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A unit that counts how often a periodic phenomenon occurs in a certain amount of time. It’s counted in repetitions per second. Similar to RPM (rounds per minute), where time…

Aka hiphop. Yes, you can skip the hyphen, although I don’t like how it looks like this. It’s more of a movement rather than just a music genre, as it…

The change in the chords, the progression of the harmony within a composition.

Now, this is a treat for me. It has music, mathematics and physics, all in one big bite. Let’s imagine an electric guitar (it’s easier, as its sound is amplified,…

Pythagoras is to blame for this one. It’s him who demonstrated the relation between the fractions of a string and the intervals of the notes. So, harmony is when we produce…

The counterpart of the chest voice. Think of a soprano singing an opera or something else high pitched. That’s the head voice. The quality of the sound we make using…

It’s the range of sounds that can be heard by humans or other animals. Different species have different hearing ranges.

A scholarly acceptable (aka classy) way to say that a music scale has one or more semitones in it. Also, see anhemitonic.