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How to make my piece feel like a Presto

IntroI am writing a piece in D major that I intend to be at a Presto tempo. This piece that I am writing, at first I intended for it to be a Scherzo. But it would be so short as a Scherzo and I didn't...

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Answer by guest for How to make my piece feel like a Presto

The answer is "harmonic rhythm".Your piece has one chord change per bar throughout (except for bar 16).That makes it sound like it's really an adagio at 48 BPM, except there are a lot of fast notes not...

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Answer by Caleb Hines for How to make my piece feel like a Presto

In addition to @guest's excellent suggestion of having a faster harmonic rhythm, I want to touch on a second suggestion which may seem counter-intuitive.Paradoxically, increasing the number of 16th...

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Answer by Albrecht Hügli for How to make my piece feel like a Presto

You can speed this up to prestissimo - ma non troppo (joke) but it won't be faster.The answer is "harmonic rhythm" is only half the truth. The point is, you are driving on the highway with pulled hand...

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