Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus, often in the form of an approved ruling on an issue.
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Proposed tag synonym: [trumpet-or-cornet] = [trumpet]
We currently have a trumpet tag, but there are a variety of questions for cornet which do not currently have an effective tag. I've created a trumpet-or-cornet tag and proposed it as a synonym for ...
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Do we create “stub” or “signpost” duplicate questions?
Do we ever create "intentional duplicates" for questions that have not been explicitly asked, but which have answers in other, related questions?
Case in point
There are several posts in ...
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Locked question “Instruments that are easy on left pinkie fingers” would benefit from [physical-limitations] tag
The question Instruments that are easy on left pinkie fingers is currently (and appropriately) locked. Since it has enough value to be kept accessible, it would benefit from having the physical-...
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Bulk editing: can it be done without clogging the Top Questions page?
It's become something of my hobby/quest to explore old MP&T posts. To seek out sets of related questions. To boldly go To find ways to improve the connections between them for future searchers. ...
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2020 Moderator Election - Results
Music: Practice & Theory's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them ...
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Seeking clarification on disputed flag
I raised a "not an answer" flag on How do I practice arpeggios on the piano?, which was resolved as "disputed". No quarrel with the resolution, just looking to refine my ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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cognitive bias of this site's userbase [closed]
A lot of users on this site are amateur musicians, and they want to feel relevant, so they don't want to admit that the best music was made 60 years ago, making them very irrelevant:
https://music....
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Music: Practice & Theory is scheduled for an election next week, October 26. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of ...
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How can I go about sharing information about a potential opportunity for musicians here
Don't get me wrong, I'm not going for something like promoting an online music group.
But if there an opportunity at an online music group (no money involved anywhere) which I think people here at ...
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Where are we on spelling edits?
I’m not as active as I once was. But I visit once a day. To prevent the “broken windows effect” I sometimes clear up obvious spelling mistakes. And for clarity. I don’t pick up on grammar, capitals ...
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Tag to address disabilities/limitations other than physical
There are currently three MP&T questions regarding dyslexia. With the understanding that this is a small number, and I don't immediately find other questions regarding non-physical types of ...
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I want to start a series of questions on how to compose a song from x popular genre. May I?
I don't know how on other SEs question-series are started, so I thought simply to ask in meta. I want to start a series . Wikipedia does not fill this gap; for example, the article on country music ...
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Is it good or bad form to copy my answer from a duplicate to the canonical question?
I answered a question that was shortly afterward closed, correctly, as a duplicate. I put significant time and effort into developing the answer, so I'd hate for it to be lost because of its question'...
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Is it acceptable to show a specific part of video(s) where someone practices music and ask if there is a name to the movement they do with their hand?
So basically I watched some videos where someone was doing something I found unusual (the way they moved their fingers to press the keys on the piano), so I was thinking there might be a name for that....
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Site health: Acceptance rate (how can we improve it?)
How can we improve our answer acceptance rate?
As I write, there are 18,677 question on MP&T with at least one positive-scored answer, and there are 9,978 questions with accepted answers: a rate ...
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Vote for a solution: Use of unicode accidental symbols adversely affects searches
Issue:
We should standardize our use of unicode accidentals versus keyboard equivalents.
Why there's a problem
Questions and Answers that use the unicode sharp (♯) and flat (♭) symbols (for example) ...
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Should we create a FAQ about Music Theory?
I see a lot of people asking duplicate questions (including me). So should we create one page to list the most duplicated questions so that it can prevent it more effectively than commenting on every ...
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Can I describe a specific piano training/learning situation and ask if it's a bad practice?
The title pretty much summarises my intent.
Basically, I am learning piano without a private teacher but rather following some lessons, because of which I can only rely on following the instructions ...
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Courtesy accidental – FAQ
Every week we have a question (or five) about accidentals. 9 out 10 times the answer is: "courtesy accidental". I can't blame the people who asked the question, because if they never heard ...
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Does piano recycling count as instrument maintenance or is on topic at all?
I recently (something like 1 or 2 years ago) bought an used digital piano off of a comrade who didn't use it anymore.
The instrument is perfectly playable, fit for training, and doesn't show much sign ...
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Is there a way I can write about how this website has benefitted in my music learning journey?
This question itself may sound silly, but it's more of my experience here over the last 1 year that I've been a member. I attempted to give my Music Theory Exam last year through self-study, and I ...
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How should we respond to questions whose answer depends on the genre?
I have noticed a few questions where the answer will depend heavily on which genre the original poster is asking about. In some cases, the question is simple enough that a good answer could say,
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-1 reputation for downvoting. How does it work?
We know that when you downvote a post, you lose 1 reputation. This makes sense because you don't want people randomly downvoting questions without a strong reason behind it. But I have a few doubts ...
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New tag for multiple voices issue helpful?
This question is only the latest of a re-curring kind of question: too many notes in a bar due to multiple voices in one system. It is quite difficult to find one of the numerous duplicates due to ...
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Is a question about sung phonemes on-topic?
I'd like to ask "Over what phoneme is overtone singing possible?", but it seems there currently is no question about phonemes in singing.
Should I ask this question on Linguistics SE instead?
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Should the Help Center be updated?
Today we had this question: The Art of practicing electric contemporary guitar where OP was basically asking
So, I'm a classically trained guitar player who also plays contemporary guitar, mainly ...
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What can we do in self-isolation?
Now the whole nation is recommended to act like musicians usually do. Isn't this touching!
I think most of us don't have to change a lot ;)
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Community Wiki questions about modes
Every other day, a new question about modes arises. Or better the same question rephrased, some variation of "are [mode] and [parent major scale] the same?".
Would it make sense to build some ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Do we need the [identification] tag?
Note: this is not about the on or off topic status of identification questions, this is just talking about the identification tag.
The identification tag is in desperate need of clean up and we need ...
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Edition of a question: how to contact editor?
If someone proposes an edition of my question - how can I contact him for discussing a point?
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transcription how-to
I just learned that questions about transcribing music are off topic.
I do agree that if someone has a tune that they're having trouble notating, they shouldn't be able to just come here out of ...
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Does SE have any policies I should be aware of before requesting a text transcript of an audio recording
I have a recording where someone was talking about a piano's having some kind of problem, but I couldn't find out what it was due to primarily being hard-of-hearing. I can't find anybody to help me ...
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What's the deal with the “guest” posts?
I've been active on this site for a while now, and I'm just wondering -- what is the deal with all the "guest" answers? Is this a single person who just re-registers for a new "guest" account every ...
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Would a question about whether it is possible to play a note on the flute at a certain dynamic and tempo be on topic?
Before I ask the question, sorry that the title is so long. If somebody could shorten it while still getting across what I am asking about, that would be nice. On to the question itself.
So, I have ...
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When is it appropriate to post one's own music/material?
I understand there is a policy that prohibits self-promotion and product placement. But, I'm wondering when it is ok to post one's own material on this SE?
I assume it is acceptable in instances ...
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Is it okay to post products and ask which one is better?
I want to buy a violin and there's none to advise me. I searched through the Internet. Read a lot and concluded on some products. Is it okay if I post them and ask for an opinion? They are online ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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What about introducing a collaboration Zone/Tag on Music?
I posted an answer to a Question about engagement on the site, that was actually intended to be just a comment but grew while I was writing it. Even though I truly mean what I wrote down there, I was ...
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Are book recommendations on topic?
I got interested in basso continuo and so searched the site and found this great question with many useful answers:
How can I learn thoroughbass?
But then I wondered about whether a product ...
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Votes on questions in meta should not be interpreted as endorsing/condemning the topic of the question
I just gave an upvote to a question on meta because I think it is a valuable question to ask.
Upvotes/Downvotes on questions should not be about whether you agree/disagree with the position expressed ...
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Legal to post whole music sheet with fingerings?
I have seen people post segments of music sheets with title in the screenshot such as "Pirates of the Caribbean."
I'm thinking about posting a whole music sheet of a pop song with all my fingerings ...
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Is this question on topic?
I think it belongs on superuser or stackoverflow.
LilyPond - how to write a basic makefile
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Is it ok to link to LilyPond GitHub Repositories?
On other SE sites like code review some people linked to their GitHub repositories to give readers the chance to have look to the code as a whole and not just the snippets used in the question, as ...
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Why is our engagement rate low?
@Dom remarks in Please upvote the questions you answer
The bigger problem I'd say is we only generate 4 votes per answer and 6 votes per question and our question rate is pretty low only about 51 ...
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Please upvote the questions you answer
This is something that I'm very guilty of but I'm trying to improve. Somebody asks a question and I answer it to the best of my ability but I don't upvote the question.
If it's worthy of my time to ...
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Could we have a tag like „puzzles“?
I‘d wish we had a tag called „Puzzles“.
Recently someone asked: What means inuendo. I thought this must be joke as it was clear that was a part of dim...
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Is it important for previous answers and comments to still make sense after an OP edits a question
Wondering about the necessity of editing this specific question: What technique is Eddie Van Der Meer using?
...the OP originally asks about a specific technique starting at 0:21 of the video he ...
