Questions tagged [technique]
For questions about ways to use one's instrument or voice precisely to produce a desired musical effect.
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Anchoring or moving thumb at the back of the neck? Guitar question
I am learning Acoustic Guitar. Let's take spider exercise at the first four frets as an example. Some people say that, your thumb should stay still at the back, being around at the level of second ...
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How do you do percussive strumming with melody lines on guitar?
During a performance of Old Man, Neil Young strummed the guitar while having melody lines as well. He did the percussive strumming while also playing a melody with his guitar.
How do you do that?
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Singing while playing a complex or off-beat guitar melody [duplicate]
So far, I am able to strum guitar chords and do regular fingerpicking/arpeggios while singing. However, I still struggle to sing while playing complex guitar riffs (compared to the vocal melody).
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When given a wide passage such as the left-hand part in bars 20-21 - should my fingering seek to avoid the thumb on black keys?
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Self teaching myself the piano
No warmup routine as of yet
Asked if I could just use the pieces I am working on for warmup
Was told yes; just choose the most difficult passage and focus on ...
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Mandolin restringing
I am wondering how to change mandolin strings? I know, I know, YouTube is my friend for this, but it seems to me, if I leave the slack they tell me to leave, (pull back 1 fret,) I do pull back a fret, ...
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Can you perform harmonics on wine glasses?
Playing harmonics on a stringed instrument is an acknowledged technique which involves placing a finger at a certain point on the string to damp a node that would otherwise sound.
Is there a ...
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How to swap tune to blend with the music's without drifting [duplicate]
I am a bass and also singer
Sometimes when singing something deep like bass and the likes, the music's tune will go higher and higher compelling me to swap to something less deep like treble. I ...
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Trouble playing guitar in the day
Might try here but I’m having trouble with hand sync and this is going to sound crazy but only in light or daytime… my sync seems better in darkness or completely dark and I cant seem to get that same ...
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Can I Learn Ear Training Without the Ability to Audiate?
I asked a question a couple days ago along the lines of "can I become a pro musician if I can't audiate?", which was rightly met with some opposition. I appreciate the responses I got on ...
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Violin becomes a spring by the force of my jaw (without me pushing extra)
I'm teaching myself the violin. I'm a guitar player for many years so I'm (at least I believe) going kind of fast with progress. I started learning without a shoulder rest for about two months and on ...
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Piano voice guitar sheet music [duplicate]
Got a chord in music b c e b with square shaped bracket next to it. I tried playing it but finger can’t stretch to other b octave higher. It is on a P V G sheet music from Sound of Music.
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How to bridge fifths across 3 strings on violin/viola
I'm familiar with bridging a finger across 2 strings to play fifths and all of the weirdness that happens to get that in tune (fingers, it turns out have a certain roundness). I'm also aware that it ...
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What are some effective warmups/excercices for open throat singing before actual singing or performance?
Soo, I am studying open throat singing to learn natural vibrato & control tension on my riff and runs/melisma...
I don't know but when I try to do some open throat singing of which I followed on ...
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How to control riff and runs effortlessly? (Singing) (I'm bad at breath control)
Soo, I can do riff and runs nicely, cleanly separated but has bad control and very bad breath control (i think), i have tensions all over my body but not too much. Soo, I feel like I'm not prepared ...
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How will and how to use singing vibrato help riff and runs especially with vocal runs note separation?
Soo I'm learning vibrato and I can do riff and runs but sometimes had bad separation.. I'm thinking that maybe somehow learning vibrato will help me but will it actually and how?
I'm learning from ...
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Piano fingering for left hand
What's in your opinion the best fingering for left hand:
Tempo: 180
This is m. 12 of Attack On Titan Opening 1 - "Guren No Yumiya", from MuseScore.
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If whistle voice = super high headvoice, then can I use high falsetto to learn whistle note?
Soo I want to learn whistle tone, and I can do falsetto but not headvoice.
I heard people say that whistle is super high headvoice, can I use falsetto instead in place of headvoice to learn whistle ...
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What's an easier way to separate the notes in a riff and runs?
So, I'm learning riff and runs and memorized major and minor scale.
I happen to have a problem that my riff and runs are messy, so I followed this tutorial:
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Learning Piano/Keyboard
I started 1 year ago learning keyboard -the method being Full chord with prominence for melody note with right hand , and left hand with root note ( with fixing last finger on tonic note ). For eg: if ...
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How do I play this chord? [duplicate]
How would one play this chord? I am 6'2" and have medium to large hands but there is no way I can reach from the E to G#. Is there a trick to it?
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Is there a way to sing actual clear, nice two notes? (Polyphonic overtone singing)
So I found this two video
On polyphonic overtone singing,
I'm just wondering is there a way to actually sing good two notes that doesn't ...
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Forearm soreness playing constant octaves
I have been playing piano approximately one year. The music genre that I play (merengue) has the right hand almost exclusively playing in the octave position. Below is a short clip of me playing along ...
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Anyone knows how this rare "angelic" headvoice/falsetto is achieved? (Edit) [closed]
So I randomly scrolled Youtube and found this cover:
At 1.06, I'm wondering..
how is this "angelic" head voice achieved? If it's just airy/breathy head voice, ...
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What is this vocal ornament called?
There is a vocal technique used in this audio clip that sounds Arabic and melismatic on the lyric “smile”. The notes go up from G3 to G#3 and back to G3 again. Some say it is a mordent but I think the ...
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How can I play 16th-note hi-hats at 150 bpm?
Is it possible to play a beat of 16th-note hi-hats with bass drum on 1 and 3, and snare on 2 and 4, at 150 bpm? I.e.:
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A song I'm trying to ...
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How to pick with thumb but without thumbnails?
I am trying to play the bass strings without thumbnails because I like the sound. I trimmed my thumbnails to minimum so they don't get in the way.
It's surprisingly hard to play such that the strings ...
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Performance directions for a vocal technique
I'm in the process of transcribing
Just Like Heaven by The Cure from audio to notation.
The lead singer Robert Smith has a vocal style where he doesn't seem to hold a pitch for long before sliding to ...
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What are tone colors and how can you produce different tone colors when playing the piano?
I have heard that some tones are more mellow whereas others are brighter. However, I was wondering what is the difference between these two types of tones on the piano. Although I have heard that ...
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Pulling off into or over next string
When performing a pull off on guitar, is there a consensus on whether you should pull off into the next higher string or "across" it? The former does not require muting that string with the ...
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How do you deal with longer right hand middle finger when playing classical guitar? [closed]
My right hand technique is quite poor, and middle finger keeps touching the string below.
Should I find the ideal amount of curvature of middle finger? Or is there another way?
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What is a slide-to-lift-off called?
At the end of the first solo the guitarist slides backwards an the lifts off the note. I'm pretty sure that is a thing violinist also do. Is there a term for that, I do seem to want to think so?
Solo ...
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two hands arpegiato : simultaneously or left first, followed by right hand?
In this score (Danse Macabre, Saint-Saëns/Liszt)
there is an arpeggiated chord across the two hands: should it be done simultaneously or done first with left hand, followed by right hand?
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Piano agility -- hitting a wall with speed
I've started up practicing piano again in the last few months after 15 years of classical lessons and then a 7 year gap, and I'm running into a similar issue to one I had back in the day playing piano,...
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With which part of my pinkie should I hit the piano keys?
I've recently started learning Chopin's Fantaisie – Impromptu in C# minor for piano on my own.
The left hand nearly always plays the same pattern, with the pinky hitting the lowest tone. The pattern (...
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Sustaining, while replaying, notes in Rachmaninoff Prelude in A flat Op. 23 No. 8
Bars 32-39 of this prelude call for the left hand to play a line built from sustained notes that also get repeatedly replayed in the right hand's sixteenth note arpeggiations.
I cannot figure out ...
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New to reading kit music - questions about technique
I’m a self taught drum kit player and this is my first time reading drum sheet music. I’ve made drum sheets before with MuseScore, so I can read most things fine, but there’s one section where it asks ...
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What is "vertical sticking"?
I was browsing through cadences for my drumline and I stumbled upon "Trade Off" by Cassidy Byars. In the sheet music, it mentions vertical sticking at the end of the snare feature. However, ...
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Seamless detaché on violin
Following my teacher's recommendation I have started to record myself play violin. I was horrified when I listened to back to it. The notes I play as detaché, sound like they have a big silence in ...
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Beethoven Op. 22 No.1 Measures 16-20
Does anyone have any excercises for voicing in this section other than rhythms and over accenting?
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Is there a name for the technique of alternating left and right hand in piano?
There is a technique in piano in which one plays a melody by alternating the left and right hand.
A well known example is in Bach's toccata and fugue in D minor, in the toccata part (right after the ...
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What is the correct way to fade out the end of a piano piece with the sustain pedal?
I am a self-taught piano player which is why I am asking this. When I end a piece I hold the sustain pedal and then gradually lift it to decrease sound until I finally let go. I recently was wondering ...
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Pain in interphalangeal joints of Fretting hand
I'm learning Bass for some months now, and what I noticed is that after practising, I'm having sporadic little events of pain on the sides of my fingers, mostly above and below the proximal ...
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Fingerstyle - dead notes percussive technique help
Currently learning fingerstyle (acoustic), and learning "set fire to the rain (Adele)" by sungha jung.
Here is a link to the video of the song being played:
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How can I lift my fingers off each piano key faster and still keep the same tempo when playing songs?
I recently noticed that when I press the piano keys, I do not lift my fingers fast enough off the keys. This causes a "dragging sound". However, I seem to keep the music tempo going. This ...
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How to play the "Ped" symbol when there's no corresponding release symbol
I know what this symbol means, but I would like to know if I have to press the pedal as soon as I see the symbol and keep pressing it until I see the another "Ped", and then repeat.
I don't ...
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What is the best way for a female voice to hum high notes?
In choir our conductor gave us the advice that your lips should be tingling when you hum, which worked well for lower notes. However, when me and the first sopranos got up to the higher notes, we ...
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Set special reverb in midi player/editor which is oriented to midi reverb event
I am looking for a way to play midis with a special reverb in a midi player or editor.
I'm working on a patch for a videogame which fixes its midi based music (it's buggy in the original game). Among ...
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Technical Analysis of music podcast [closed]
Is there any podcast, channel or … that technicals analyzes music?
I already know some podcasts that analyse music and talk about context, lyrics, the singer or … I’m not looking for these things. I ...
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Hand size and extended chords on piano [duplicate]
I have tried stretching my hand out but I seem to max out somewhere around 16 semitones so I wonder how 11th or 13th chords are supposed to be approached. Are they usually voiced within that span or ...
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How can I practice this part to play it evenly at higher bpm?
I'm practicing this piece and I'm having trouble playing the 75th bar evenly at 125 bpm. The problem occurs on the right hand on the finger change at D♭. I'm playing this bar (right hand) 1235 1235 ...
