Vocabulary

As a continuation of our last post “What do WE know?” we decided to keep a running list of the music-related vocabulary that we are learning.  Something that we can go back and visit when needed.  We discussed having an on-line document or one on our local NAS.  However, we decided that keeping it in series of Blog posts that can be grouped would add the benefits of sharing the vocabulary with other readers of our blog plus provide the opportunity for someone to expand, expound, or correct us if we’ve not covered a term adequately or correctly.  The start of our vocabulary list is thus:

Drop 2 Chords: A new chord created by taking the second to last note in that chord’s scale and making it the lowest note in the chord.

Pop: Bass playing method where a string is pulled away from the finger board and then released, letting it hit against the frets.

Slap: Bass playing method where a string is hit toward the finger board, making it strike the frets.

Pluck: Bass (or other stringed instrument) playing method using the finger(s) to pull the string(s).

Crescendo:  Indicates a gradual increase in the volume of the music across a musical time period (note, notes, measure, measures, etc.) often notated by an elongated less than sign (<) above or below the music staff.

Capo:  Short for the Italian word capotasto which means head or leader. In music notation, it means the beginning of the piece. For the guitar it can mean the nut, or more commonly a device placed on the finger board behind a fret to raise the strings to the pitch of that fret. Essentially, a capo device, moves the effective location of the nut.

Coda: A term used to indicate the end of a musical passage or anything that is the end of a musical part (song, phrase, solo, etc.)

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