Musicians' jargon. Rocker's Dictionary
If you have just recently discovered this huge world of rock music, then this article is just for you. Here you will learn a lot of new words that rockers love to use when communicating with like-minded people.
Underground - underground music. Before 1980, virtually all rock was underground. Now the most radical punk and avant-garde groups are called underground.
A blank is the basic version of multi-channel sound recording. Usually percussion instruments are recorded on it.
Bootleg - cassettes or records replicated without the knowledge or consent of the musicians. As a rule, bootlegs include unauthorized recordings from concerts.
Knit - an unscheduled termination of a concert, accompanied by the detention of musicians, organizers and part of the audience.
Jam is a joint informal music making of performers from different groups.
Drive - intensity.
Drums are percussion instruments.
Factory is synonymous with drive, but a little more in a broad sense. This is the ability of musicians to excite and warm up listeners.
Image - stage image musician. It is created with the help of clothes, makeup, hair, a special manner of acting on stage, and facial expressions.
Kabak is a relatively cheap restaurant.
Kancik is a shortened version of the word "concert".
Apartment party - a home concert, a performance of a rock band at someone's flat, accompanied by the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Carpet - cover for a CD or DVD.
Keyboard - keyboard instrument.
Labuh is a disparaging nickname for restaurant musicians or musicians playing in a tavern style.
Slack - a false note or unrhythmic playing, etc.
Master - original film with studio sound recording.
A manager is, in underground practice, a person who arranges concerts for a group.
Mouzon - music.
Mainstream is the main direction of any music, the combination of its currently most popular characteristics.
Decoupling is behavior on stage in the most relaxed manner possible.
Gadgets are a generalized name for all kinds of sound effects and processors.
Promotion is an active propaganda campaign to introduce a new song, album or group into the consciousness of the audience.
A riff is a short, repeated musical phrase played in unison by the guitar and bass guitar.
Rocker - rock musician.
Samopal is a homemade musical instrument.
Sound - sound, the sound of a group both at a concert and on a recording. It consists of several components: arrangement, sound balance, playing style, style of sound production, quality of equipment. Along with the composition, text and skill of the performers, it is the most important characteristic of any rock work.
A single is a small record (45 rpm) that most often contains two songs.
Session is the name of a rock concert.
Shoot - copy. Shooting “to zero” or “one to one” means close enough to the original.
A scoop is something short-lived and of low quality.
Banter - to fool, ironize, mock, while maintaining an innocent appearance. During the years of stagnation, banter was the safest way for rock authors to express their attitude to reality.
Ström is a risky person, on the verge of what is permitted. As a rule, the darkest lyrics are those that are ideologically and artistically questionable.
Sampling - recording sounds by digital recording into the timbre memory of the music computer. The tool that allows you to do this is called a sampler.
Top - the top, the elite.
Fenka is a highlight, a successful find in music or image.
Branded - foreign. The stress in a word can be placed on any syllable.
Freebies are free.
Hit - very popular song. Sometimes the entire group is called a hit, meaning that big success she is provided for.
A Happening is an eccentric theatrical performance. Most often it unfolds spontaneously and covers part of the audience.
Ches - hacky tours in provincial cities, when up to three concerts are given per day. Once upon a time this word was used only among musicians of philharmonic societies.
Knowing and using all these words appropriately, you can easily become “one of the people” in any rocker company.
A fairly complete explanatory dictionary of the language of rock musicians and journalists would take up a lot of space. Therefore, the proposed “glossary” is limited - and from two sides at once.
Firstly, it did not include many popular words of youth slang that do not have the most direct, specific relationship to rock - say, “party”, “high”, “bummer” and many others. Secondly, it does not seem necessary to explain many specific technical terms, for example, the names of electronic effects (“wah”), playing techniques (“slap”), types of earnings (“parnos”), etc. The dictionary is compiled at a “professional” level amateur" - which, by the way, is the majority in the rock community.
Underground (English)- literally, underground music. Before 1980, virtually all of our rock was underground. Until 1985 - all “non-philharmonic” rock. Since all groups received the right to perform legally, underground rock, in the strict sense of the word, does not exist in our country. Now the most radical punk and avant-garde groups are called underground - which, in general, corresponds to the international understanding of this term. Some style variations even include the latest Adidas sneakers, which can be purchased at official internet store with delivery throughout Russia.
Blank— a preliminary, basic version of multi-channel sound recording. As a rule, percussion instruments, bass and rhythm guitar are recorded on disc. Then the vocal parts and instrumental solos are overdubbed, and finally the final mixing (or “mix”) of all recorded audio tracks is carried out.
Bootleg (English)- cassettes or records replicated without the knowledge or consent of the musicians. As a rule, bootlegs include unauthorized recordings from concerts.
Knit (screw), knitting- a frequent ending to underground events: a ban or forced termination of a concert, accompanied by the detention of musicians, organizers and part of the audience.
Jam (English)— joint informal music-making of performers from different groups. Occurs sometimes after big concerts and festivals. The music is almost exclusively traditional rock and roll and blues.
Drive— intensity, degree of energy output in the game.
Drums (drums), drumsist (English)- percussion instruments, drummer.
Factory- approximately the same as drive, but in a slightly broader sense: the ability of musicians to stir up the mood and engage listeners.
Image (English)— stage image of a soloist or the entire group. It is created with the help of clothes, makeup, hair, a special manner of acting on stage, and facial expressions.
Kabak- in a narrow musical sense - cheap, restaurant style, style of performance.
Keyboard (English)- a keyboard instrument, usually electronic.
Labukh- a disparaging nickname for restaurant musicians or musicians playing in a tavern style.
Screw up, screw up- in a broad sense: mistake, trouble; do something wrong. In musical practice, accordingly, there is a false note, unrhythmic playing, incorrect text, etc.
Master (abbreviated from English "master-tape")— original, “zero copy” of film with studio recording.
Manager (English)- in underground practice, concert organizers. Nowadays it is increasingly used in its real meaning - “the manager of the affairs” of a particular artist or ensemble.
Mouzon- music. The word has a rough artisanal connotation and is used mainly by professional musicians.
Mainstream (English)- literally, "the main channel" of any musical direction(rock, jazz, pop), the combination of its currently most popular characteristics.
Untied, untied- behave on stage in the most relaxed manner, give the heat, no matter what. Particularly outrageous concerts often end in scandals.
Lotions- a generalized name for all kinds of sound effects and processors - “fuzz”, “crossover”, “chorus”, etc.
Unwind, unwind- an active propaganda campaign to introduce a new song, album or group into the consciousness of the audience. As a rule, “their” channels on TV, radio and the press are used for this.
Riff (English)- a short, repeated musical phrase played in unison by the guitar and bass guitar. Very often - especially in hard and heavy - entire songs are built on one riff.
Rocker (from the word "rock")- the same as a rock musician. True, in Lately they began to be confused with “informal” motorcyclists.
Rap (English)- literally, "chatter." A technique that has become popular since the mid-80s is to quickly rhythmically recite the lyrics of a song instead of singing them. Practiced not only by rock singers, but also by some disc jockeys.
Samopal- a homemade musical instrument, a piece of sound equipment.
Sound (English)— sound, the sound of the group both at a concert and on recording. It consists of several components: arrangement, sound balance, playing style, sound production style, quality of equipment (or recording). Along with the composition, text and skill of the performers, it is the most important characteristic of any rock work.
Single (English)- a small record (45 rpm), usually contains two songs.
Session (English)- the “old hippie” name of a rock concert that still exists today.
Take off- copy, reproduce famous (usually Western) samples. Shooting “to zero” or “one to one” means close enough to the original. Previously, entire songs were filmed, including the vocal part in the original language. Now they take individual favorite fragments (an instrumental solo, an arrangement technique, a piece of melody) and use them organically.
Scoop, scoop- something close-minded, of low quality and smack of officialdom. Say, the characteristic "soviet festival" would presumably mean that the rock festival was poorly organized or took place in a formal setting. The title “scoop” can also be awarded to people.
Banter, mock (Leningr.)- to fool, ironize, mock, while maintaining an innocent appearance. During the years of stagnation (also the heyday of Aesopian language), banter was the safest way for rock authors to express their attitude to reality. Now it is gradually going out of fashion.
Ström, sköm- risky, on the verge of what is permitted. As a rule, the darkest lyrics are those that are ideologically and artistically questionable. However, there is also a terrible image and terrible music. As a matter of fact, all Soviet rock until some time it was a complete storm.
Sampling (English)— recording sounds by digital recording into the timbre memory of a music computer. The tool that allows you to do this is called a sampler.
Top (English)- top, elite. To get to the top, to be at the top - to have success, to be popular.
Fenka (less often - chip)- a highlight, a successful find in music and image.
Company, branded- foreign. A branded self-propelled gun is a locally made tool, but with all the foreign labels. The stress in the word "company" can be placed on any syllable.
Freebie (for free, free)- for nothing. IN figuratively- shoddy, cheap, small. For example, the expression “freebie concert” can be understood in two ways: a concert for which the musicians were not paid anything, or, on the contrary, an easy hack job that they themselves “gave for free.” Very often, however, these two meanings coincide.
Hit, hit (English)- a particularly popular song. There may be one or two of these in the ensemble’s current repertoire. As a rule, there are also old hits, beloved by the public, performed as an encore. Sometimes the entire group is called a hit, meaning that it is guaranteed great success.
Happening (English)- an eccentric theatrical performance. Most often it unfolds spontaneously and covers part of the audience.
Ches- hacky tours (usually around the province), when up to three concerts are given per day. Once upon a time this word was used only among musicians of philharmonic societies.
Talk Dirty To Me
OR A SHORT COURSE IN ROCK MUSIC SLANG XX �
The history of slang in musical works of the last century, in particular in works of rock music, is probably as old as rock music itself. One gets the impression that the main semantic load of rock has always been and, probably, will always be a certain rebellious subtext, a desire to shock the respectable public and shake the foundations of a civilized society. Therefore, slang, being mainly the language of the “lower stratum” of this very society, very organically fit into the arsenal of rebellious music and everything that surrounds it. A fusion of criminal slang and youth slang, musical slang “poetically” describes such characteristic forbidden topics as sex, drugs and alcohol. 
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You ain't nothing but a Hound dog. The birth of rock music
In general, if you take a short excursion into history, then the very concept of rock and roll (rock and roll) is a product of the same slang.
The name of the genre comes from the old black blues, in the lyrics of which a man addresses his woman: “I wanna rock and roll you all night long,” which can roughly be translated as “I want to rock and roll you all night long.”
Later, the three components rock - and - roll merged into an independent unit of speech and even acquired the function of a verb. At the beginning, the words “pump” and “roll” had a very definite sexual connotation. Adjusted for morality and commerce, over time original version The “black” meaning of the words “rock” and “roll” was smoothed out, and they were quite successfully tied to the dance steps that were performed by both the performers of this music and the audience dancing to it.
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In general, rock music was a very fertile soil for slang, having fallen into which, the seeds of a non-literary language grew wildly, giving rise in turn to new bizarre species. If pop music by its very name already tried to please everyone (pop is short for popular) and was always too sleek, then rock, which, again, had a rebellious character, had to keep the brand of a sort of bad guy. And, accordingly, look, behave and talk defiantly.
You got another thing coming. Features of musical slang
Of course, absolutely every verbal work can be expressed in both classical literary and everyday colloquial language - but sometimes this means a complete loss of expression of what is written. But in rock music, which itself is extremely (sometimes even too) expressive, this would simply be unacceptable. The use of slang endows musical lyrics with weighty images and concepts, partly jarring to the ear, and partly having subtext or double meaning, which is not immediately apparent. (And some are not given it at all.)
Most often, slang words and expressions in the lyrics of songs are not of any offensive or hooligan nature, but are used for brighter artistic expression. Often this role is played by stable idioms: “Another One Bites The Dust”, “Dog Eat Dog”, “Shoot From The Hip”, “Alive And Kicking”, “Be All, End All”, “Between A Rock And A Hard Place” "and the like, most of which are rooted in the vernacular, and are now no longer slang as such.
It happened that units of slang even characterized entire trends in rock music, as was the case, for example, with acid-Rock - the very concept of “acid” appeared in the 60s and referred to the chemical drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).
Another “talking” name was the term sleaze-rock, which was born 20 years later - in the mid-80s.
It is worth noting that according to the division of slang into varieties, separate musical movements focused on one type or another. And if the prerogative of the same sleaze rock were words and expressions associated mainly with drinking, drugs and girls, then the pillars of other genres tried to go beyond this. 
Thus, in the death-metal style, the professional slang of pathal anatomists prevailed, and in order to understand what is being sung (and actually growled) in the songs, you should stock up on at least a specialized medical dictionary.
Lost in limbo. Alcohol slang in rock music
Alcohol walks side by side with rock musicians. And although it cost many artists not only their health and careers, but even their lives, it has not lost its relevance to this day. Musicians inherited some of the alcoholic slang from their drinking predecessors.
For example, the word “booze”, widely used in songs, has been known in Britain since the 16th century and means drinking in a slang sense - like our non-literary word “booze”. This is perhaps the most commonly used concept to refer to an alcoholic drink. (Out with the boys testing my virility, the booze and the music arousing my curiosity)
The person in drunkenness most often characterized by the adjective “loaded” - that is, piled up. Sometimes the preposition on and the name of the drink consumed are added. (Loaded on beer. Loaded on whiskey.)
Well, after heavy libations the day before, many are burdened by an extremely unpleasant feeling called a “hangover.”
Rockers are people too, and sometimes they describe their experiences in their creations. And some even included this state in the names of their albums. This is how the Scottish team NAZARETH called their album “Hair Of The Dog” back in 1975. 
which is short for old proverb“To take a hair of the dog that bit you” (in the sense of “They knock out a wedge with a wedge”) and characterizes the process of getting drunk.
Done with mirrors. Drug slang in rock music
In the mid-60s of the last century, a threat appeared even worse than the notorious sexual revolution - the drug revolution in art. Naturally, this was reflected in literature, painting, and cinema, but rock musicians, as usual, took the new fashionable hobby to the extreme. And at the same time, drug addict slang poured into the lyrics, saturating them with new allegories and images.
One of the most scary words The notorious “high” became the order of the day, which was used - like a generally accepted homonym - both in the form of an adverb and in the form of a noun. And in some ways it even resonated with him in meaning. In the first case, as an adverb, high could be translated as flying away, getting high - that is, feeling the effect of one or another drug. (To get high. To be high. To feel high.) As a noun, high meant the drug itself, and if we draw a parallel with our jargon, then dope or high are very close in meaning. (To be on high).
In some cases, hints of hallucinogenic substances in the lyrics were pulled out of thin air, as was the case with THE BEATLES' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (the abbreviation of the song's title supposedly spells LSD). 
Somewhere they were obvious (like, say, “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix - a big fan, it should be noted, of expanding consciousness). But some shamelessly created monumental hymns to their passions. BLACK SABBATH, for example, has at least two of them: “Sweet Leaf”, which begins with a characteristic cough, and “Snowblind”, in the chorus of which “cocaine” is pronounced in a whisper - so that it becomes extremely clear which “snowball” we are talking about.
By the end of the 70s, the LSD culture, along with its apologists like Timothy Leary
and the group GREATFUL DEAD lost
relevance, and the consciousness of the “creative intelligentsia”, literally and figuratively, was taken over by more powerful means. They also used their own special words, one of which was the noun “shot”.
It meant a portion of the drug injected through a syringe - the equivalent of our concept of “dose”. In some cases this noun was also used in figurative meaning, like “Shot Full Of Rock.”
Like alcoholic slang, narcotic slang also had its own units that characterized the state of a drug hangover - withdrawal or withdrawal. After treatment for his characteristic addiction, John Lennon wrote “Cold Turkey,” describing the sensations he experienced (the term “cold turkey” is believed to have come from the bluish-colored “gooseflesh” that accompanies withdrawal): “... My body is aching, goose -pimple bone, can"t see no body, leave me alone.../ Thirty-six hours rolling in pain, praying to someone, free me again..."
(My body hurts, covered with goose bumps, I don’t want to see anyone, leave me alone; I’ve been tossing around in pain for 36 hours, crying out to someone to free me from this). 
Bang bang you. Sexual slang in rock music
Love lyrics as interpreted by rock musicians also experienced their evolution: from sweet songs about mental tossing to frankly vulgar and defiant calls for immediate and dirty copulation. Or it can be called rather degradation - considering that it was precisely from the lustful black blues that rock and roll received its development and term.
Except huge amount allegories, such as: “Let me put my log in your fireplace”, “Let me cut your cake with my knife”, “Said you wanna get your order filled, made me shiver when I put it in” and the like “ masterpieces” of imaginative thinking, there were also quite definite concepts of this or that action, organ or object. Many of them were inherited from their predecessors.
So, for example, the expression “to get down” (“to give in”) was found even among more or less decent QUEEN
back in 1977 in the play “Get Down, Make Love.”
Common terms for sexual arousal that apply to both sexes include the adjectives hot and horny, and the verb to turn (somebody) on.
You boyz make big noise. Written slang in rock music (mis-spell)
Simultaneously with the widespread development of rock music, a phenomenon spread that took on the term “mis-spell” - deliberately incorrect spelling in the names of songs, records, and even the groups themselves. At times it felt like a play on words. Most famous example, of course, THE BEATLES: on the one hand it seems like “bugs”, but the word “beat” is also played on, which was often used at that time as the name of the music that was fashionable at that time.
In general, oddly enough, the fashion for distorting words first took root in Great Britain, the birthplace of literary English. A unsurpassed masters in this area have always been SLADE:
the name itself is already clean water mis-spell. We can say that misspelling has become their specialty throughout their career, and here are just a few variations of their song titles (in the original interpretation): “Look At Last Nite”, “Gudbuy T" Jane”, “Mama Weer All Crazee” Now", "Cum On Feel The Noize", "Look Wot You Dun", "Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me", "Coz I Luv You"...
The next surge of deliberately illiterately written words happened already in the 80s in America, where, strictly speaking, the process of simplifying them was always going on. graphic image. And musicians of styles such as glam and sleaze-rock especially distinguished themselves in this. It has become almost the norm to write nite instead of night or boyz instead of boys.
The widespread use of mis-spell is also reflected in the very names of the teams of this style - MOTLEY CRUE, RATT, TIGERTAILZ, ENUFF Z'NUFF, NOIZE TOYS, SLEEZE BEEZ, etc.
And already from the rockers, the baton was, in turn, picked up by black performers who were gaining fashion rap styles and hip-hop. It was assumed that street boys from African-American ghettos could not in fact be literate at all, and therefore simplifications in spelling were also striking in their minimalism. For example, the phrase “you are for me” could well look like “U R 4 M” on the record sleeve, and the preposition the was completely transformed into the letter D.
But this is a topic for another study.
PROFESSIONAL JARGON OF MUSICIANS.
Transfer from musical language to human and back:
♪ In C major - naked (ran out of the room in C major)
♪ Wave - conduct, direct music playing (who is waving today?)
♪ The instrument of profit is a musical instrument.
♪ "That's the conductor!" - let me leave the rehearsal early (at least an hour before the end.)
♪ He got involved - well, that's it, he whistled for something that, by and large, is not a freebie
♪ From under the hair - no notes (accompaniment)
♪ Flat - belly (look how flat he grew!)
♪ Bekar - failure, failure (with a salary a complete bekar...)
♪ Quietly - secretly, stealthily (I grabbed two sandwiches quietly)
♪ In two bows - a love triangle (corrected by censorship)
♪ Blow, whistle, peep, yell, pluck, knock - play various musical instruments.
♪ Potato - long note. (all potatoes vibrate!!!)
♪ Ches - very abundant fast music(two minutes of mad scratching)
♪ Ches, scratch (another meaning) - play many concerts in a row.
♪ Serve a client - play accompaniment to a soloist (Yes, I got a difficult client...)
♪ Half a brick - a difference of a quarter tone. (yes, he plays half a brick higher!!!)
♪ Two bricks (yes, he plays two bricks higher!!!) is the same as half a brick, but with a tinge of personal hostility.
♪ Puzoches - performer on plucked folk instruments.
♪ To bake - accordingly, to refuse
♪ Under the kochum - quietly.
♪ To wander - to remain silent, to rest, to pause.
♪ I played it under the piano - I didn’t play the piano very well.
♪ What about three? - what piece of music is being performed at the moment?
♪ A deceptive gesture is a conductor’s affront to a chord or introduction that does not exist at the moment.
♪ Past the cash register - past the notes.
♪ By neighbors - play by the right notes, falling into neighboring ones.
♪ Black caviar - a whole page of sixteenth notes
♪ String players - string players bowed instruments
♪ Clergy - wind musicians
♪ Demobilize - modulate, move to another key
♪ Shara (on the ball) - something that is given for free
♪ Berlo - food
♪ Take - eat
♪ Drive to Berlin - run to the dining room.
♪ Bashley - money
♪ Show off - pay money
♪ Bed sheet - sheet music pages, glued or laid out one after another due to continuous carding without the ability to turn over. Maximum length the sheets are theoretically limited solely by the width of the stage. To unfold a sheet, an average of three remote controls are required, combined with the composure and attentiveness of the performer when unfolding. A correctly laid out sheet provides a 27.5% success rate. At the same time, an incorrectly laid out sheet with a probability of up to 97% leads to inevitable failure at the concert.
♪ Lazha - main musical term, - an error in execution and, in general, any unpleasant situation.
♪ Hackwork is a part-time job that turns up, most often one-time.
♪ Sha-flat-callus is a very uncomfortable key with many signs and difficult positions. Another option is an indefinite key with a very out of tune performance.
♪ To crush is to sleep. Drushlag - bed.
♪ Double dominant - very big butt.
♪ Get excited - play. How exactly depends on the intonation. “You and I should get loose” - this is when musicians dream of playing something together to mutual pleasure. “We had fun on the ball yesterday, we had a blast” - they played somehow, without rehearsals.
♪ Labat zhmura - play at a funeral (usually brass players play zhmura).
♪ Going to blind man's houses - playing at funerals.
♪ Solo - drink alcohol. "They soloed all the way to Volsk..."
♪ Go to diminuendo - smoothly get out of the binge.
♪ Tremolo - shaking hands from a hangover.
♪ Toscanini - moving equipment or large instruments.
♪ Perform - refers to any action, for example: We performed a couple of beers.
♪ Sounded like an expression of satisfaction from something, for example from a couple of beers.
♪ Diez - prison. The hash mark in telephones and intercoms is also often referred to as a sharp.
♪ Ear - French horn.
♪ Top - accordion, button accordion.
♪ Trumpet players are brass players.
♪ Turnip - rehearsal.
♪ Snot is a slow and sad part of music.
♪ Goose bang - a fast part of music that suddenly comes after a slow one.
♪ Rubilovo, mochilovo, quality - an intense part of the music.
♪ Dr04it - diligently practice playing the instrument alone.
♪ Board is an electric guitar whose body is usually made of solid wood.
♪ Bank - acoustic guitar, its body is empty inside.
♪ Oar, shovel, ax – electric guitar.
♪ Substrate – a syncopated instrumental part that sounds as a counterpoint to the main rhythm.
♪ According to Prokofiev? - According to Tchaikovsky! – Should we have some coffee? - At this time of day I prefer tea!
♪ F**k-f**k, f*ck-fuck-fuck-fuck-I-fuck-fuck-fuck-fuck-fuck-fuck-fuck, F*ck! - mnemonic combinations of sounds that help the drummer remember his part.
♪ Pi©ka-pipi©ka is a mnemonic expression of the swing rhythm on the drums.
♪ Rims-kiy-Kor-sa-kov-sov-sem-su-ma-so-shel - a mnemonic combination of sounds that allows you to remember the 11/8 time signature, actively used by Rimsky-Korsakov.
♪ Lambs, rams - excessive uncontrolled vibration in the voices of some not very good vocalists.
♪ Spitting out the ligaments is an expression that is used by singers after performing a complex part with a large vocal load.
♪ Geography is a term for working with an opera director. It means from where and where to go on stage.
♪ Give a rooster - take it poorly high note.
♪ To scuff - to play uncertainly, confusedly.
♪ Metal in the voice - the brightness in the voice that singers strive for.
♪ The Walrus is a singer who is usually performed at the “food is served” party. A stable phrase is a walrus party.
♪ Pour - sing with full sound, fill the entire acoustic space of the hall, amaze with the volume of your voice.
♪ To produce is a very commendable term among vocalists; it means to sing with the necessary timbre content.
♪ Wardrobe - double bass.
♪ Shkvarka is a bad double bass.
♪ Pin - play in the transition, on the street. Accordingly, shtyrshchik is a street musician, shtyrka is a place for street music playing. Set expression- go to the pin.
♪ Fur coat on the stove - a flightless voice with a dim timbre.
♪ Beat on the piano - sing or play something too quietly when you can’t hear it from the audience.
♪ Right now I’ll explain to them in C major - an expression of extreme indignation.
♪ Vokalyuga is a singer who sings very loudly from the point of view of an instrumentalist.
♪ Gorlovik is a singer with a vocalization defect, a hard, “throat” timbre.
♪ Doshnik - the note “C” of the third octave, for tenors and sopranos it is approximately the same as a three-turn jump for figure skaters. Reshnik - respectively, a quadruple jump. The most famous example is the tenor aria from Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment with nine high Cs. For the coloratura soprano, the lightest voice, the same test is the fascinator, that is, “F” of the third octave. A classic example is the Queen of the Night’s aria from “ The Magic Flute» Mozart.
♪ Pipes - string instruments: violin, viola, cello. “How do you like my new Stradivarius pipe?” - an example of the refined humor of a string player.
♪ Perfume - wind blowers.
♪ Playing with schmaltz - playing strings with pronounced “Jewish” shades, with glissando, etc. Nowadays it is more a sign of bad taste.
♪ Like a dog's nose - extreme acting inexpressiveness.
♪ Mezzukha - mezzo-soprano.
♪ Police whistle is a common vocalization flaw in coloratura sopranos.
♪ Orevo - loud style of singing.
♪ Tovarit is a very commendable term among vocalists, excluding any condescending everyday connotation that may seem at first. It means to sing with the necessary timbre content.
♪ Quail - a state of voice fatigue after excessive stress.
♪ Rezhopera - director's opera (which is usually also called “modern”).
♪ Hands like feet is a working expression among pianists after a long break from practicing.
♪ Silovik is a singer who sings strainedly.
♪ Cartilage is a characteristic unpleasant sound among string players.
♪ Cha major - out of tune singing.