Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Learning to play the piano as an adult can be intimidating. Many people limit themselves because they think they are too old or that it's too late...
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A440 Pianos are generally tuned to an A440 pitch standard that was adopted during the early 1900s in response to widely varying standards....
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The most common keyboard sizes are Full-Sized (104 key), TKL (87 key), and 60% (68 key). Each size is unique with different features. There are...
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No sight, no smell, no hearing, no taste – they're all things that can be, and commonly are, lived with by many people around the world. This...
Read More »Soprano: this is the highest singing voice, with the highest tessitura. It is also the most common female voice.
Some voices are high-pitched. Some voices are low pitched. Some voices have incredible agility. Some voices are rich and heavy. Some voices are difficult to categorise! The spectrum of the human singing voice is very broad. This makes each voice unique, but also makes it difficult to manage for composers. A composer thinks of a voice mostly in three terms: its specific vocal range, its vocal timbre (that is, the colour of the voice, whether it is for instance soft or hard, woody or metallic) and its vocal weight (whether the voice is light or heavy). In the European classical music tradition, systems have been developed to classify the different voice types. Classification is used to associate voices with potential roles: whether hero(ine) or foe, young or old, voices are typified and tend to play always the same kind of character. The most basic system of classification is based on the vocal range of the voice, most specifically the range where the voice is at its most comfortable (its tessitura, which is Italian for ʽtextureʼ). Voices are ranked from high to low. Women’s voices are divided into three groups: soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto. Men’s voices are divided into four groups : countertenor, tenor, baritone, and bass.
Choose a specific shelf or cabinet as a dedicated spot for storing and organizing sheet music. Place an empty organizer or file tray nearby to use...
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the tune We might consider melody to be the single most important element within a song. In everyday language, this is the element we call 'the...
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Before they took up an instrument, the new musicians' average IQ score was 103. When they were tested again, six months later, it had increased to...
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Richard Gere's guitar collection They found that the top instrument was the guitar at 26 percent, followed closely by the saxophone at 25 percent....
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