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  2. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A rapid, usually unmeasured alternation between two harmonically adjacent notes (e.g. an interval of a semitone or a whole tone). A similar alternation using a wider interval is called a tremolo. triplet (shown with a horizontal bracket and a '3') Three notes in the place of two, used to subdivide a beat. triste Sad, wistful tronco, tronca

  4. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    Though power chords are not true chords per se, as the term "chord" is generally defined as three or more different pitch classes sounded simultaneously, and a power chord contains only two (the root, the fifth, and often a doubling of the root at the octave), power chords are still expressed using a version of chord notation.

  5. Chord diagram (music) - Wikipedia

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    Chord diagrams for some common chords in major-thirds tuning. In music, a chord diagram (also called a fretboard diagram or fingering diagram) is a diagram indicating the fingering of a chord on fretted string instruments, showing a schematic view of the fretboard with markings for the frets that should be pressed when playing the chord. [1]

  6. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

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    The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano ), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion.

  7. Resolution (music) - Wikipedia

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    Play inward ⓘ or outward ⓘ Regular resolution in F major Play ⓘ. One common tone, two notes move by half step motion, and one note moves by whole step motion. Resolution in Western tonal music theory is the move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a more final or stable sounding one).

  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. Factor (chord) - Wikipedia

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    Seventh (F) of a third inversion dominant seventh chord in C (G7) (Play ⓘ). Dominant thirteenth extended chord: C E G B ♭ D F A play ⓘ. The upper structure or extensions, i.e. notes beyond the seventh, in red (ninth, eleventh, thirteenth). In music, a factor or chord factor is a member or component of a chord.