... I still had this longing to play. When I saw someone that played an instrument fluently I would envy them and wanted to start again. One time my dad showed me a couple of chords on his guitar. I learned my first song that I played over and over, like a cd player when put on repeat. I put the idea aside for a while. Then one day my best ... they just wouldn't listen. Switching from one chord to another would take me all verse long. There were also so many chords to memorize, but I stuck to it and went small step at a time. Right now I know most of the important chords and of the basic st...

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... in a dotted rhythm that reappears throughout the entire piece. The melody is carried by the violin which is another characteristic of this work but in the opening, is presented with chords in the piano creating homophonic texture. Aside from the restless development section in this first movement, the wistful mood set by the opening theme is felt throughout the sonata. Moving ... returned the same as in the opening. Turning dark, momentum is built and urgency grows. The urgency ends with pounding chords before the themes are yet again repeated only slightly varied. Tempo slows down as t...

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... modern day. The sonnet he played, 'Is it for fear to wet a widows eye', was a smooth cocktail jazz, which was characterized by the block chords that are played on the piano as well as the chords of similar nature played on vibraphone. Because of his deep knowledge of the piano as well as an extensive listening of recorded jazz music, he ... ...

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... first is the clavichord, a box-like structure in which strings are stretched, and struck by metal blades to produce notes and pitches. The clavichord could be manipulated to produce different chords, but even at it's best, could barely be heard by anyone other than the player. Intent upon creating a superior to the clavichord, musical engineers created the harpsichord. The harpsichord used ... Era and the Swing Era between the 1920s and 1940s, the piano continued to be a major part of all music. The mellow sounds of 1950s love songs gave listeners soothing chords, while 50's rock and ro...

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... staccatos, bounce off my fingertips in a playful and some times impatient manner. "Climb Every Mountain" by Rogers and Hammerstein projects from the depths of my inspiration - creating with great Octavian chords a feeling of powerful motivation. When I am feeling melancholy, Gershwin's tonally minor " Over the Rainbow", clusters the originally pure tones into a clump of dismantled dissonance. "Over the Rainbow" produces a joyous feeling ... - yet when broken chords reveal themselves inside the simple black notes of Gershwin's thoughts, reflections of my broken life shines through. Vivaci...

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... first is the clavichord, a box-like structure in which strings are stretched, and struck by metal blades to produce notes and pitches. The clavichord could be manipulated to produce different chords, but even at it's best, could barely be heard by anyone other than the player. Intent upon creating a superior to the clavichord, musical engineers created the harpsichord. The harpsichord used ... Era and the Swing Era between the 1920s and 1940s, the piano continued to be a major part of all music. The mellow sounds of 1950s love songs gave listeners soothing chords, while 50's rock and ro...

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... the performers. Mulhern's skill at the cello were absolutely amazing. I know how tough an string instrument is to play because I play the guitar and Mulhern had no problem switching between chords and playing with enough intensity for everyone in the room to hear. I could tell Ms. Debow put a lot of feeling into her playing because she was moving her whole body ... ...

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... the band mostly played their own songs which were great. Groovelily has their own sound I would consider to be a mixture between funk, pop and country. The piano often used funky chords. For example instead of using a simple c-major chord he mostly added tones to make the sound more groovy and funky. The beat given by the drums and the piano was ... ...

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... complexity, going up and down the scale in two steps forward one step back kind of way. The simple melody carried in the treble clef harmonizes perfectly with the arpeggio chords of the base clef. Like almost all traditional forms of music, the first movement of the moonlight sonata ends with a tonic chord. Rather than concluding with a loud bang, the piece ... ...

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... his practice guitar, and I kept it for a year. I had no one to teach me guitar, so I taught myself. I went to the bookstore and bought a chord book. After I learned all the chords and music notes, I started to pick up on the guitar pretty easily. One day a boy from school was in the same music store I was trying out a new guitar. After I played ... ...

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... other works, including one piece in Carnaval, a collection of works with literary or other allusive meanings. Two other important elements of Schumann's style are the use of solid, massive, resonant chords and the incorporation of strong dissonances, both of which are present in the previously mentioned works. Robert Alexander Schumann was a nineteenth century German composer during the early romantic period whose ... ...

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