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  2. Étude Op. 10, No. 11 (Chopin) - Wikipedia

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    Étude Op. 10, No. 11, in Emajor, is a technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin. It is sometimes known as the "Arpeggio" or "Guitar" Étude. The chief difficulty addressed in this piece is the performance of extended arpeggiated chords. Throughout, the hands are required to stretch intervals as large as twelfths.

  3. Common chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    For example, G major and D major have 4 chords in common: G, Bm, D, Em. This can be easily determined by a chart similar to the one below, which compares chord qualities. The I chord in G major—a G major chord—is also the IV chord in D major, so I in G major and IV in D major are aligned on the chart.

  4. E major - Wikipedia

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    Antonio Vivaldi used this key for the "Spring" concerto from The Four Seasons.. Johann Sebastian Bach used E major for a violin concerto, as well as for his third partita for solo violin; the key is especially appropriate for the latter piece because its tonic (E) and subdominant (A) correspond to open strings on the violin, enhancing the tone colour (and ease of playing) of the bariolage in ...

  5. All the Things You Are - Wikipedia

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    The bridge of this piece, section B, is another example of a functional chord progression in the keys of G major and E Major. In bars 1-4 of this section, it is a simple ii–V–I progression . Using a common chord substitution, the F ♯ º chord in measure 5 functions as viiº in the key of G major and iiº in the key of E minor.

  6. F major - Wikipedia

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    F major is the home key of the English horn, the basset horn, the horn in F, the trumpet in F and the bass Wagner tuba. Thus, music in F major for these transposing instruments is written in C major. These instruments sound a perfect fifth lower than written, with the exception of the trumpet in F which sounds a fourth higher.

  7. Regular tuning - Wikipedia

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    For all-fourths tuning, all twelve major chords (in the first or open positions) are generated by two chords, the open F major chord and the D major chord. The regularity of chord-patterns reduces the number of finger positions that need to be memorized. [20] The left-handed involute of an all-fourths tuning is an all-fifths tuning.

  8. Barre chord - Wikipedia

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    For example, when the current chord is an E major and the next is an F ♯ major, the guitarist barres the open E major up two frets (two semitones) from the open position to produce the barred F ♯ major chord. Such chords are hard to play for beginners due to the pressing of multiple strings with a single finger.

  9. Roman numeral analysis - Wikipedia

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    The seventh scale degree is very often raised a half step to form a leading tone, making the dominant chord (V) a major chord (i.e. V major instead of v minor) and the subtonic chord (vii), a diminished chord (vii o, instead of ♭ VII). This version of minor scale is called the harmonic minor scale.