How do I maintain flamenco guitar fingernails? Any flamenco guitarists out there? How do you keep the fingernails in such great shape? Is the difference that much better with the strumming hand's fingernails being longer?
Whats the proper notation for holding one note of a chord while . . . OI vopiSeveral posts down, there is an example of correct notation I copied it from that post One notates the sound as two voices (thus the quarter rest) with a dotted half in one voice and a quarter rest and two quarter notes in the other voice It's a common notation when the keyboard plays more than one voice in each hand
How can I determine if double stops are playable? inspired by Are these double stops playable on violin? : I have never had the opportunity to play a fretless string instrument When writing music for violins or other string instruments, what rule
terminology - Difference between keys and scales? - Music: Practice . . . I have forgotten which is which, but in one of them the scale is set in unique ways for each piece where a unique scale is associated with a single raga This is a different approach than the "western" tradition where (by comparison) there is a limited set of predefined scales that are used in almost every piece
What is urgency when referring to music "To play with urgency" is related to tempo, or time It describes music being a little prime on each beat, producing a feeling of urgency, of a fast driving movement It could be a tempo indication by the composer, or a band being a bit stressed out, or an artist always producing fast-paced songs
Phrygian dominant scale with a major seventh Phrygian dominant with a raised 7th is Thaat Bhairav in Indian classical - of which the famous Raga Bhairav is derived Thaat Bhairav employs flattened 2nd and flattened 6th, keeping all other notes natural
How do the pegs on Sitar neck work? - Music: Practice Theory Stack . . . The frets above are kept in place by a tight string that goes around the back of neck This allows you to move the frets to fit the raga (scale) you want to play For example, there is only one fret in the position of the minor and major 3rd, so you can move the fret to have either a minor or major 3rd in the scale
Difference between equal temperament and just intonation I am learning Indian classical music and learned about just intonation and equal temperament I want to know the difference between them I know that Indian classical music uses just intonation and
Use of Music Theory in Composition Rather than wondering how Indian music could be forced into the music theory paradigm or how music theory could describe Raga, one could ask if there is a version of the "rules", a theory, that supports the common practices of Raga In other words are there multiple music theories The "rules" of music in any culture are not like the laws of