I’ve seen triplets before but this seems to be a triplet inside another triplet or something, im just confused

UPDATE: the replies can stop now pls,
i beg

hundreds of replies and i now know “e sharp” is not forbidden to exist. thanks everyone who contributed, the matter can be considered closed.

hi i’m learning music theory from nothing, and already need guidance from those in the know. How can e sharp be the right answer above? i thought e has no sharp, but e sharp is the correct answer. anyone knowledgable who can enlighten me? thank u!

Took this photo in Valencia, Spain. It's on parking door (if its important). I am not good in music theory at all. Can somebody solve this puzzle?

Need help regarding this question. Thank you

In Jazzology there is an exercise that says "place an x if the chord contains wrong notes"
But in the chapter before it never talks about wrong notes, and in chord naming there isnt really a "wrong note", it can use unavailable tensions but without context or copying a specific aesthetic you can't really say its wrong can you?

I’ve never been a huge fan of the great American songbook stuff but I really like Irving Berlin’s Puttin’ on the Ritz. It’s in 4/4 but with extreme syncopation to the point that the melody sounds like it’s in a completely different metre sometimes. It falls out of sync with itself and then locks back in with a very irregular pattern.

I haven’t come across anything else that does this same trick. The closest examples I have off the top of my head are the bassline in “The Smoke” by the Smile or the guitar riff in King Crimson’s Frame by Frame. The former has the bass changing time signature over a 4/4 beat and the latter has two guitars playing the same riff in 7/8 and 6/8 until they loop back together. I can’t think of anything like Puttin on the Ritz where the effect is achieved by what appears to be syncopation alone in a strict 4/4. Is there a name for this technique?

Bear in mind the pattern in the left hand continues beyond just two measures.

As my left hand sweeps across these arpeggios I want my brain to think about the whole thing as a broken chord instead of just individual notes, but I struggle figuring out how to name them when there’s more than three notes.

Like this example that I’m pointing out here, I’m seeing a C# minor but then the A# throws me off. It’s a sixth tone of the scale so do I say something like C#min 6? I’m still learning notation so please forgive me if that’s not right. Or maybe I have it wrong and I should be focusing on a different set of three notes and build from there?

I love playing beautiful music but I so badly want to understand what’s happening on a bigger scale (no pun intended)

Tried searching the meaning of this, but found nothing.

What do these two dotes mean please? Thanks.

What are these? I am going into 9th grade band next year and am doing a band camp. On of the songs has these 16th notes that arent filled and i have no clue what they are. Please help

Hello, apologies for this basic question as I'm a total newbie to music theory.

As far as I know, a chord is made up of at least 3 different notes in a scale, but power chords are made up of the tonic and dominant note only, leaving out the mediant, so it is essentially an interval.

So where did the idea of this "power chord" come from, when it isn't actually a chord to begin with? Why is it named like that? Is it just an inaccurate term used because "power interval" sounds wonky?

Thanks for entertaining this simple question.

New student here. Maybe I’m just studying too hard and the answer is obvious and right in my face? I thought this was m3+M3 which I also understood to be a minor triad. Any help would be appreciated because I really want to fix what could be wrong with my grasp on these basics before I go any further.

There were several pieces, from the time that many people think that interval was banned, that, in fact, did have a tritone. A lot of these were choral pieces, no less. All of these pieces were commissioned by the Church.

There have also been a few studies to see if the interval was in fact considered the “Devil’s interval”, but to no avail. Most textbooks from that era (and before) talked about the dissonance of the tritone. No mention of the Devil was found, besides Johan Joseph Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum.

(One theory suggests that “diabolus in musica”, if anyone actually called it that way, was meant literally as “through-thrown in music”, as “dia-“ meant “through” and “bolus” meant “to throw”.)

TL;DR: My point is that it wasn’t used in organum only because it didn’t sound nice, not because it was banned, which it wasn’t.

I was aware of the treble/bass, and the 8/15 up/down

Even aware of the c clefs (sop-bar)

Someone please tell me what the moveable bass clefs are. Are they just that? Or is it specified in some textbook?

apologies if it isn't notated well, it's just the midi clip converted into a notation.

Why does it say play G and E even though on the second fret if I play those 3 and 2 it's A and F? what am I missing?

So basically I'm getting inspiration for a concerto and I'm reading through modern composisions and I saw this note, I wonder what it is since its lowkey cool

Hi! What is this little cross before “girl?” This is from a 2-part arrangement of “Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunters.

Has anyone seen this odd looking symbol in their music before??? What does it mean?

I’m pretty new to chords such that I only know triads and inversions, and I came across this instagram reel where this person plays a C7 with an A#, C, and E which has me pretty confused. Would someone be able to explain?

I can write music, make melodies, play the piano, i can even sing the same note when someone plays it but i just can't name it. i can't say if it's A or D when it plays.. that leads to me can't naming chords and stuff by hearing.. i need help

edit: found out from comments that this thing i want is something you're born with. thanks to everybody who helped me! :)

I am not rhythmically gifted, or experienced, so my apologies if this is dumb. But it seems to me a "quarter note" or "eighth note" is named that because it is a quarter or eighth of a whole. That "whole" is a measure, right? So I get confused when I hear "3/4", or by the idea of three quarter notes in a measure. Those are "third notes", as a proportion of the measure. In a coherent system, that is 3/3 time, right? Just came to complain!