Beatmatching ( or Beatmaxing ) is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or timestretching a track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track e. g. the kicks and snares in two house records hit at the same time when both records are played simultaneously.

Cornets and trumpets made in a given key ( usually the key of B ) play at the same pitch, and the technique for playing the instruments is nearly identical.

The change from gut to steel has also affected the instrument's playing technique over the last hundred years, because playing with steel strings allows the strings to be set up closer to the fingerboard, and, additionally, steel strings can be played in higher positions on the lower strings and still produce clear tone.

( Commonly called a rim shot and often used to trigger a similar effect, playing the rim of the trigger pad is a significantly different and far simpler technique, as it is not necessary or even desired to strike the body of the pad.

American and Soviet jumpers held the playing field for the next four decades, and they pioneered the evolution of the straddle technique.

There are differing schools of technique for playing the pedal harp.

Ann Heymann has revived the ancient tradition and technique by playing the instrument as well as studying Bunting's original manuscripts in the library of Queens University, Belfast.

' Vibrato ' is a technique commonly used while playing the harmonica and many other instruments, to give the note a ' shaking ' sound.

When this technique is employed whilst playing chords, care must be taken in overtone selection as the overtones stemming from the non-root pitch can cause extreme dissonance.

He was renowned as a big-hitting batsman, though with a classical technique of playing straight, and as a fast-medium paced swing bowler who could be very effective when atmospheric conditions favoured his style.

Some jazz guitarists also borrow ornamentation techniques from other jazz instruments, such as Wes Montgomery's borrowing of playing melodies in parallel octaves, which is a jazz piano technique.

Guitarist Al Di Meola, who started his career with Return to Forever in 1974, was one of the first guitarists to perform in a " shred " style, a technique later used in rock and heavy metal playing.

However, he also acknowledged that, while greatly improving his trumpet playing technique, Juilliard helped give him a grounding in music theory that would prove valuable in later years.

Musically, Test For Echo still retained much of the hard rock / alternative style already charted on the previous record with Lifeson and Lee's playing remaining more or less unchanged ; however, a distinct modification in technique became apparent in Peart's playing from his jazz and swing training under the tutelage of jazz instructor Freddie Gruber during the interim between Counterparts and Test For Echo.

Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar.

An advanced playing technique is known as the thumb roll.

Lithman's guitar playing technique earned him the nickname Snakefinger, after his frantic playing on the violin during the performance with the Residents at The Boarding House in San Francisco 1971, where his fingers ' speed made them look like snakes in the eyes of the less-musically proficient, but imaginative Residents.

The technique required for playing a viola has certain differences compared with that of a violin, partly because of its larger size: the notes are spread out farther along the fingerboard and often require different fingerings.

This facilitates a traditional playing technique where the performer uses one or two fingers of the bow hand to press the hair away from the bow stick.

After this, the French treatises by Machy ( 1685 ), Rousseau ( 1687 ), Danoville ( 1687 ), and Loulie ( 1700 ) show further developments in playing technique.

When rehearsing drill, positions and maneuvers are usually learned without playing the music simultaneously – a common technique for learning drill is to have members sing their parts or march to a recording produced during a music rehearsal.

This similarity is what led Jordan to attempt such a technique in the first place ; he was a classically trained pianist before playing guitar and wanted greater freedom in voicing chords on his guitar.

Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops ( often called " wickets " in the United States ) embedded in a grass playing court.

The match is played on a slightly smaller court and often involves only three field players playing on each side, in 3-on-3 floorball.

It involves techniques derived from other stringed instruments such as legato playing ' and various harmonics.

The most common type of home run involves hitting the ball over the outfield fence, or above a line on the outfield fence specifically designed to indicate a home run, in flight, in fair territory, without it being caught or deflected back by an outfielder into the playing field.

This involves three players, with one person playing a doubles team.

Miniature wargaming typically involves the use of 6 – 54 mm painted metal or plastic miniatures for units, and model scenery placed on a tabletop or floor as a playing surface, although other open areas such as gardens and sandboxes are sometimes used.

Another method involves free playing of your desired instrument.

Gauges are especially useful when performing music that involves fast tuning changes that do not allow the player to listen to the new pitch before playing it.

A basic strategy involves playing the legal card with the highest point value.

Thigpen was perhaps best known for playing Luna in the television show, Bear in the Big Blue House as well as " The Chief " of the ACME Detective Agency in the long-running PBS children's geography game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego ?, which involves both education and comedy, and, on occasion, musical performance.

Cribbage, or crib, is a card game traditionally for two players, but commonly played with three, four, or more, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points.

Bondage and discipline usually involves either physical or psychological restraint, formalized service and / or punishment, and sometimes sexual role playing, such as costumes.

* In the 2006 movie Jackass: Number Two, one of the skits involves playing dodgeball both in the dark and using medicine balls rather than traditional dodgeballs.

This involves playing out all hypothetical moves on the board up to a certain point, then using an evaluation function to estimate the value of that position for the current player.

Latin American-derived seasonal Christmas music called Parang traditionally involves singers moving throughout homes or districts playing staple instruments, such as the cuatro ( a four-stringed guitar ), the maracas ( indigenously known as chac-chacs ), and the guitar.

It typically involves a sound system playing electronic dance music from late at night until the time when the organisers decide to go home.

Season 5 episode 5 of Wind at My Back is titled The Spanish Prisoner and involves Grace Bailey being tricked into playing part in a Spanish Prisoner type scam.

A pairing strategy involves dividing all the squares of the board into pairs in such a way that by always playing on the pair of the first player's square, the second player is ensured that the first player cannot get k in a line.

This event involves playing a variety of sports in the mudflats of the Ariake Sea.

The next stage of this scheme involves the completion of the 530 eco-homes being built on the former sports centre site, and the centre's relocation to the nearby former college playing field site.

Another, relatively recently developed system involves quickly playing Be3, Qd2, and Rc1 or Rd1 to fortify White's centre, remove White's rook from the diagonal, and possibly enable an early d5 push by White.

Where the epic poem makes use of language alone, the playing of the lyre involves rhythm and melody.

In modern usage, a céilidh or ceilidh is a traditional Gaelic social gathering, which usually involves playing Gaelic folk music and dancing.

Defensive processing involves less hindsight bias as they are playing ignorant of the event.

It often involves improving the smoothness and accuracy of movements and is obviously necessary for complicated movements such as speaking, playing the piano and climbing trees ; but it is also important for calibrating simple movements like reflexes, as parameters of the body and environment change over time.