Chops

Chase

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improvisations where one player performs a melodic riff and other members in the band take up the theme, often adding additio…

Borrowed division

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a term used to describe when a note is divided into an unusual number of smaller notes, for example, when three quarter notes…

Accompaniment

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support provided by harmonically or melodically to the main theme in a piece of music, which although designed to be subordin…

Behind the beat

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when a performer deliberately sounds the notes slightly after the beat set by the ensemble

Doppelgriffe

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German

double stop, a technique of playing two separate notes simultaneously by using two separate strings on a stringed instrument

Double stopping

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a string instrument technique in which the player, placing two fingers on adjacent strings and playing two strings simultaneo…

Imitation

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Theory

Imitation is common in polyphonic writing and helps create coherence between voices. In classical guitar arrangements, imitat…

Melodic minor Scales

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See Table of Major & Melodic minor Scales See Musical Scales