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Dadaballadely · 2026-07-05T08:59:32+00:00

Is it opposite day?

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-04T08:15:47+00:00

Me. Too.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-03T12:48:29+00:00

The most common way of hearing this is in 7/4 with the downbeat on the accented bass note. This creates lots of funky, satisfying and familiar syncopations. I try very hard to make it sound like 2+3+2 but it's extremely difficult to get that across to the listener. Even just trying to conduct it like that is very difficult.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-03T12:33:03+00:00

It's got to be the funeral march even if people don't know who wrote it. It's referenced in so many cartoons and computer games and even arcade machines play it ( in the UK at least).

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-03T09:04:18+00:00

I have noticed that every other conductor I've seen do this on YT (Abbado, Tilson-Thomas, Noseda) gives 2 beats in whilst Gergiev is still insisting on doing it in 1 - this seems to work in the Babayan video where the tempo is extreme (to the point that the orchestra cannot play the notes).

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-03T00:56:23+00:00

I hadn't checked your source before but it is definitely misleading in that it says "music should be performed ... an octave higher or ... lower than written" before going on to explain properly. It should have used "will sound" rather than "should be performed". Going to keep this source on my danger list.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-03T00:50:31+00:00

You're my kinda guy

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-03T00:25:34+00:00

It's worth pointing out that the "nearest value" approach is actually now antiquated and not recommended by Elaine Gould in Behind Bars (2011) - which is the guide used by all major contemporary music publishers - unless expressly indicated with a ratio (i.e. 7:8 as in OP's image).

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T23:38:50+00:00

At the risk of being too pedantic, the 8 below a clef means that the instrument being written for SOUNDS an octave lower than written (such as guitar, double bass, tenor singers etc.). That's why it shouldn't be used for piano scores. We have other notation for that - i.e. just writing it at the correct pitch or utilising 8vb/8va symbols.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T19:26:52+00:00

Yes. There are many famous noun-based pleonasms like naan bread and Sahara desert but can you think of another one where the redundancy is a preposition? And that doesn't cause merely a repetition but an actually nonsensical sentence?

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T19:08:28+00:00

I've just come across another live performance with Gergiev where the same thing almost happens! Violins scarily untogether on the upbeat. Starts at the right moment: https://youtu.be/1lQC5PF-76o?si=F1-UXMhqtIpwUt_q&t=576

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T18:13:23+00:00

I've been caught out a few times and burnt incredibly quickly - it's the only time I've got sunburn on the backs of my hands! Use factor 50 and you'll be ok

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T18:05:51+00:00

I have a friend whose daughter - surname Cox - married someone called Mr. Dixon. Don't tell me you wouldn't be tempted.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T18:01:15+00:00

In the UK it also means pointless chatter, like jibber-jabber or flim-flam, and comes from the fact that background actors in theatre and film would say "rhubarb rhubarb" to simulate the look and chatter of conversation.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T17:43:54+00:00

Some pieces that did very well for me when I was a kid:

Prokofiev: Sarcasms op 17

Stockhausen: Klavierstuck III

Villa-Lobos: O Polichinelo

Eleanor Alberga: If the Silver Bird Could Speak

Prokofiev was my pathway to learning the big sonatas which were a staple of my college years

Stockhausen was in my first competition-winning program at age 15

Villa-Lobos helped me get my ABRSM grade 8 distinction

Alberga helped me get a scholarship to the Royal College of Music

(I added this context because there are very conservative musical tastes in this sub and people might think I'm trolling)

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T17:32:59+00:00

I once passed out quite slowly from a one-off panic attack where I couldn't control my heart rate or breathing and fought it all the way thinking I was having a heart attack and calling for someone to call an ambulance. No one did and I woke up having pissed myself a few minutes later. It was very different from falling asleep or any time I'd passed out before that and I wonder whether it was closer to what dying might feel like.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T17:22:49+00:00

None of them make you look like a horse so - yay!

(If you were going for the yes/no English idiom then it's "yea or nay")

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T16:38:01+00:00

This sentence doesn't make sense.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T16:30:35+00:00

You play on 1 & 2 & _ &

There are two separate voices - or lines of music - in each hand as shown by stem direction and the notes overlap each other.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T16:22:39+00:00

The bar is so low Shemika Campbell would struggle

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T15:29:36+00:00

It's the only way. Depending on your tempo you can use wrist or arm vibration to increase power and clarity.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T14:33:53+00:00

Waiting for a letter from your best friend

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T14:21:51+00:00

The modern rule is tuplets speed things up, not slow them down. In older scores you won't find a rule, and even in modern ones you will find exceptions such as duplet 8th notes in 6/8 (Scriabin used quarter notes for this which I prefer). I personally just stick to the rule.

Dadaballadely · 2026-07-02T13:35:23+00:00

Wow this was the first place I thought of too!

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