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Bonjour, Greeting from Lyon France =) Not even sure of the formulation because searching for "guitar tablature oamip" return zero google's result. Do you play this like a rasgueado with all 5 fingers? And what the o stands for ? its not the pinky ? Thank you for the support. Have a nice day Regar...

I have just started learning the acoustic guitar. I am a bit confused about strumming pattern. If I am following the pattern DDUUDU, is it the same as DUUDUD ? As it just repeats itself. Is there a subtle difference between these two ?

In the image below, is 1 a motif and 2 another motif, or are they both a 2 bar motif? I'm guessing it's a 2 bar phrase made up of 2 motives in an overall 8 bar period form.

I have found many dynamics in the music of Arnold Schoenberg that don't really make logical sense if you think about them. Curious as to how others would interpret them. This bar of piano music (from Op. 33) is one such example. The pianist is to play that D# with the left hand, crescendo and d...

I compared quite a lot of recordings on Youtube of a piece called La d'Héricourt, 2nd piece of pièces de clavecin of Balbastre. In measure 7 and 8 there are some appoggiaturas. From what I hear is that all appoggiatura's are played rather short, and never taking a half or 2/3 of the main note. ...

A proficient LilyPond user recommends the following: Another essential practice is to notate voices separately. Never use \parallelMusic. [...] I started using LilyPond with \parallelMusic. That was a big mistake. It took a very long time to convert all of that music to separate voice blocks. \p...

Say there is a score of 100 bars. It has many instruments. So there would be a staff for each instrument. Say an instrument is supposed to play only between bars 51 and 60 and from 81-90. How would such a score be written? Would there be many many rests for the staff of that instrument? Or maybe ...

Can anybody tell me wich chord this is? A E half diminished chord? An A#6 with 4th augmented? This is from the last page of the Liszt Sonata in B minor

How can I typeset coll'ottava (or col 8, coll' 8, etc.) markings in order to double music at the octave in LilyPond? A coll'ottava isn't the same as an 8va or 8vb. From Wikipedia: The abbreviations col 8, coll' 8, and c. 8va stand for coll'ottava, meaning "with the octave", i.e. to play the not...

As far as I know, double barlines can be used to separate sections of a piece. Some examples I found on my books: between variations (if there is no repeat sign) between an introduction and the solo entrance to highlight the da capo al segno points when the piece is composed of different parts (...

Here is an excerpt from Bach's first movement of Matthäuspassion. Note how the choral bass almost doubles the continuo, except for some small ornaments which are very much thematic; then it goes to diverge for a bar, then goes to 8ves and unisons. It's almost as if the continuo is the Schenkerian...

I'm a bit unsure exactly how to phrase this question, but here goes. I recently received a chromatic accordion as a Christmas gift (C-system on the melody side, stradella system on the bass side), and since I'm somewhat experienced with piano accordions, the thing I want to focus on in particular...

Writing a music for flute & piano, I wrote some fragments like this one for the flute: the tempo is about 𝅘𝅥 = 112-114. I wonder if is it possible to play the accents within the legato. I'm aware it is possible when playing slowly, but given the speed of the 16th tuples I'm not sure if the notat...

Is it acceptable to divide the bass section into two groups of contrabasses for just a few measures of the piece? If so, what notation should I use to indicate this split?

Electric bass guitars and bass ukuleles sometimes have frets and sometimes don't. Both variants are widely used, manufacturers sometimes make two almost identical models where the only difference is one of them not having frets, bass players often play both variants and use the one they currently...

I'm not a musician, I'm trying to pass an existing score (that I learned when I was a kid) to MuseScore. It's Aires De Linares for guitar. The time signature is 3/4. Here's where I'm having 2 issues passing it into the program. There are 2 voices in this measure. The green section is a full meas...

i have two steel-string Fenders CD60, one DS-V2 bought many years ago, and another DS-V3 bought 3 years ago, same strings Ernie Ball 2047 on both same regular tuning yet playing V3 is much harder, strings feel much, much more tensed playing on it feels like I haven't practiced enough, except that...

How should I format the rests and notes in this rhythm to be easier to read and less cramped? Edit: forgot to show the meter, added new picture

It starts in the bass clef on E and ends in the treble on E but is that just a big skip from the D# to the E or are there notes filled in between? Thanks

What is the correct left-hand fingering for Dm/A (2nd inversion) on the piano? I've seen different recommendations—some tutorials suggest 5-2-1, while others use 5-3-1. On pianochord.org they list 5-3-1 for Dm/A, but for other similar chord shapes, like C/G (2nd inversion), I saw they recommend 5...

First time poster. I’ve been working to teach myself piano for about half a year. I don’t have a teacher. In the attached music, i am being asked to play a note that appears on two staves at the same time. How do I handle it in this particular use case? I’ve read through other examples asked by p...

In the system of Roman numeral analysis that I'm using, all diatonic seventh chords seem to end with "7". For instance, in D minor FACE is called III7, not III#7 or IIIM7. And in this system, in D minor, FAC#E would be III+7. So, it seems the triad is clearly specified, using capital or lowercase...

I can't seem to find a notation that shows how chords show up in a measure with lyrics. Tab shows how the chords show up in the measure, but no lyrics. It's easy to find lyrics and chords, but they never display measures...so the rhythm is implied through the lyrics. Is the only solution learning...

In popular (i.e., non-classical) music, especially in rock/pop and similar styles: is there a term used to refer to a pattern where the drums delineate a transition between two distinct passages, or to provide an "entrance" to some prominent element/figure in the progression of the piece/song? In...

I'm fully aware of the difference between a slur and a tie, but I wonder if there is any guideline about how to place a slur that ends on a (multiple-)tied note. Please, consider the following examples: and both will be played in the same way: legato from C to F. Is the different way the slur i...

I have a notation I have not seen before. Anyone have a clue? There is a half note next to a half note with two parallel lines on one note’s stem. These are above the measure and not notes to be played. It’s a notation. The measure is the start of 5/2 time signature. It has a dotted whole note ti...

First off, I know there exists great subjectivity in music. But excluding things like preferred composer, style, or genre...Is it possible to create a closed definition for music? I've come across a number of proposed definitions, the simplest of which is 'organized sound.' But this seems much to...

I will cop to "learned it from the Real Book" but learned it before in a different key (E/C#min?) so in this version it starts out as a ii V I in G then there's a Cmaj7 followed by ii V one in Emin. Is it the (picardy?) VI of the 6 2 5 or a tritone substitution for the F#-7b5, the ii? It doesn'...

I just got handed the bass book for "Mean Girls" and many of the tunes have "[CLICK IN]" and "[CLICK OUT]" markings. What do they mean?

I was watching a YouTube tutorial on Desperado for guitar. The instructor played the first bar several times, and when I watched closely, I noticed that he occasionally played the last two notes of the bar hammer-on (especially when he was playing fast). Here is that part of the video. I'm wonde...

I have a question about this particular piano piece, keep in mind I have a very limited music theory knowledge. Okay, so I'm playing Chopin's Nocturne Op 37 No 1 in G minor. But the piece ends on natural B — I mean the last note is natural B. Is the piece supposed to be in B major or B flat maj...

Given a frequency-amplitude graph as one would obtain from a Fourier transform of some sound wave, how does one unambiguously determine, numerically/formulaically, the fundamental frequency? Example: Suppose I have a tone consisting of exactly four pitches: 311Hz, 457Hz, 622Hz, and 914Hz. Which o...

I've been learning music theory and composing. When I'm learning songs on the piano (from a youtube tutorial) the melody always sounds different from the original song. I don't understand if there's a difference between the instrumentals and the vocals. when composing a song is the instrumental m...

Sorry if this is a newbie question. By ear I am simply not able to determine the time signature of the Balatro soundtrack. I've read comments online that it is in 7/4 time. Can someone guide me how this is counted? The beat I can surmise is basically - dunk-dunk-dunk-dunk (4 equal beats) dunnnk-d...

Right at the beginning of the Prelude from "Le Tombeau de Couperin" there are some grace notes that don't fit in the measure. I've been thinking of treating the entire shape as a turn for the third 16th note or just playing the grace notes faster so that the second 16th note matches in both my h...

In House of Memories by Panic! At the Disco, there's an interesting rhythmic effect at the 2 minute mark (link is 15s before it happens). It feels like the music is unraveling. I feel like there's a time signature change, but every time I try to count it, I lose track of the beat for about 10s,...

What do people mean when they call music abstract? I’m confused because to me it seems that all music inherently abstract. However, if I write a 4 chord progression and slap some simple melody on top, that would not be called “abstract music” even if this piece is not “about” anything in particul...

During my lesson today my piano teacher told me something that gave me a pause and I want to get additional perspectives. While we were working on scales, she commented that I should emphasize my finger movements more (lifting individual fingers up and landing them on the keys), and that my hand ...

I've been studying other people's chord progressions to get better at creating my own. I found this one online and it really stumped me on how it works. I put down what I'm thinking so far, but I'm relatively new to this so please let me know if I'm going about this wrong :). D min -> D# dim7 : ...

So a syllable is typically defined by linguists as a nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional sounds before or after that nucleus (margins, which are most often consonants). This means that syllable can just be a vowel without a consonant. The examples i’ve heard of melismas are always runs on ...

I'm working through the book The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills: Sight Singing, by Murphy, Phillips, Marvin, Clendenning (Third Edition), which in general I am finding to be excellent, but something strikes me as curious: At the end of Chapter 5, a short summary of each of the Dorian, Phrygian,...

I am writing an essay on how musical tuning systems developed differently across cultures. Currently I'm looking into how Europe eventually came to the standard 12TET, while there were other systems being developed such as Vincentino's 31TET. I am also looking into the 7 note tuning system of Tha...

how to write text inside bar/staf? I try this one, but the bar size not fit with the text. And how to hide the staffline behind the text? \paper { indent = 0\mm short-indent = 0\mm } \relative c' { \time 2/4 c d e f g a b c d e f g a b \break \override TextScript.extra-offset = #'(-1 . -3....

As an example, in the beginning of Chopin Polonaise in Ab major posth. B.5,there is a natural sign under the turn symbol. In this particular case it seems obvious the natural sign applies to the D and not to the E, because it sounds right and also the E before the turn was without natural sign. B...

Can I use put an A or D string on my violin in place of a G string? I don't think I have a G string to use.

Sometimes it feels like I can't keep up with my feet/pedal playing...what changes can I make to improve? Do I need to stretch and/or strengthen my ankle? Do I need a better throne? (I'm tall and use a cushion on top) Is it better to play with my heel off the ground? (I struggle to stay balanced a...

Hoping for the ability to output variations on a score from a single .ly file. For example the vocalist only needs a "lead sheet", but for myself I may also want a piano staff. There are command line options which could perhaps set an environment variable, but I'm not sure if the .ly file itself ...

I am looking for all of the rules and concepts in lyric setting and how to properly apply them. The definition of lyric setting is, the process in songwriting of placing textual content (lyrics) in the context of musical rhythm, in which the lyrical meter and musical rhythm are in proper alignmen...

I have been playing guitar for about 15 years (on and off). I mostly play acoustic guitar but when I play my electric guitar I easily and accidentally bend the strings so that the chord I am playing sounds out of tune. Will this be solved by putting heavier strings on the electric guitar? I have ...

I have the following example: \score { \new Staff { \relative { \clef bass \time 6/8 \key c \major fis'8 e dis e b <<dis!-3 fis-1>> | << \voiceOne { g4.-1 g4.-1 ( | fis4.-1) fis4.-3 ( | e4.-2) e4.-4 ( | dis8-2) s8...