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We have a whole note here and it’s actually a D 5 chord. So, you know that here is D, A, D and A. So it’s a D 5 because there’s no third in the chord. So anyway, if you want to understand what a Sforzando is, it would be actually written out as SFZ. Sforzando and I believe it’s spelled like this. Open note, Sforzando okay?
And whatever it does that it literally gives you a hard articulation but then it brings the note down and level and then swells back up in terms of its dynamic rate so it sounds like this.
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Like that, so it hits, it’s go down and it explodes back up. So, you see that a lot of times and in a lot of film music when you want to create tension and you also see at the end of the music sometimes and at the beginning of the music. So if you have very low note and you want kind of hit that powerful kind of swell then what you’ll do is Sforzando.
There are a couple of things. There’s the opposite of that which will actually hit hard and then diminish so you would this. You could give it an articulation like this. You see that triangle on top. This means to attack and attack in music means to accent. In accent, means to attack very hard. So sometimes if you have a lot of notes like this, you can say attack these notes and attack these notes very well if you play off to this one. So, you do like this.
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That’s the idea of the three things that we just spoke about, accent, diminuendos and sforzandos and also you have a crescendo. A crescendo is exactly the same as a sforzando but what you don’t do on a crescendo is that you don’t accent it. So, the crescendo is just—
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Whereas the sforzando is—
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So you actually hit it hard then bring it down then bring it back up. The diminuendo, you actually just go—
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And it kinds of like it fades out and accent is obviously, you just accent it. Those are the four things that will make your long notes make it like a core. Another common technique that is used is, let’s say right here, we’ll take this half note and let’s hide it to another half note. Let’s high it to another half note and make this a trill.
So, a trill will actually make your half note sound or any long notes sound a little more embellished in that it’s the idea of repeated attacks. The trill would look like this and you would start trilling so its’ almost like this.
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So, trills are actually multiple attacks and that’s what they do. This is actually a tremolo. So, that’s what we just did. Trills are something different. This is the idea of trills right there and what a trill does is it actually goes in the next note higher back down. It goes up higher and then it comes down lower so a trill actually the sound like this.
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So, this is the trill if you were to write it out but if you don’t know how that sounds but if you don’t want to worry by all its sounds because you want to read it, you write it out like that.
So, those are things to make your long notes sound a little bit better and any questions, let me know and that’s it, guys. I hope you all well. Peace, love and harmony, don’t forget to subscribe, write in comment. I’ll see you back here tomorrow.
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