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How to Get the Best Electric Guitar Tone for Rock Music

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Rock and roll can be performed as clean or as distorted as you please, since there are so few rules in playing rock. That's what makes it such an expressive sound. You intro to playing rock will include ways to use your equipment to get a really ... more »

How to Get the Best Tone on an Upright Bass Guitar

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Getting the best tone from an upright bass depends upon the player's hands and the left hand in particular. A good quality upright bass delivers a fine tone, but the upright bass' tone is in the player's ability to position the left hand to ... more »

How to Get the Jazz Sound From Your Guitar

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Jazz is an American style of music that originated in the early 1900's. Jazz guitars are made specifically to create a jazz sound but that doesn't mean you have to use a jazz guitar to get a jazz sound... more »

How to Get the Jazz Tone From Your Amplifier

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Jazz music has a full, mellow sound. Getting this tone out of an amp is crucial when playing the jazz guitar. The right amp settings completely change the sound of the music. Some amps are made with jazz music in mind like the Fender Twin, Fender ... more »

How to Get the Musty Smell Out of a Trumpet Case

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By using coffee beans you can get a musty smell out of an old trumpet case... more »

How to Get the Proper Body Posture to Play Snare Drum

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The snare drum has one of the most recognizable sounds in a marching band or drum line. For those just learning to play the snare drum, learning proper body posture is one of the essential skills to master before moving on to more advanced ... more »

How to Grease the Corks on a Clarinet

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Maintaining your clarinet is a worthwhile task since it allows you to keep your instrument in great working condition. One of the ways to do this is to apply cork grease, which is a lubricant, to all the corks on your clarinet. The corks hold the ... more »

How to Handle a Trumpet

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Learn how to maintain your trumpet to maximize your performance!.. more »

How to Harmonize on Jazz Guitar

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Learning how to harmonize is one of the most important aspects of playing any instrument. Jazz is no exception to this notion and can in some cases be even more difficult to harmonize because melodies and standard music theory works a bit ... more »

How to Harmonize on the Piano

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Harmony is one of the basic yet most complex theories behind music. Learning to play harmony on any instrument is usually best accompanied by the ability to harmonize on the piano. The piano is the premier instrument used for harmonizing and is ... more »

How to Harmonize With Pitch Shift Effects for the Electric Guitar

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Pitch shift effects for the electric guitar are created by microprocessor-based devices that alter the pitch or tone of the sound created by the guitar. It takes some skill and computation to create different frequencies, so don't expect to ... more »

How to Harmonize With the Major Scale in Jazz Guitar

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Harmonization of a major scale has been utilized since the beginning of jazz to help guitarists create diatonic chords or chords beginning on the key. To harmonize a jazz guitar, you must first be able to make a major key... more »

How to Have Proper Right Hand Posture in Flamenco Guitar

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The flamenco guitar playing style requires the performer to be energetic with swift fingers. The positioning of the right hand is the key to proper performance. The right hand must not only be dexterous but be able to play each string comfortably... more »

How to Have Range in Clarinet as a Beginner

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The clarinet has a very wide range. With three and a half octaves, the clarinet has the largest range of all the woodwind instruments. Each register sounds distinctly different from one another. The bottom of the range is very low vibrato notes. ... more »

How to Hit a Tambourine

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The tambourine is a percussion instrument used in many different types of bands and music. It is usually played with the hands, but can also be played with a mallet or a drum stick. There are different ways to hit a tambourine. Each different way ... more »

How to Hit Altissimo Notes on the Sax

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Altissimo notes are higher pitched overtones that you play above the normal range of the saxophone. The altissimo range hits notes in the third and fourth octave. Playing altissimo notes on a sax requires a firm control of all the elements ... more »

How to Hit Clarinet Notes

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The sound emitted from a clarinet is controlled by the movement of your tongue against the reed. This is called articulation or tonguing. As you blow air into the instrument, the reed vibrates. This vibration causes the sound. Once you touch your ... more »

How to Hit Lower Notes on a Flute

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When thinking about flute music, high pitched trills are usually the first thing to come to mind. Just as lovely, but harder to play, are the low rich melodic notes of the flute. With practice and proper flute maintenance, you can hit those rich, ... more »

How to Hold a Cello Bow

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One of the first steps in playing the cello is learning how to hold the cello bow properly. You need to learn the proper bow hold in order to play the cello well, so follow these steps to help you learn this crucial skill... more »

How to Hold a French Horn

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The French horn produces a rich sound to complement the brass section of any band. With nearly twelve feet of tubing wrapped into this circular horn, it is one of the more challenging instruments to play... more »

How to Hold a Guitar While Sitting

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Holding your guitar correctly and keeping your body in proper posture will make your guitar playing experience easier and more comfortable. The following steps will show you how to hold an acoustic guitar while sitting if you are right handed... more »

How to Hold a Harmonica

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Playing the harmonica can be lots of fun. But before you start taking lessons or playing the blues, you need to understand that how you hold your harmonica affects its tones. Holding a harmonica properly gets the best sounds from it... more »

How to Hold a Saxophone Properly

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If you are learning to play the saxophone, holding it properly is an important part of the process. Proper holding technique makes the saxophone easier to play because you can get more air into your lungs... more »

How to Hold a Tenor Saxophone

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When most people think of jazz music, they associate the sound with a tenor sax. The tenor sax puts out a lower range of sound than the alto sax, but higher than the baritone sax. In order to play the tenor sax well, you must first learn to hold ... more »

How to Hold the Accordion

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The accordion is a relatively bulky and sometimes awkward instrument to handle. You have to master where to distribute the weight on your lower body so you can get your whole upper body into the action of playing. Knowing how to properly hold the ... more »

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