the 1990s, so the concert ...
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How does the pitch of the reed relate to the resonant frequency of the pipe in a woodwind instrument?
I'm a wind player who is interested in constructing musical instruments, and I've been studying acoustic physics and instrument design on my own time. I haven't been able to find the answer, and (...
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For ear training what is the best sound to match pitch against? How does this work across voice range?
So I have been practicing the piano for a few months now.
I'd like to get started on ear training and interval training. Parts of it is the constant recommendation I keep finding that I need to sing ...
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Do musical instruments pitched at different frequencies play different notes when compared to each other?
I'm trying to get a better understanding how the pitch affects the note. Say if person A has a flute that is pitched to 440Hz and person B has a flute pitched to 335Hz, and they both decide to play ...
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Improve bad ear
My musical ear is terrible. It is so bad that I don't think any amount of training can get me to a reasonable level (I've tried). Is there a way that I could improve it dramatically?
I am open to any ...
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What is the length of water and the length of air in a glass needed to produce different pitches in a glass harp?
I want to create in my house a simple glass harp using household glasses. (It will not be used for performance on stage in front of people, it will be used for my own entertainment). I want to know ...
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Which wind instruments do not change pitch when blown harder?
In childhood I had a plastic toy-ish whistle with 8 holes and I learned to play many songs on it. In a few months I developed enough muscle memory to be able to play almost every song. One day I ...
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How do you decide which key signature a certain music is in by ear, from hearing it?
When I hear a song or a melodious tune, I can often figure out the relative pitches and play the tune on the piano. But I usually only play it on C major (the simplest scale for me--occasionally G ...
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Larynx feeling a bit tense when hitting a high note?
When I hit a high note or sing in my head voice, I feel my larynx/Adams apple raised up and my larynx moving/vibrating.
I find it easier to hit high notes and to sing in head voice like this.
Is that ...
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Properties of a very low pitched natural horn?
I would like to acquire a natural horn to play a very low pitched tone. I am not educated in music, so I don't even know how to describe the tone in a correct way (is it "low pitched"?), but ...
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Reference frequency computation procedure explanations
I develop a web tool to detect Harmonic Key on a < audio >/< video > node on a web page.
I found over wikipedia, the "Harmonic Pitch Class Profiles".
It's a procedure to extract the harmonic ...
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How common is to use the pitch correction (autotune) effect for vocals?
Many vocal processors I see on the market feature and advertise the pitch correction. As I understand, they use the sound input from the instrument (analog or MIDI) to decide how the note should ...
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What tuning system is the song Stand by me written in? [closed]
it always feels weird to me when I play the notes on my violin.... unless the music i have is wrong, is it possible the song is either written in a different tonality, or is it just the singer adds to ...
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Comparing variable-length pitch contours
Robert Morris defined a contour segment of a set of n pitches as a list of numbers from 0 to n, where each number corresponds to the relative height of its corresponding pitch (for instance, <...
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Am I tone deaf? How come sometimes when I listen to music I would feel that it is a little off-key even though I know it's not? [closed]
I'd listen to a studio recording of a familiar song, for example, and it would seem off at times but after a while that "off" feeling would go away.
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Piano playing matching pitch of spoken voice - is there a name for this?
This is my first post of the Music SE so apologies if this question isn't in the right place!
The other day, I was listening to a new album by electronic artist "Yimino" and I came across ...
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Easy Way to Generate Chromatic Pitch Shifts for Many Audio Samples
I have a couple of audio samples (mp3, whatever, the format doesn't matter too much) that I'm trying to pitch shift chromatically while retaining the length of the sample. There's a super easy way to ...
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How does one project well when singing in the low range of their voice?
When I sing low in my range (notes around G2-A1), I often get a really resonant, airy sound that is quiet enough that it cannot be heard when singing in a group setting. How can I make these notes ...
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reference pitch before the invention of the tuning fork [duplicate]
What was the reference pitch before the invention of the tuning fork in 1711?
Was it somewhat a task to try and get within the ballpark of referenced pitch?
Like for instance, maybe they knew what ...
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Music performing
All commercial recordings unfortunately are not in tune with concert pitch A440 tuning.
I need to correct this on a few specific MP3 recordings so that I can play an instrument along with them ...
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A second-hand guitar pitch sounds weird
I got a guitar from my friend’s son. The high E string is weird because fret no. 12 and 13 and 14 have the same pitch: F#! Furthermore, other strings have a similar problem. On the B string, fret no. ...
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Bassoon naming convention
I've been playing the bassoon for just short of two years now and I've been wondering why the standard issue bassoon is called a 'C bassoon' or 'bassoon in C' when the instrument is pitched in F.
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History of standardization of pitch and tuning: measuring waves
The velocity of a traveling wave in a stretched string is determined by the tension and the mass per unit length of the string. for a string of length cm and mass/length = gm/m. For such a string, the ...
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Why do I hear characters to keys in equal temperament? [closed]
I know, I'm not the only one who hears key characters. But I have heard time and time again that equal temperament means that all keys are equal and thus there aren't any characters to it beyond Major ...
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Highest note in Perfect by Ed Sheeran [closed]
I am very new to music theory. From the website http://www.myvocalrange.com, it states that the vocal range for the song is from is Eb4-Ab5. But when I used the app on my android phone to measure the ...
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Can a song contain pitches outside of its intended key? [duplicate]
I'm new to music theory and am self teaching so I apologise if this has already been asked but I'd be extremely grateful if you could point me in the right direction.
I'm trying to learn the best way ...
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How can we sing the same note either with chest or head?
I've seen a singing teacher being able to sing the same note either as a chest note or as a head note.
I tried to do it myself and it seems to me this can be done with the middle range notes by ...
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What feelings or words are associated to the different major scale degrees? [closed]
I'm using the Alain Benbassat method for ear training: Listening to major scale notes in the context of the scale (e.g. after hearing I-IV-V-I) and trying to hear the scale degree.
I keep reading and ...
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What makes a note “high” or “low”?
I've heard people talk about "high C" and "low C". What classifies a note as a "high" or "low" note? Also, what's above the high notes?
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Why does music sound slightly sharper when played through headphones?
Why does my music appear to very slightly rise in pitch when I switch from computer speakers to computer headphones (cheap foam, mic boom integrated)?
Ideas:
Might this be due to a pressure change ...
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Relation between size of larynx and lowest pitch and highest pitch possible
Is there any relation between the lowest pitch possible by a person and the size of the larynx?
If there exists a relation, then is there any proportion, like if the larynx is x units big/small, then ...
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Improving perfect pitch? [duplicate]
I've always had good pitch hearing but never perfect. Things like 1/32 tone change is hard to notice. I was wondering whether it can be improved (if you have some to begin with) to achieve "...
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Whether child singers know what they are doing while singing different pitches or do they do it automatically? [closed]
Many young children sing perfectly. Do they know what changes they are doing in their body to sing a high pitch or low pitch? Whether they are doing those changes automatically without knowing what ...
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Difference between pitch and key? [closed]
Say I have a song that I recorded in C major to a wav file. And then I open that file with Audacity (or some other audio program) and I increase the pitch. And as a result now the song is in E major. ...
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Pitch and Time Terms in music, parallel to Y and X axis
Does any one know of a better specification when generalizing the basic concepts of pitch and time in music? If one would map the time to an X axis and pitch to Y axis for instance. I am mostly ...
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Vocal technique: Why is Smiling Used to Sharpen Notes?
A very common technique in singing is to smile in order to brighten the tonality of a given note and raise the pitch of the note.
When it comes to raising the pitch of the note, is it the overtones ...
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Names of the staff lines and spaces
I'm very new to the world of music, literally a beginner and i've just started learning the basics of sheet music.
I'm having trouble understanding how these lines and spaces of the staff are named (...
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Algorithms for time stretching/pitch shifting
I want to change the pitch of an audio track and try to keep the highest quality possible, so when I click on processor algorithm setup, I have few options :
Standard method (time stretches and pitch ...
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Why were the frequencies for notes chosen?
I understand that the first note of each octave is twice the frequency of the first note from the octave before, but how are the frequencies for each note chosen subsequently after that. So far, I’ve ...
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Are the terms tuning and pitch the same?
The Roland TR-03 has a knob labelled with the term 'Tuning'. When I turn it to the left then the sound gets deeper. When I turn it to the right then the sound gets higher. I know the term 'pitch' ...
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Advice for singing [closed]
I feel like I generally am on pitch but still don't like my tone a lot. My goal is to be able to sing pop music at a really high level and I don't know how to make my tone more pop sounding, or just ...
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MusES musical representation system — questions on the “algebra of pitch-classes” and some conventions
This may be pretty niche... For a project I'm working on I've been reading
this paper on MusES; my goal is to find a simple musical representation system (or build my own) for a program I'm working on....
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Perfect, Absolute, Relative Pitch [duplicate]
I've seen many quizzes on "perfect pitch and do you have it"? They all play sounds and ask you to name it. But perfect pitch or not wouldn't one have to have some music training to know the designated ...
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Straying off-pitch in acapella
When I sing acapella, my voice has a tendency to creep up during the song and I usually end a verse a semitone higher than I started. Is this an issue? Are there any good methods to prevent this?
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Are there any musical pieces that experiment with the frequency - tempo relationship?
I am interested in the relationship between frequency and tempo, both of which measure the same thing (repetitions per unit time) for different ranges (units of time).
Are there any musical pieces ...
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Singing in pitch problem
I'm a guitar player and never was able to sing. Well, to be honest I never wanted or tried to sing. But for 2 months already I'm trying to start singing. The main problem is that I can't produce the ...
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Finding the frequency of a note by slowing it down
Is it accurate and reliable if I try to slow down the tempo of a video or an audio in order to correctly identify the frequency of a note with Audacity? I don't have perfect pitch which is the ability ...
