Hi Guys,
I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find a glossary or any info on some musical terms ie a rough definition of what a ie
guitar riff is?
guitar strum
string pad
piano arpeggio
piano comping
brass stabs
etc
What I'm actually doing is compiling a list of phrases that are used in the kn7's easy composer ( for style creation), so I'm trying to catalogue them into some sort of groups.

best wishes
Rikki

This will keep you busy for a while Rikki!

Enjoy..

PS: Btw, the last link is the 'mother of all' Music Glossary links.


http://www.hearts-ease.org/cgi-bin/terms.cgi?data=conservatory&letter=a
http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/musik/glossary.htm
http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~gilbertn/British.html#ALPHA
http://members.aol.com/wowchrisa/glossary.html
http://www.rpfuller.com/gcse/music/terms.html
http://members.aol.com/stlmetros/terms.html
http://www.ocmusic.com/terms.htm
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/glossary/glossary.html
http://www.flashrock.com/dictionary/music_dictionary.htm#S
http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/arts-culture/music/default.asp

Thank You,
I'll start going through them now.

best wishes
Rikki


[QUOTE]Originally posted by Idatrod:
[B]This will keep you busy for a while Rikki!

Enjoy..




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Rikki,

In case you don't have time to look each one up.....

Guitar riff:
a sequence of notes that usually repeats ie: the intro to The Beatles "Daytripper"

Guitar strum:
dragging a pick or finger over multiple strings of a guitar to produce a chordal sound, as opposed to picking single notes. Popular with rhythm players ... just to sing over top of.
aka: 60s folk music(Puff the magic dragon)

string pad:
A lush, sustained sound that "lays under" another sound like a mattress pad lays under your sheets. Covers up lots of empty spots and makes a smooth presentation. The feature sound is louder and more dominant than the pad. Choirs make great pads too.

Piano arpeggio:
Playing the notes of a chord in succession instead of all at once. eg: a C7 arpeggio could be C-E-G-Bb-G-E-C. They don't have to go up AND back, some go up...some go down.... it just means that you break up the chord, one note at a time. They usually repeat. (Intro to "I will survive")

piano comping:
This is just playing the chord changes, like from a lead sheet. It's not a complete arrangement ... just the background chords. You can add accents and little "fill lines" (riffs), but the melody is absent from comping. That's the soloist's job. Think of the beginning to Chicago's "Saturday in the park"

brass stabs:
Very cool way to accent a song. The brass section all hits the same chord at the same time. Usually a short, precise blast and often trails off from high to low.(fall offs)
Stabs are effective to accent a particular beat of a measure. Think of Wilson Picket's "Midnight Hour". The intro is loaded with this type of accent.

Hi Uncle Dave
thank you.
What I'm actually trying to do is work out if these terms have any relavance as far as our arranger's styles go.
ie I'm trying to sort the internal style parts ( Easy Composer section of my kn7 ) into groupings)
I want to create a listing of
pad phrases
arpeggio phrases
bass phrases
drum phrases
strum phrases
stab phrases ( may work)

I'm just at a bit of a loss as to what to call the different types of parts that make up our styles.

I know that Yammis have their style parts called
drum1,drum2,bass, chord1,chord2,pad, phrase1, phrase2 but that doesn't give one a great deal of detail, but there again maybe the simpler the better.

Some of the guys in the Technic forum may be intersted in getting into style creation, so I'm trying to find the best terms to use for the style parts.

thank you so much for your input.

best wishes
Rikki

That's a very good idea.
Instead of a track being called 'chord1', 'chord2' (and same with phrases and pad), if they were given a descriptive name eg strumming, e.piano etc. - it would be very useful for muting and soloing accomp. parts live.

Let's say you decided you want to hear only hi-hats and rythm guitar for a chorus.

You would just mute all the rest (on Yammys I don't thinks you can solo) - you don't have to take a guess at which one is the guitar. They should introduce that on new boards.

The Tyros has beutiful, color icons of the intruments used for all track parts .... selecting them is a breeze.
I'll NEVER complain about Yamaha's approach to navigation. It's the best I've ever seen. I only wish they put the same effort into making the playing surface worthy of their terrific architecture.


[This message has been edited by Uncle Dave (edited 10-17-2003).]

Yes you CAN mute each and every one of the 16 Song tracks and each and every one of the 8 Style tracks if you so desire. And like UD said the Tyros has 'beautiful' "color" icons indicating what instrument is being played you just have to get to know what each 'individual' icon represents by trial and use. A Guitar playing on whatever track will have a Guitar icon represented in the track display but there are "55" different types of Guitars (not including XG Guitars) that have their own unique icon so the trick is identifying each icon with each individual Guitar. But you still have the ability to simply press a panel button that will take you to the actual Guitar Voice being played in the Guitar 'category' of the Panel Voices. Lesser Yamaha Arrangers are more simplified in their representation of what is being played (icons) in the Song or Style tracks, ie., PSR 2000, etc., but they also have the ability to simply press a button to display in any Voice 'category' what unique instrument is actually being played. And the PSR 2000/2100 also CAN mute each and every voice if necessary in the Song or Style tracks too.

Best regards,
Mike