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Numbers as Intervals in Music
Tuesday, 25 Aug, 2009 – 9:02 | View Comments
Numbers as Intervals in Music

A lot of times, when referring to an interval, people will refer to it as a Number instead of the actual note.
The example is that A B C# D E F# can be written as …

Sibelius 6 Unboxing
Friday, 24 Jul, 2009 – 11:23 | View Comments
Sibelius 6 Unboxing

Sibelius 6 has a lot of cool updates. Unboxings are when you open up a product for the first time and video tape it for others to see.
Here we have a number of Sibelius …

Sforzando, Crescendos, Tremolos, and more!
Friday, 24 Jul, 2009 – 10:37 | View Comments
Sforzando, Crescendos, Tremolos, and more!

Sforzando = when an attack hits hard, diminuendos, and then crescendos… all in one attack
Crescendos = making the music increasingly louder
Tremolos = rapidly attacking the note
Dynamics = mezzo forte, forte, piano, mezzo piano. Indicating how …

Sibelius 6 Intro
Wednesday, 22 Jul, 2009 – 5:15 | View Comments
Sibelius 6 Intro

Sibelius 6 is the latest installment of the best music engraver around. There are a bunch of new features in this one that my older version didn’t have.
One of them is “Panoramic View”, which allows …

Grace Notes Explained
Wednesday, 22 Jul, 2009 – 4:49 | View Comments
Grace Notes Explained

Grace Notes in music represent a note that is played so fast that it doesn’t get a beat. Think of it as a blur.
Some times they’re used in order to allow the sheet music to …

Understanding Repeats
Wednesday, 22 Jul, 2009 – 4:41 | View Comments
Understanding Repeats

Repeats in music allow you so not have to write the same section of music multiple times. It allows the musician to simply memorize one section and rather than turn a page or continue reading, …

Counting Sixteenth Note Patterns
Monday, 22 Jun, 2009 – 20:42 | View Comments
Counting Sixteenth Note Patterns

Understanding Ledger Lines
Thursday, 18 Jun, 2009 – 19:30 | View Comments
Understanding Ledger Lines

Ledger Lines allow you to extend the staff both upward and downward in an easy to read way. A ledger line on a Treble Clef can go as far down (even past the bass clef). …

Reading two lines on one staff (stave)
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009 – 12:11 | View Comments
Reading two lines on one staff (stave)

The original is in the staff below. Above is where I circled where the two lines are that a piano player would play. There are two voices, as a result, one if for the left …

Eighth Notes Rests on top of a note
Wednesday, 10 Jun, 2009 – 6:34 | View Comments
Eighth Notes Rests on top of a note

Hi! I just had a question about Eighth Rests. I am trying to learn how to play The Portrait from the Titanic, and there are a lot of Eighth Rests directly above another note. What …

Modulation Explained!
Friday, 3 Apr, 2009 – 8:09 | View Comments
Modulation Explained!

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Modulation is the idea of changing keys in a song. Learn more here!

Class 19: Weird Symbols in Music Explained!
Thursday, 2 Apr, 2009 – 7:00 | View Comments
Class 19: Weird Symbols in Music Explained!

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All those weird symbols in Music Explained!
This is from my Revision 3 Beta Show which is along side the Revision 3 Networks channels. …

Slurs and Ties
Sunday, 15 Mar, 2009 – 13:55 | View Comments
Slurs and Ties

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Understanding 8va and 8vb in Music
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 11:30 | View Comments
Understanding 8va and 8vb in Music

What are Octaves?
This video will help!. Essentially, Octaves are the idea of a same note being 12 semitones higher.
What’s a semi-tone?
A semi-tone is a half step. So a half step from A is A#, and …