Music: Practice & Theory Weekly Newsletter - Monday, December 29, 2014

Music: Practice & Theory newsletter

Top new questions this week: When is a piece in A minor versus C major? When would you say a piece, or a movement in a symphony, is in A minor versus C major? They both use the same notes on the scale... what would indicate that the piece is in A minor? Let's take an ... theory scales key   asked by ktm5124 18 votes answered by Tim 12 votes Is there any difference between these two note values? I have never understood if these two note values are supposed to be played in the same way: Mathematically, I can understand that they are the same, since both of them have 6 notes that are being ... theory notation rhythm   asked by Shevliaskovic 8 votes answered by user17002 10 votes How do I write music down from a recording? I am a beginning piano student. I bought some sheet music to play Make Someone Happy, written by Jule Styne, and made famous by Jimmy Durante. The problem is that the sheet music starts with the ... piano transcription   asked by CodeMed 6 votes answered by jjmusicnotes 3 votes Beamed note with unfilled heads — What is this? In the 1905 incidental score to Peter Pan by John Crook (1852–1922), there's a notation I'm unfamiliar with: double-beamed notes with unfilled heads. (See the first four bars of the score below.) In ... notation sheet-music   asked by J. C. Salomon 6 votes answered by Pat Muchmore 14 votes Is it orthodox to use the pedal when playing Bach on the piano? It is my understanding that Bach's keyboard works were written for the harpsichord, and thus no (damper) pedal is used while playing Bach on the harpsichord. On the piano however, I have heard ... piano j-s-bach keyboard-pedals   asked by Tyler Gaona 5 votes answered by Lolo 6 votes Electric Guitar: is a good practice or bad habit that I tap the strings with my picking hand when there is a rest When I was learning to play electric guitar, it was very difficult for me to keep up with the beats when there comes rests(I don't know if it is called "rest", I mean the beats which you need to mute ... guitar electric-guitar   asked by MeloS 5 votes answered by Folau 6 votes Using flatted third in 12 bar blues I've found that when playing the last four bars of the 12 bar blues (V IV I I) with triads (in a typical 70s rock fashion) that inserting a major triad on the flatted third sounds really good as a ... harmony chord-progressions rock   asked by Alexei Averchenko 4 votes answered by Casey Rule 7 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How do I know when it's time to change a tube on my amplifier? I think this would be a wonderfully instructive question to people who are new to tube amplifiers. In short, how do I know that it's time to change a tube, and what's a good strategy for figuring out ... maintenance amplifiers electronics vacuum-tube   asked by Jduv 23 votes answered by DRL 15 votes Is there any real-world difference between time signatures such as 4/4 and 8/8? These days I pretty much play everything by ear, but was originally trained in strathspey and reel violin so realise I should know the answer to this, but I can't remember what, if any, the practical ... time-signatures   asked by Dr Mayhem 55 votes answered by Alex Basson 67 votes Can you answer this? How do I transition smoothly going up or down while singing without strain or breaking? Is mixed-voice the key? How do I work on it? I've been trying to learn singing for sometime now and have gone through dozens of videos and articles understanding voice/vocal folds/registers/bridging/exercises-lip-trills-apreggios..etc,. since ... technique voice vocal-range   asked by Komal-SkyNET 1 vote

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