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For questions about how music works, seeking to identify structures and patterns in music. Used to indicate questions about musical concepts and structures, as opposed to techniques and execution.
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Why are guitar strings named in such a nonintuitive manner?
Because it wouldn't convey any useful information, being it just the progressive numerical order.
From the standard tuning EADGBe, you can easily infer that:
first and last string produce the same …
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Why intervals are not named after distance
Because one is not interested in the distance itself, but in the relationship between the two notes.
Seven semitones distance tells me nothing, but an interval of fifth rings me a bell, because it re …
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Did Elliott Smith use Chromatic Mediants?
In music, chromatic mediants are "altered mediant and submediant chords."A chromatic mediant relationship defined conservatively is a relationship between two sections and/or chords whose roots are …
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What chord can go lower than E major (in standard tuning)
My guess is that the song is played with capo on the 4th fret.
The first chords are then (relative to capo):
C major: x3201x
G major: 35543x (you can here a slide to the bottom G);
A minor: x0221x
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What would you call this scale?
This is the the fourth mode of the harmonic minor scale, and is known as the Ukranian Dorian scale.
Every time you have a 1 tone and a half jump between two adjacent degrees of a scale (in this case …
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Is a doubly augmented seventh a compound interval?
Standing at what the article says:
Any compound interval can be always decomposed into one or more octaves plus one simple interval.
You cannot split a double augmented 7th in an octave + someth …
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How Roman Picisan Constructed
A lot of things are going on in the song!
The verse is in A minor, it starts with a simple Am/E vamp.
Then it plays Dm/ Bb/D / C / G. The only "strange" chord is Bb/D, Bb in first inversion that is. I …
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What key is this in?
The music you posted is in the key of C, since it has no accidentals.
It is in the mode of G mixolydian though, because the opening alternation between G and F is said to establish the myxolidian mode …
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Problem with 2nd degree in minor scale
The problem is that you cannot transpose from major to minor. You can observe the analogies and differences between parallel keys, but they are not supposed to work interchangeably.
Playing a sequenc …
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Analysis of borrowed chords in Lush's "Single Girl"
I am analysing the chords from songs I like, in order to understand why I like them and to reuse the ideas in contexts that suit my voice and playing styles better.
I am going through Lush - Single G …
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What are these octave like shapes used in popular indie rock?
They are not octaves, because they are not playing the same note.
They are thirds (spanning more than one octave of course), a type of dyad for the purists. They are used in countless riffs and songs …
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