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(1) I can't believe I just listened to an entire Britney Spears track; (2) Yes, an N chord (though not an N6, strictly speaking) very briefly appears as a substitution in one of the final choruses at around the 3:10 mark, beneath the "O" in "overprotected." from leadingtone

haha i thought the same thing

ok…thats what i was thinking…with n6 chords, i can never judge them cause they don’t always sound entirely major to me, but thats just me…

thanks!

-piano-soprano

Posted 4 months ago 2 notes
Someone told me that Britney Spears' Overprotected has a Neapolitan sixth in it... I've been listening to it, but I can't hear where it is. Could you help me? from Anonymous

I can’t figure it out, and no one’s responded so….followers?

Im thinking its either in the first line of the verse, or the second chord of the chorus…but i could be wrong

-piano-soprano

Posted 4 months ago 1 note
hello, i'm having a hard time writing music, (my instrument is the guitar), i've googled many chord progression stuff but nothing really helped me, i want to know how to write good sounding chord progressions, any help would be appreciated :) from reechurd

I’d experiment with different things…i dunno how much theory you’ve had, but definitely try some secondary function chords like secondary dominants, secondary leading tone seventh chords, augmented sixth chords, neapolitan…try some modulation and tonicization (emphasizing one chord)…try to go beyond a basic phrase model (I IV V  V7 I) or something a long those lines…expand on the tonic and the dominant and just basically find something you like…

If anyone has any suggestions, wants to add something, please feel free.

-piano-soprano

Posted 5 months ago 4 notes
What is a good way to increase volume when you're already playing as loud as you can with a good sound? I'm essentially the baritone section at school and I just can't seem to be loud enough. from Anonymous

Strictly speaking as a singer, it is about the use of air that produces more sound. I ind that yoga breathes are great for getting in touch with a good low breath.

Posted 9 months ago

Thought you guys might find this interesting…

leadingtone:

The ninth chord in music results from stacking an additional third atop the seventh degree, and so is generally considered to be an extension of the seventh chord. A few common types of ninth chord are shown here, in closed voicing:

Ninth chords of various kinds are especially prominent in jazz and jazz-inflected music, where they function as analogues or substitutions for their related sevenths as a way of adding color without changing the basic harmonic function of the chord.

Schoenberg opens the chapter on the ninth chord in his Harmonielehre by calling it “the stepchild of the system.” He notes that Schenker did not consider the ninth chord a viable harmonic entity principally on the grounds that it could not be inverted; Schoenberg dismisses this as a “silly hindrance,” and proceeds to demonstrate that it can in fact be inverted and that it can follow the same basic resolution procedures as the seventh chord. He further uses this observation as the grounds for a brief philosophical discussion on the relationship between theory and practice in music.

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Hey there, dumb question I know, but I was just wondering on how piano notes are named? (G2, D5 etc.) Are the notes below middle c a higher or lower number? (Sorry if that makes no sense at all) >.< from Anonymous

It’s not a dumb question. The notes start at the very end of the key board as c1being thr lowest and increase every octave. (so eight notes above that would be c2..etc.) does that help?

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Posted 11 months ago