does anyone know what that squiggly line right beside a chord in piano, uh the one where you have to roll the chord right beside it (kinda like a gliss. but with specific notes)

...everyone knows what it does but no one knows what it's called :heh:...

i'll try to get a picture of it if no one knows what i'm talking about

I'm dying to know what it's called too! You mean it's when you play all the notes of a chord one right after another really fast? Guitar players do it too, not just piano :glare:

Is this (http://home.comcast.net/~gedlar/FF7_Overworld_Theme_Klutz_Greg_Pak_Ver_-_Piano.pdf)what you're talking about?

I always thought it was just called... broken chords... or something... but I suppose the actual line has a name too... :unsure:

I always thought it was just called... broken chords... or something... but I suppose the actual line has a name too... :unsure:

Broken chords? I don't think so.

Isnt it just called a roll :mellow:

Isnt it just called a roll :mellow:

Are you sure?

Not really. :unsure: I thought I heard it called that somewhere??
Does anyone know?
EDIT-Yes It's a rolled chord

Not really. :unsure: I thought I heard it called that somewhere??
Does anyone know?
EDIT-Yes It's a rolled chord

So, the squiggely line is called a rolled chord? That doesn't sound right to me.

Well in the finale manual it talks about trills and rolls and says that rolled chords are squiggely vertical lines next to the chords.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's called a rolled chord. I bet it has some italian name too, but I haven't heard of it.

um is it rotolato.. :heh: I dont know

Arpeggio?

=.=

Edit: Oh, rolled chord. :P

Oh thats what its called arpeggio? or no :)

whatever, why does the name matter, all you have to know is what you're supposedto do with the symbol

Oh thats what its called arpeggio? or no :)

No, an arpeggio is a broken chord and it's notated in separate notes.

No, an arpeggio is a broken chord and it's notated in separate notes.Um, unless Beethoven was wrong, "arpeggio" is indeed a correct term for this. (Though "arpeggio" can also refer to a series of notes in a chord not played in quick succession...) In the measure just before the 3rd movement of the Appassionata sonata (Op. 57) -- some editions anyway -- the left hand chord is explicitly marked "arpeggio", while the right hand chord is marked "secco" ("dry", i.e. not broken).

Arpeggio' s broken chord. Basically, you press all three notes in a fast pattern. Like 1,2,3. Except you do it like a domino effect.

But for your question, I have no clue. :hey:

...the power of the squiggly line...

aznanimedude - because we want to know what it's called...it's funner that way

There is a technical name for it, but I can't quite remember it at the moment. Not quite an arpeggio. You just play the notes from the bottom note to the top note as fast as you can as separate notes which involves flicking the wrist fast.

I just want to point out that the broken chord scales and the arpeggio scales are different from each other.

I like squiggly lines. o.o

sorry if i misunderstand what you are describing, but are you referring to tremolandi?

You mean Tremolando? That's more like a trill..

i know what they are; i just didnt know if thats what you were referring to

um look at post #2; i believe that is what we're talking about

I believe arpeggiando is a rolled chord.

Perhaps, it's not an arpeggio anyways.

here's a site...not sure if it's correct though http://www.sheetmusicdigital.com/musicdictionaryletterA.asp

alt+f arpeggio

arpeggiando = from the site's i've been going to this is supposed to be for a harp, not sure if it's used for piano

Okay, from external sources I found out that Arpeggio can be used for both Broken Chords and Rolled Chords. However you can establish which one is which by the way the notes are displayed.

I think its called a tremolo, since you do hold the notes as a chord for the given beat, and not let it go right when you play it

yeah that sounds better than what i said.

I still stick with the broken chord; it's the same thing as a rolled chord, I think, and that's what I always learned it as.

I've never heard of tremolo for piano... how is that accomplished? In violin, you have to play notes extremely extremely fast, just sort of vibrating the bow on the string as quickly as you can. How does that work on piano? Is it something completely different? :unsure:

I know how to play it, just don't know what it's called. Don't know how to tremelo on the piano though.

I know for an absolute fact that the true term for this is Glissando, though some people are beginning to call it "Arpeggio" nowadays. >_< I had to check my Theory book to be sure, and it does indeed agree with my first instinct, so there you go; problem solved! :D

EDIT ~ Disregard that. >_< I didn't read the caption in parentheses on the first post.

Here. :P

Tremolo (http://www.geocities.com/jmp24k/tremolo.mid)
Glissando (http://www.geocities.com/jmp24k/glissando.mid)
What we're talking about (http://www.geocities.com/jmp24k/what_we_are_talking_about.mid)

It's an "arpeggio mark."

my my this thread/post/thing is still alive ^^ haha

What is essentially happening is the player is playing the chord, but rather than playing the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th at the same time, he is doing them one after the other. I guess you could call it a fast arpeggio to the chord, because an arpeggio is playing the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th and then back down one after another.

I guess you could also call it a grace not, a not that there isnt strong emphasis on but leads up to a not that has strong emphasis. Except, that is usually just one note, not a chord. Hmmm.....