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Quick preface, I am actually learning cello, though I haven't heard if this exists – basically I want to mark on a score more than just a crescendo or decrescendo very specifically that the bow should increase in speed and slow down by a certain note. Or the other way around. We have markings to denote bow pressure (light/heavy in various ways) – but are there markings to denote bow speed? I know this can sometimes be up to players to interpret how to express the line, but what I'm hearing (and tested myself on cello) has a very specific fast/slow effect which I would like to notate. Thanks!

I've heard it said that in order to avoid tension in the left hand, you want to simply let gravity do the work. Here's a quote I found - "Touch the string as if you were playing a harmonic and then let gravity alone bring the string to the fingerboard."

However, this doesn't make sense to me in practice. If I simply rest my finger on the string naturally like a completely dead weight, isn't gravity already in action? In this case, simply letting the fingers fall "to the earth" isn't enough, it seems you have to give additional downward pressure for a truly stopped sound on that pitch. Otherwise the string won't touch the fingerboard – you'll just get a light harmonic sound.

I've also heard

I got into lifting ~ 1.5 years ago– I started learning with Stronglifts 5x5 and eventually switched to 5/3/1 with accessory work which I'd been doing for the past 9 months or so. Things were going great, I was developing real muscles and strength for the first time in my life – BF% was down and I generally felt healthier, super strong, less prone to back pain and other issues. At the zenith of my lifting, I was able to squat and deadlift approx 1.75x my body weight, which took a lot of time and work but I was super proud of myself – and I worked with a personal trainer once a month who told me my form was looking great.

Then it happened... One weekend after a heavy lifting week, I tried to

TLDR; Tips for getting past a speed plateau with precise fingers, even if you've been practicing for years?

First I should preface that I've been playing piano off and on but mostly unseriously for maybe 20 years. I took some lessons as a teenager but after that didn't really practice daily or learn to read music until I was in my early 30s when I started to take it a lot more seriously. I was mostly self-taught in terms of music theory, reading, scales, etc. Now I'm 38.

In the past few years, in spite of consistently practicing for sometimes hours a day, I've hit a wall in terms of speed and evenness of fingers, especially when both hands are playing. For example, no matter how much I t

Adult beginner of about 3 months here. Now that I've been playing legato string crossings and double stops, I'm noticing in 1st position it's simply impossible for me to keep fingers 2+4 in tune with each other, and fingers 2+3 are tad hard as well. I am on the smaller side (5'5) with average-small-ish hands, though not that small (I play piano and can span up to a 9th which isn't really a problem for most repertoire). And on the cello combining fingers 1+4 is not a problem at all. It's mainly 2+4.

I'll give an example – within 1st position, if I try to play the G on the D string with finger 4, and the C on the A string with finger 2, I've checked with my ears and a tuner and I just cannot

I'm an adult beginner pretty new to cello, about 2 months in. I actually have had a teacher from early on but some weeks were off due to the holidays and my own work schedule. However when I've met with my teacher, she's told me that my form, posture, and bow hold all look good.

That said, I was practicing cello last saturday and when I went to stand up, I felt the craziest pain in my right leg/calf. I also work out a lot so I figured it was from something in the gym (which it probably is). However it's only gotten worse, making it painful to walk. My doctor is fully booked for the next week so I can't say for sure what it is, but the symptoms sound related to sciatica and/or piriformis syn

38M - About a month ago, I was going to do my usual barbell bent-over row - not even that heavy, around 80 lbs which is less than my usual. I wanted to check my form in a mirror and noticed I wasn't close to one. Instead of being smart and setting the weight down and making sure my core was properly braced, I hobbled forward a few feet to see myself in the mirror, and the moment I got into bent-over position, I felt a pop sensation and sound in the base of my spine. It didn't exactly hurt, but it was scary and I decided in the moment to set the weight down and stop my workout just in case as I don't want to mess around with spinal injuries.

I went over to the stretch mat in my gym and start

So I recently picked up a Tenderfoot Quad Quantizer. Dope module so far, really loving it. There's a transpose input for all 12 keys, but it's designed for 0-5V.

However, because it is for musical keys, I would love to be able to "play" this input with my keyboard, by mapping everything accordingly (C on my keyboard = C on the dial etc). So when I want to move the transposition up exactly 3 semitones, or precisely moving to a specific tonal center, it would be as easy as playing that on the keyboard (you play D, now it's in D, you play G, now in G etc).

However when I try a keyboard, it's obviously not quite responding at all bec

I happened upon this article featuring the pianist Jonathan Plowright, where he offers some practice tips. Specifically, he mentions this harmonic progression exercise:

The only exercises I have ever done were given to me by my teacher Alexander Kelly when I was a teenager, and I still do them now. Created by Oscar Berenger, they follow a simple premise – a shifting harmonic progression (C- D- E- F- G,  C-D-Eb-F-G,  C-Db-Eb-F-Gb, etc)  that slowly and simply moves you up through all the keys.

That sounds interesting and I'd like to try it out. I am an intermediate player with a decent backgrou

The good thing is my name is quite unique and memorable as it's also a short common word (not telling haha). Yet by the same token - the bad thing is my name is a common word... so it's impossible to create handles using it since it's already taken or many iterations on it are taken.

In fact, on some platforms I can or have secured my name – but others I can't. I've heard many times that the best strategy especially for artists is consistency - having the same handle across all social media.

That said, I'm wondering about adding a prefix to my name - musicby, producedby, beatsby, etc like that. Or a suffix (music, studio, productions etc.) A lot of these feel kind of generic, but does it a

I'm trying to make a list of which chords are particularly characteristic to each mode and lend each their distinctive sound, to use as a rough guide for knowing which chords I can choose from to really drive that chosen mode "home." In other words, chords that tell us where we are without misleading us directly to the major scale (Ionian), basically.

In this chart I'm using 7th chords, and all the numerals are referring to the mode as the tonic. I'm purposefully leaving out the tonic chord of each.

I've chosen these using my ear to what sounds the most distinctive and makes me feel like I'm in that mode. But please tell me if I'm crazy or missing any!

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|MODE|CHARACTERISTIC C

38M - I've been doing resistance training the past year... and started Stronglifts 5x5 ~2 months ago so I could really learn all my lifts and build strength from there.

I've been doing ok in the process but this past week sucked. My bench which is was on schedule to be 135 lb I could hardly finish a single set. Kept trying at 130, 125, and was failing those even though I had no issues in previous sessions. Ended up dropping all the way down to 115.

Squats I finished at 185 lb, deadlift at 200 lb. I've been experiencing lots of hip pain on my right side and it's starting to worry me - a few weeks ago I figured that was a sign it is getting stronger, but the hip pain is only getting worse a