Playing Chords One Note at a Time

October 22nd, 2008 by admin

When you add one note to a pair of different notes, you get a sound that is two or three times fuller. The sound is not enhanced by the bare 50%. It sounds much bigger, fuller, more complete. Why is this so?
Is it just a cultural factor of Western harmony? Or is there a scientific [...]

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The 80/20 Rule in Practicing Music

October 14th, 2008 by admin

From Wikipedia we have “The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle for more.)
Applied to learning music we get this, 80% of the benefit of a [...]

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