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Please feel free to expand/correct this (incomplete) list of musical terms
Piano - quiet
Forte - loud
tempo - the speed of the music
BPM - Beats per minute
Key - the note/chord which the tune revolves around.
Chord - 3 notes played together
Diad/dyad - 2 notes played together (usually outlines a chord)
triad - 3 notes (usually from a chord)
Pentatonic scale - a 5 note scale either major or minor
diatonic scale - a 7 note scale, either major or minor
Major scale - uplifting, happy sounding scale
minor scale - downbeat, sad sounding scale
arpeggio - the notes from a chord played individually
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
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Perfect interval: when the MD buys the round
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I reckon
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Tremolo: an oscillating fluctuation in volume
unless of course you have a Fender
Key - the note/chord which the tune revolves around.
this is not quite right
the key is essentially a combination of the series of intervals along with a "tonic" note whichy is used to determine the pool of notes from which the scale and chords are derived
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
1. Musical notation for all of the instruments required to play the piece of music, laid out so as for the instruments' parts to be read in parallel
2. The value of the number of goals scored by each side in a football match.
Score (v.):
To avail oneself of wackybacky for the weekend
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simple time: is where the count is divided by 2, 4, 8 etc..
as in 1/8th notes and 1/16th notes in 4/4 time
compound time: is where the count is divided by multiples of 3 to give a swing [triplet] feel
so 12/8 is essentially the compound equivelent of 4/4
and likewise, 9/8 is the compound equiv of 3/4 etc
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
a voicing is a group of three or more notes that can be interpreted as one or more chords.
(this is really important for 7b9 or diminished chords - which are repeated every overtone)
a triad can also be inverted 3 5 R or 5 R 3 ...
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I was aiming to remove a piece of ambiguity (I percieved) rather than contradict what you'd said - but I can't be the judge of the success of that.
I'd say the R 3 5 relationship is founded on triadic harmony (stacked thirds) and that meaning is lost (or at least obscured) with inversions.
When someone says: what chord is this - 3X3456 ... I call that a voicing. What chord is it? out of context? dunno... G13, Fsus, Csus4... probably G13 but could be an Em11/G.
Equally, a voicing can reoccur with different timbres but be the same voicing (but not chord as a guitarist would know them): 10 X 10 11 X X === X5X56X === XXoX11 - same voicing, different fingering.
I don't think I'm telling you anything you don't know, simply clarifying the terms I use for concepts you're already familliar with... I found the differentiations useful to clarify my thinking of stuff is all