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Dynamics are what scorewriters use to communicate how loud they want a musician to play things.

At the quiet end there's piano, at the loud end there's four... how loud they want a musician to play things.

At the quiet end there's piano.

At the loud end there's forte.

There's also mezzo piano and mezzo forte in the middle

and pianissimo and fortissimo at the extreme ends.

You mark fortissimo with two f's but I've seen people use three or even

four. Seems like overkill to me, but let's ask the horns what they think. The And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcast about Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton, and I'm so glad that you've joined me for another year talking

about music of all dynamics from Pianicimo to Fortissimo and beyond.

We're kicking off 2020 with a widely requested rock epic that definitely

has a lot of dynamics so grab yourself a comfortable seat, turn up the volume, and

enjoy the show.

You can always tell when you're listening to a good band when they're doing lots of dynamics. It's the kind of thing where, you know, if you're not really quite as good, you're maybe focused on the notes and just playing in tune and getting

everything to sound good and the dynamics tend to come last when people are

sight reading music a lot of the times. Dynamics aren't usually happening quite as

much as when they've really got it

dialed in. So when you hear a band that's just nailing, you know, forte

pianos and really quick dynamic shifts together, you know they've really been

practicing and they've got their stuff together. Getting really quiet as a band in particular is like one of my

favorite moves, Count Basie's big band, they were the masters of this. You know, they'd be like,

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