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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How to get rid of a sharp resonance in the first formant region during singing?
On recordings I've noticed, when I belt, my voice tends to have a sharp resonance in the region of the first formant, typically when the 2nd harmonic hits the 1st formant, causing it to become ...
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How do I improve my picking and fretting speed?
I've seen people like John Petrucci playing incredibly fast with their right and left hands, but I can't seem to get any faster than I am now (which is speedy, but not near as fast as John).
Is there ...
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Can one be too old to learn an instrument?
I own a guitar. I've owned it since I was about 13, but never really got into it because I was a spiteful teen who wanted to play the drums, and went out of my way to play the drums instead (to the ...
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Is my voice damaged? Is the last note falsetto, head voice or something else? [closed]
Disclaimer: I feel that the recording I attached is pretty loud, so bear that in mind.
I'm sorry if I'm doing something wrong, but I am really desperate and I created an account here just to ask about ...
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Piano parallel chord jump technique?
Trying to learn blues piano, there are lots of times both left and right hands make the same jump, say from I to V.
Besides "keep practicing", are there any helpful tricks to landing in the ...
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What does the plus (+) ornament mean?
I am learning a baroque piece on the recorder. Some notes have an unusual ornamentation symbol. How is a note with a plus sign over it played? It was suggested to play it as a mordent. Is that correct?...
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How to play two voices with a large range in the same hand?
My copy of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah includes the following measures:
I don't know how to play the left hand. My problem is that I cannot reach from F2 to A3 (in the first bar, others ...
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Bass guitar - One finger per fret or not?
I have seen a few questions about this on guitar, but none on bass.
When I started guitar, I instinctively used my four fingers to play stuff (five if you count the thumb for over-neck awesomeness) ...
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Alto Saxophone: tremolo using alternate fingerings
On Alto Saxophone, which notes can easily produce a "tremolo" effect, using alternate fingerings?
It's a kind of "warble" effect I'm looking for, but without changing pitch (or ...
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Are there different rules for double notes fingering (piano) for legato vs. staccato?
If the double notes are legato, is it a rule not to involve the same finger when playing two double notes in a row? If so, is staccato subject to such rule?
In particular, in the following Bar 45 of ...
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what piano pedal technique is being used here and does it have a conventional name/notation?
characterized by loud kinda unnatural sounding "stab" followed immediately by a softer sustain. my working theory is that it involves playing a chord staccato then pressing the sustain pedal ...
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Recorder thumb technique
The standard techniques for the left thumb on the recorder involve sliding or rotating the thumb downwards (sometimes using the thumbnail) or rotating/sliding the thumb backwards so that the hole open ...
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Why Different Rasgueado exist
I am learning flamenco guitar and currently practicing rasgueado.
Traditional rasgueado you have to use all your fingers but i came to know about a-i-i rasgueado , were you ignore your middle finger.
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How do you bend notes on the bagpipes?
Here's a video I was pretty impressed with:
(Loving the Red Hot Chilli Pipers)
At about the 1 minute mark we hear a bagpiper bend a note upwards by a tone, ...
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In flute technique, is it common to use the throat to change octaves?
I am a beginning flute player with a background in harmonica playing. For those unfamiliar, it is possible to play a diatonic harmonica chromatically by adjusting the shape of your mouth and throat. ...
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How to play two voices with a very wide span [duplicate]
From image 1, the left hand of 2nd or 3rd measure has two voices if my understanding is correct. But when I watched the author playing, she played just as in image 2 which has only one voice.
Any ...
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What embouchure and mouth configuration is the best for singing soul music?
I only started singing soul music well when I started keeping a large horizontal embouchure and I started pushing the back of my tongue up and the soft palate down, sounding more "nasal". ...
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Is it bad to make a drums double stroke roll using the rebound?
Watching a lot of YouTube videos about how to make a clean double stroke roll, and I was wondering why so many people on the videos say "do not rely on the rebound"!
Is it a bad habit to ...
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Is it really necessary to have your thumb on the back of the guitar neck?
I've seen lots of artists playing with their thumb resting on the top of the neck, but my guitar teacher says it's a must to place the thumb on the back of the neck. Is this really necessary?
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Difference between Minor and Diminished Intervals
The minor is decreasing Major intervals (2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th) by half step.
Diminishing means made the perfect or the major intervals smaller by half step as well.
So what is the difference? I am ...
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How to highlight top note while playing triads / intervals
I am trying to learn funeral march op 35 by Chopin and the initial motive is played using some intervals in which the top note should be the melody thus should be louder then the other notes you are ...
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On trombone is there a counterpart of "half valve"?
Players of brass instruments with piston valves can smear a note by depressing the valves slightly, which broadens the "slot" allowing the player to portamento smoothly between two notes.
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The proper right-hand picking technique for playing the electric guitar
When I was taking electric guitar lessons for a year I was told, by my former teacher, that the pick should be parallel to strings at all times and so he insisted on it.
The other thing he was very ...
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What is taught in lessons using the CVT method?
I'm interested in doing some vocal lessons with a Complete Vocal Technique (CVT) coach. I've read around the concept and seen a few exercises, even had a taster session but what if one was taking ...
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What is the most physically efficient way to change pitch within a vocal register?
What is the best method to vary notes when I sing ?
by stretching vocal cords ?
by increasing/decreasing my air pressure ?
by using both at the same time ?
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Gregorian Chant vocal technique
What are the following vocal techniques?
on the word Quantus at 0:17
on the word mi-rum at 0:36
on the word mundus at 1:30
on the word ju-dex at 3:14
on the word Et at 3:59
on the word O-ro at 3:12
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Are there pieces that require retuning an instrument mid-performance?
Are there any musical pieces that call for the musician to detune/retune the instrument, not in advance like a scordatura, but mid-performance?
I think it would be a neat avant-garde concept—for ...
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Why I have "pops" in my vocal
I recently noticed when I'm singing I have "pops" like Popcorn in my voice.
I've never had this before, what is that "pops"? It's normal?
Here's example
https://drive.google.com/file/d/...
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What are the pros and cons of Traditional Grip vs. Matched Grip for snare and drumset?
So far I've just been learning matched grip for my snare and drumset playing, but I see of lot of people using traditional grip as well. I'm curious, what are some of the pros and cons of matched vs. ...
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What technique is used for the opening of this Soundgarden song?
The song Loud Love by Soundgarden opens with several single notes on the guitar. They sound almost like bowed notes on a cello.
I'm not sure if maybe Kim Thayil is working the volume knob, or if this ...
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How do you play a low Eb on a double bass?
The opera Das Rheingold starts with four of the double basses playing a low E-flat, one half step below the lowest E on a bass with standard tuning. In the sheet music, there is the instruction that ...
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How to unlearn incorrect muscle memory
So I've been learning to play piano for a few months now. And there's this one, very easy piece, which I have absolutely no difficulties playing, except for. one. freaking. transition. which I somehow ...
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How can I improve my piano accompaniments?
When I play piano or keyboards, I've noticed that I keep slipping into playing the same chords (and variations thereof, such as very simple bass lines) with my left hand while I use my right hand to ...
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Can a 4-hole harmonica play more than the 8 diatonic notes?
I have a 4-hole harmonica. It is too simple; so, I can play
simple songs only.
Yesterday, I asked a short question on this site. And, they told me that harmonica bending technique can help me play ...
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What's the technique called where a singer forcefully breaks their voice?
I'm sorry that I'm approaching this as a novice so I can't describe it in correct terminology. However; every time I hear this song, from the point heard in the below video ...
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What is the proper way to play A-Flat scales on piano?
Consider four cases:
A-flat major
A-flat (natural) minor
A-flat melodic minor
A-flat harmonic minor
I start them with the third finger on the A-flat key (both hands), but I have no idea how a ...
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On piano how do I play one note, and the same note an octave higher with one hand?
I have been playing piano for a few months now, and I have come to a roadblock, in this one song I play CDEFG C on octave 4, while I do the same on octave 5. All of this is with one hand, I have been ...
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Double thirds, fourths, fifths and sixths piano fingering?
I have absolutely no idea how to finger things like this. I don't really know what sort of guidelines to follow or what books to practice that combine double thirds, fourths and fifths consecutively ...
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Rhythm guitar techniques for a great Blues/Blues Rock player
Firstly, let me say that I've been playing guitar for a couple of years now. I know a few scales (Major, Minor, Blues, Harmonic Minor) and the basic chords with it's different shapes. I've also ...
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How to perform quicker shifts? (Prokofiev Visions Fugitives #2)
The passage of interest:
This is specifically pertaining to the right hand, and the tempo I am provided is quarter note = 60-66. The fingering I am using is, starting with the C:
3-5 3 2 1 3 1 | 3 2 ...
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Best way to practice difficult runs
Runs are very common in music; a typical run is a sequence of quick, short, slurred (not always) notes that either ascend or descend and often involve multiple shifts.
The approaches
I've learned a ...
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How to differentiate interpretively similar sections in Satie's Gnossienne #1
I’m learning Gnossienne #1 by Erik Satie. Earlier the composer instructs ‘Du bout de la pensée’ which I have no problem performing. The problem occurs when I reach the end of the piece with the ...
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How to approach the collé bowstroke?
This section is from the bottom of the second page of the First Movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. A specific bowstroke called collé is to be utilized in this section.
I am not a ...
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The use of finger substitution to execute a slurred fifth
Upon performing the theme from the 2nd movement of the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 (1st violin) part, I came upon a slur that went from a B flat on the D string with a fourth finger to an F on the A ...
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How to play melody with middle finger and chords with others
I experimented a bit on the piano, say you play a chord with thumb, index finger, ring finger and little finger in a fast rhythm, and then play longer notes in a melody with the middle finger on the ...
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What is the difference between a marcato and an accent?
I hear a few people refer to what looks like an accent as a marcato. Is a marcato a different name for accent, or is it a different way of playing the accent?
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How is the 'natural autotune' singing effect achieved?
This singer's videos were doing the rounds recently and have got some mainstream media coverage (1, 2) and I'm intrigued to know how the effect is achieved. It sounds a little like the voice 'breaking'...
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How do you play a tremolo attached to a stack of notes on a piano?
How do you play a tremolo attached to a stack of notes on a piano? (Is that the right wording?) I put an example below.
I've seen this sort of pattern several times in piano arrangements of popular ...
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Dynamic markings in harpsichord music
I have come across books similar to L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin, but written by English Composers. One such book "The Art of Playing the Harpsichord" IMSLP page and similar works have ...
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How do I hold/use a pick
Seriously. Most people say between the thumb and index coming out the side of your thumb, but I keep messing up, hitting wrong strings, bad rhythm/timing, etc. Any other ways of holding a pick or ...
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