In music, what does the '#' in C# or F# or B# mean? What is it called and what are the notes with a # called?
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# is sharp. it means a half step up the scale from a whole note. so D# would also be Cb (or C flat, flat meaning a half step DOWN).
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I would say "chords"...\n\nby the way, this is not the correct forum for music questions
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Well, perhaps it means the entire piece or movement is to be played tenuto or staccato? That's all I can really think of - I've never seen a score sheet that has said that.\n\nbtw... if you don't know already...\n\ntenuto means the note or notes are played long but detached from one another. It's usually denoted by a bar over the notes it applies to.\n\nstaccato means the note or notes are played short and clipped and detached from one another. Staccato is usually denoted by a dot over the notes it applies to.\n\nIf the piece you have simply says "detached," then I would go with tenuto.
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Each line is a string on you're guitar.top to bottom...E,B,G,D,A,E. each number is where you fret the string on the neck.  2 would mean two frets up on the line (string) its on. Play on!
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Keyboard or piano music usually is notated separately for both hands, one line with the violin key and the other line with the bass key.\n\nGuitar notes use the violin key lowered by an octave.\n\n\nApart from music notes, guitar music sometimes is written down as tabs, indicating the bound for each string.
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What does C represent?  If C is a constant, then this doesn't converge.\nWhat is the context?  What is the name of the class, chapter and section that this comes from?
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The most common key is C, but that shouldn't matter when you're tuning a guitar. I would reccommend just tuning to a piano, if you have one.
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A key is a set of seven notes with a certain number of sharps or flats. To be more accurate, a key is really just a set of pitches with an established tonal center. There are two modes, major and minor.\n\nIt's very easy to remember the appropriate sharps and flats for a given key. \n\nStart with C Major: no sharps or flats (CDEFGAB, with C as the tonal center)\n\nNow, drop five notes below C, which is F. The key of F Major has one flat (F G A Bb C D E).\n\nDrop five notes below F, which is the key of B-flat Major. B-flat Major has two flats (Bb C D Eb F G A).\n\nAn easier way to remember the major keys is by memorizing the set of steps and half-steps between each note, which is the same for every major key. With major keys, it is (whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half). A whole step is two half steps.\n\nSo, let's say you wanted to know the key of E-flat. The first relationship is a whole step. A whole step from Eb is F. Next is a whole step. A whole step from F is G. Next is a half-step. A half-step from G is Ab. If you follow this set, you discover the key of E-flat Major is (Eb F G Ab Bb C D Eb).\n\n**\n\nNow, for the minor mode. The set of steps and half-steps between each note for the minor mode (whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole, whole). If you look at the set for the major mode, you will see this is really the same set, but the last two have been placed at the beginning.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Four, F#,G#, C#, and D#.
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C# is actually a lot more like Java than it is C++.  They are both object-oriented languages, but C#, like Java, is designed to be compiled to "byte code" rather than an native application (that is, one that will run without the .Net framework).  Most C++ compilers create native applications.\n\nC# also handles memory management issues for you, so you are not required to keep track of what memory you have allocated.  However, it does not guarantee for you when exactly your objects will be destroyed, which can be a pain in some circumstances.
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It acutally means an F chord with a G bass.\nThe C/G you mention is also of this form -- C chord with a G bass.  Play the normal chord, but with a different bass note.
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The bass note is uaually the same as the name of the chord.  For example, a D chord contains the notes D, F#, and A.  The D is the bass note.  The only time (well, almost the only time) the D isn't the bass is if it's a "slash" chord.  For example, D/F# (pronounced "D over F#").  In that case the F# is the bass.  That's what the /F# means.\n\nThe other times the root (or chord name) won't be the bass is for inversions, but that's a more advanced topic so don't worry about that now.
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Good grief - that's a bit of a broad question isn't it?  In one sense music is merely frequency - vibrations that our ears pick up and our brain converts to the sounds we call music.  In historical terms in 'classical' music it comes in a number of categories - roughly speaking it goes Mediaeval music - sort 1200s-1500s, Rennaisance Music, about 1500s, Baroque music, 1600s, Classical Music, 1700s, Romantic Music, 1800s, 20th Century Music and contemporary music.  OK, very rough dates, there are overlaps.  What do you want to know?  There's all kinds of stuff about musical analysis, notation, composing, conducting, performing etc etc
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Midi stands for music instrument data interface or something like that....\n\na computer or machine that uses midi keeps track of the following information....\n\nThe channel of the information (1-16) : there are sixteen possible channels to send midi data\nwhich means you can contral sixteen different sounds on a keyboard or sixteen different pieces of electronic keyboards/samplers depending on what you have connected to the midi network....\n\nhere is the data midi sends: What note and octave range was played....how hard was the note played(velocity) at what time was the note played and what time was the note let go of.  \n\nso in another words I could use a midi program to create midi data in a visiual or grid editor....and by assigning my electronic keyboard the right cahnnel the computer or sequencer will tell my keyboard/sampler/ what music to play....rather than the cheesy sounds we get on our pc's
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Op. stands for Opus, which is Latin for Work. There are 138 works that Beethoven accepted as being fully of his standard and that he assigned Opus numbers to. There are approx. 200 that he didn't recognise as being his best work, and these he didn't assign Opus numbers to. They are often refered to as WOO (or Without Opus).\n\nWhat counts as a seperate movement. Here I'm less well qualified. Usually there is a break in the music (a time to cough!) and usually the music changes in style or mood.Even it's time signature may change, for instance there may be a waltz movement in the middle of a 4/4 piece. Normally a movement is a piece of music that is self contained (which is why Classic FM often only play a single movement of a piece).
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It sounds like the OCTAVE or the set of seven and the ONE becomes the Eight or the OCTAVE.\n\nExamples:  Sound or Music.  Seven notes to the diatonic scale and the eigth becomes the octave or the same note but doubled in frequency.  A=440 Vibrations per second.  The first octave above A= 880 Vibrations per second.  The chord or Triad in music is made up of the notes number 1-3-5 of the scale.  again we see the 3-5 and the ONE is same as the the eight.\n\nLight.  Seven colors to the rainbow and the eight become the same color as the first but doubled in frequency.\n\nThe basic geometry of the Taj Mahal is an "octagon", hence it very pleasing architecture.\n\nthere are many such examples of ONE-Eight codes in nature and in mathematics in "Group" theory and in "numbers theory" ...The number 8 and 24 (3x8) have particular "magical" properties and see to "pop out" of all kinds of situations in symetry.\n"String theory" (superstrings or M theory) in physics  use the "functions" of Srinivasa Ramanujan" that are basically eight in structure...Ramanujan received his "equations" from his deva, the Goddess Hammakal??...He recieved up to 12 of these per day although he was "self taught" in mathematics.  He lived in the 1850's.\n\nCyril Borg, the Cyborg
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A  \n   --0--\n   --2--   \n   --2--\n   --2--\n   --0--\n   -----\n\nZero means the string is open.\nTwo means you push down on the second fret.\nThe lowest sounding string is the bottom line.\nThe highest string is the Top Zero.\n\nC          D\n--3--   --5--\n--5--   --7--\n--5--   --7--\n--5--   --7--\n--3--   --5-- \n-----   -----\n\nNotice The chords are the same, but moved "up" the neck.\nPlay around with these, then go further into "open chords"