Questions tagged [arpeggios]
For questions about playing broken chords, where each pitch of the chord is played successively. Arpeggios are often, but not always, played either ascending or descending. Many questions may also use the `technique` tag.
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Can I safely customize fingering of arpeggios?
I am beginner and by "safely" I mean no surprise, that I learn arpeggios my way, and after N months/years I discover there is some technique based on arpeggios which would require standard ...
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Fingering for left hand accompaniment over two octaves piano
I'd appreciate some help on how to finger the highlighted part.
The sheet came with a lot of fingerings, so it feels to me like I'm missing something very obvious about how this should be played. ...
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two hands arpegiato : simultaneously or left first, followed by right hand?
In this score (Danse Macabre, Saint-Saëns/Liszt)
there is an arpeggiated chord across the two hands: should it be done simultaneously or done first with left hand, followed by right hand?
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Glissando during arpeggiando on string instruments
(Related to this question for the case without glissando)
Consider following example of an arpeggiando on the four open strings of the cello (but the question also holds for violin or viola).
Is it ...
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Fingering for arpeggio in Scriabin's piano sonata no. 1
What fingering is recommended for the righthand section here? I'd originally been using 1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3-4-135, but at around dotted quarter = 80-85 it's started to feel quite difficult and I've hit ...
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When do arpeggiations change the voice leading?
In the top example of the music above, I have composed a simple chord progression with an idiomatic top voice that leads to a cadence.
In the bottom part, I have tried to arpeggiate the right hand of ...
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Liszt Transcendental Étude No.1 (Prelude): tension-ful chord progression in bar 9, 10, 11
I am trying to digest the Liszt Transcendental Étude No.1 (Prelude) chord progression in bar 9, 10, 11 with the full of tensions.
Three related sub-questions.
In both the Zoltán Gárdonyi (1906–1986) ...
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Liszt Transcendental Étude No.1 (Prelude): Top voices on ascending fifth, descending second, descending second
I wanted to follow up to analyze the top voice on the right hand of the Liszt Transcendental Étude No.1 (Prelude).
Here are my (related) questions:
Is the red box note a B-flat or B? (It looks that ...
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Need help with sheet music fragment? It repeats throughout the song so need to be sure
How do I play these notes? I’m aware that I have to play an arpeggio for the top notes but do I play F and C after I finish the arpeggio? Or somehow during the arpeggio??
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What's holding arpeggiated chords in piano called?
What does this technique called? Also, what's the proper notation for this? The audio link is attached below.
https://voca.ro/19p4jeWEK5g8
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It sounds like fast arpeggio repeated over and over ...
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Arpeggiated chords: which order to play, and does it matter if it's right or left hand?
In an answer here Carl Witthoft says the default is that arpeggiated chords are played from lowest to highest. Does this convention apply to both hands? E.g. in Measure 8 of the 2nd movement of this ...
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Broken 7th chords fingering
I'm learning piano and came across an exercise called broken chords, when you play arpeggios for every inversion of a particular 7th chord.
The problem is that different sources use two types of ...
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Piano fingering for fast right hand arpeggio (B-A#-F#-C# in 3 octaves)
What would be the recommended fingering for this descending arpeggio?
(I'm currently using 5-4-2-1 but it's tricky to shift between positions.)
The tempo is somewhere around 1/4 @ 135 bpm.
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How do we play a wiggling line with multiple notes on the piano? [duplicate]
I saw a wiggling line with three notes for a song for piano, and played it and recorded it on GarageBand and edited it on the picture on the right:
I waited about a quarter of a beat to play the ...
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