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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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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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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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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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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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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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 this (...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do seventh chords add vocal pitches not found in triads? [closed]
I was wondering what is it about seventh notes...
Fmaj7 Tall and tanned and young and lovely G7 The girl from ipanema
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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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Properties of a very low pitched natural horn?
I would linke to aquire 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 I found a ...
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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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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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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 pitch should my guitar be in [duplicate]
I just started playing guitar and I got I tuner to tune my guitar as I don't know how to do it by ear. I had to choose a pitch but I wasn't sure which one so I'm a bit confused. Can somebody please ...
