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Riders on the storm fingering for piano
I do it by playing the first note of each descending third with the middle finger. Then, if the second note is F# or C#, I play the second note with the index finger, otherwise I play it with my ...
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Scales name convention
The name of the key signature matches the tonic note in musical notation. So if you are given sheet music, follow what the sheet music says. If it's written in 7 sharps, you call it C# major/a# minor, ...
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Scales name convention
Not too many reasons to write in a nonexistent key of D# actually, unless you are just having an exercise of it for learning purposes. Eb is one of those keys with only one spelling.
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Scales name convention
That's exactly what we do, to transpose scales into different keys.
The idea of writing down any music is to make it the easiest possible to read. So, we end up with as few sharps or flats as possible ...
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Scales name convention
Keys with more than 7 sharps or 7 flats in key signature are avoided. For example, D# major would require two double sharps, i.e., (f# c#) g# d# a# e# b# fx cx. It would be quite inconvenient to read. ...
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What animals can distinguish or recognize musical chords of like 2 notes?
Research has been done on this; this is a new topic for me, but I was able to find this paper: Paola Crespo-Bojorque and Juan M. Toro, "The use of interval ratios in consonance perception by rats ...
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Why do the notes of a blues scale sound good with the I, IV, and V chords?
The Blues scale is mainly built on the Minor Pentatonic scale.
A Blues : A C D (D#) E G
A Minor Pentatonic : A C D E G
A Blues progression is containing 3 chords : A7 D7 E7
If we take root and ...
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