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  2. Block chord - Wikipedia

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    Block chord. A block chord is a chord or voicing built directly below the melody either on the strong beats or to create a four-part harmonized melody line in "locked-hands" [1] rhythmic unison with the melody, as opposed to broken chords. This latter style, known as shearing voicing, was popularized by George Shearing, but originated with Phil ...

  3. Locked hands style - Wikipedia

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    Locked hands style is a technique of chord voicing for the piano. Popularized by the jazz pianist George Shearing, it is a way to implement the "block chord" method of harmony on a keyboard instrument. The locked hands technique requires the pianist to play the melody using both hands in unison. The right hand plays a 4-note chord inversion in ...

  4. Tone cluster - Wikipedia

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    The last two bars, played with overlapping hands, are a denser cluster. A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale. Prototypical tone clusters are based on the chromatic scale and are separated by semitones. For instance, three adjacent piano keys (such as C, C ♯, and D) struck simultaneously produce ...

  5. Royal road progression - Wikipedia

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    IV M7 –V 7 –iii 7 –vi chord progression in C. Play ⓘ One potential way to resolve the chord progression using the tonic chord: ii–V 7 –I. Play ⓘ. The Royal Road progression (王道進行, ōdō shinkō), also known as the IV M7 –V 7 –iii 7 –vi progression or koakuma chord progression (小悪魔コード進行, koakuma kōdo shinkō), [1] is a common chord progression within ...

  6. Dominant seventh sharp ninth chord - Wikipedia

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    5–32 / 7–32. In music, the dominant 7♯9 chord[ 1 ] ("dominant seven sharp nine" or "dominant seven sharp ninth") is a chord built by combining a dominant seventh, which includes a major third above the root, with an augmented second, which is the same pitch, albeit given a different note name, as the minor third degree above the root.

  7. Piano key frequencies - Wikipedia

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    Piano key frequencies. This is a list of the fundamental frequencies in hertz (cycles per second) of the keys of a modern 88-key standard or 108-key extended piano in twelve-tone equal temperament, with the 49th key, the fifth A (called A 4 ), tuned to 440 Hz (referred to as A440 ). [ 1][ 2] Every octave is made of twelve steps called semitones.

  8. Eight Easy Steps - Wikipedia

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    Music video. "Eight Easy Steps"on YouTube. "Eight Easy Steps" is a rocksong written by Alanis Morissettefor her sixth studio album, So-Called Chaos. The album's opening track, it was released in 2004as the So-Called Chaos's third (and final) single. The song may be seen as discussing self-help, with the message that it is the "course of a ...

  9. Étude Op. 10, No. 5 (Chopin) - Wikipedia

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    See media help. Étude Op. 10, No. 5 in G ♭ major is a study for solo piano composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830. It was first published in 1833 in France, [ 1] Germany, [ 2] and England [ 3] as the fifth piece of his Études Op. 10. The work is characterized by the rapid triplet figuration played by the right hand exclusively on black keys ...