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Writing a Bridge for a Song
If it's a song you're writing, have a listen to the tens of thousands that already exist. I guess you'll find less than 1% change key in the way you suggest for the bridge. Some will appear to move (...
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Writing a Bridge for a Song
Historically — and I'm thinking back to the Baroque and Classical eras of Western music — a contrasting section for a piece (using the C major example) would most likely be in the parallel minor (C ...
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Can I plug my amp directly into my audio interface?
"However do not plug speaker output(s) into the inputs of an audio interface -- this will surely break the amp or the interface (or both)."
Man, i did this one night, maybe i was luck, but ...
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Why do notes played on bass strings on the highest frets sound bad?
Bassically, hehe, when you play bass up high you are also getting tones from the string on the other side of the fretted finger. With sensitive pickups you can, well, pick those up also. If you just ...
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How to derive triads from more complex chords
To find out which notes in a guitar fingering of a complex multi-note chord ("chord" = stack of thirds) belong to the chord's basic triad (the first two thirds starting from the chord's root)...
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How to derive triads from more complex chords
You are going about this the wrong way because complex chords grow out of simple chords, not the other way around. What you need to do is understand the 5 basic chord shapes, C,A,G,E,D and their minor ...
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Guitar Cabinet volume low
You need an amplifier with speaker output from the power amp.
The Harley Benton is a 60 watt cabinet. Your Katana & GX won't be outputting more than about a watt, if that.
The Katana looks like it ...
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Guitar Cabinet volume low
Am I misunderstanding how i can use this guitar cabinet [...]?
Yes. It needs a "power amplifier" to drive it. Probably of the order of at least a Watt (typical guitar amplifiers are 5W - ...
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How to derive triads from more complex chords
Are you saying that this particular book only covers extended chords? I guess that's possible. Or are there shapes for a basic Em triad on an earlier page?
Or are you asking how extended chords can ...
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How to derive triads from more complex chords
Only if you know one or both of these things. Notes on strings/frets of the guitar, and/or notes which make up the chord shown. Slight problem: Em11 isn't a triad. It has the basic triad (usually), ...
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Why doesn't the G chord resolve as definitively into C as E7 into Am?
Generically, you are asking about a dominant seventh chord resolving to a tonic (or implied tonic) major or minor triad.
The resolution of those chords, in terms of voice leading, involves the tone of ...
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Why doesn't the G chord resolve as definitively into C as E7 into Am?
The acid test, of course, would be to play exactly the same voicings on each instrument. That means deciding if you actually play all 6 strings on guitar, and if not, then only play the appropriate ...
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In a classical guitar score, when a section plays very low notes, is it better to use 8vb, G clef with 8vb or the F clef?
In my opinion, none of those is good. They all have one thing in common: they will confuse anyone who will be reading your score, and for several reasons:
If you're going to change what the dots on ...
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Why doesn't the G chord resolve as definitively into C as E7 into Am?
The most likely problem is the chord voicings. On the piano, the root of the chord is always the lowest pitch, which is a safe bet and will generally give a decent resolution.
However, on guitar, ...
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What do the chord symbols on each bar mean?
What do chord symbols have to do with melody?
Chord Symbols and Melody share a Common Cause
I see chord symbols on each bar, and I assume they represent the notes in the bar [...] If [chord symbols] ...
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What do the chord symbols on each bar mean?
No. Staff notation (or possibly tab notation) represent the notes in the bar - pitch and rhythm. The chord symbol represents the underlying harmony. The chord shapes that could be strummed along ...
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What do the chord symbols on each bar mean?
Chord symbols of the sort we all assume you're asking about first appeared in sheet music published for amateur use in the home, before the invention of audio recording technology. The purpose was to ...
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Why are all legato practices about 3 notes per string?
Once one is an experienced player, any note could be an emphasised one - plucked, hammered or pulled-off. 3nps doesn't necessarily have to be hammered, or played other than normally, it just happens ...
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What do the chord symbols on each bar mean?
False premise! The chord symbols shown for a particular bar do not, and do not have to, represent the notes found in said bar. The chord symbol tells which chord can be played during that bar.
Safe to ...
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What do the chord symbols on each bar mean?
Do you mean a lead sheet?
No... the chord symbols are not "vague representation of the notes in the bar". The chords are the harmony that belongs with the tune and it's the composer who gets ...
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What guitar chord is made up of the open notes A D G B?
G9, Amin11, A9sus4
In reality the chosen chord is context based
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Is it true that D A D F A D is the bluesiest guitar tuning?
A tuning on its own isn’t bluesy or not bluesy. It is just a series of notes a guitar can be tuned to. In your case it is tuned to a D minor chord. It is not more or less bluesy than say, a D major ...
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What guitar chord is made up of the open notes A D G B?
On a six string guitar, with the top and bottom E strings muted, strumming those four notes downward would chime the 5th, 4th, 3rd, and 2nd strings.
This, in that context, is an Asus9 guitar chord.
It ...
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What guitar chord is made up of the open notes A D G B?
With A being the lowest note and not repeated higher, I'd call it a G/A (i. e. G with added bass A).
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What guitar chord is made up of the open notes A D G B?
D G and B form the very simple G major triad, if it's in that rising order, it'll be 2nd inversion.
Adding an A note in there will introduce a 2nd (rather than a 9th) to the title, and as that A ...
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What guitar chord is made up of the open notes A D G B?
Because those notes don’t form a basic triad or seventh chord (instrument doesn’t matter), the interpretation depends on the surrounding context.
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Guitar triplet legato: should i lift all fingers while moving to the next string?
Legato means "tied together", maintaining a smoothly connected unbroken sound, so your idea about keeping the previous string's note sounding as long as possible, spider walk style, is right....
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I have a small hand and am an adult. Would 1/2 or 3/4 classical guitar be ok?
Bear in mind that those sizes are not really representative. A 3/4 guitar isn't actually 3/4 the size of a full sized guitar, for example. It's more like 7/8.
As a beginner, you could buy a smaller ...
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How to use modes to create chords
The modes will produce the same chords as their corresponding major scale. The chords for the C Major scale are the same for D Dorian, E Phrygian, ... and so on.
so in C Major the (triad) chords are: ...
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