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... pitch, recognizing chord progressions, and identifying sharps/flats? I've been using an ear training app called ToneScholar (https://tonescholar.com) ...

... songs in D or G... I used to play whistle and uilleann pipes on tons of church gigs, and as ... Choir & Organ music ranging from four sharps to four flats, and many guitar-based Praise bands being fond of ...

... a 5-key flute briefly in the past, but sold it and have been playing keyless since 2016 or so. ... now, I have been finding ways to manage the sharps and flats with a combination of cross-fingering, half-holing, ...

Hi! I also play the saxophone and was always a bit annoyed about the struggle to play in other keys with more sharps and flats. So here's my wish: take a good fully keyed simple system ...

... Hz you like. All notes, including their sharps and flats will be declared enharmonic, and all intervals will be perfect. ...

On the "why C?" and "why D?" issues. Does the 'C' come from ... white notes on the piano and it not having and sharps of flats in the key signature? And does the six finger 'D' come ...

I play Balkan and Greek music as well (on clarinet, not on whistle). ... a lot of music from those parts of the world mixes flats and sharps in the scales, and some pieces modulate quite a bit to ...

... which, with the profanities and expletives, would be read as abusive by someone ... is what many pipers use to play false fingered sharps and flats but in the case of the high G, because it is up at ...

... does wind into the whole narrative we find, and I expect there is a bit of truth to it somewhere. ... He developed it because it is louder and the sharps and flats could be played easier and in an even sound quality ...

... Alternatively, a 4-key flute: Eb, G#, F and Bb. Now you can play pretty much all key signatures from 2 flats to 5 sharps. This is a good use case for an antique flute, but you do ...

G minor might mean two flats, or it might mean one flat, i.e. G-dorian. The ... play outside of the key of G (one sharp) or D (two sharps). 8 keys if you want to play the low C note, ... are. Playing a duet with a fiddle player, and the chords were really unusual.

... friends here had some extremely valuable input and also corrected some of my mistakes. My sincere ... of musical quality, he can not play all those sharps and flats clearly enough. I explicitly stated that half-holing ...

If you're playing a piano, or other keyboard, and you're using equal temperament, then there's ... written on the first line of the staff (with 3 flats in the key signature) and we'll call it Eb ... markings). If you're in the key of E with 4 sharps, the next lower note will be called D#, and ...

... keys for the expected key signature order of sharps or flats still makes sense and I'd probably prefer the D#s on our school tuned percussion to ...

Right. Three flats, key of Eb. For the key of E, one of the scale-steps is D#, and that's four sharps. Of all the printed music I've seen, the key of Eb is much more ...