Examples of 'half step' in a sentence

Meaning of "half step"

half step ~ A half step refers to the smallest interval between two notes in Western music, equivalent to one semitone. It is a fundamental concept in music theory and is commonly used to describe the distance between adjacent keys on a piano or the tuning of instruments
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  • An interval of which there are seven in a fifth or twelve in an octave, consisting of two tones whose frequency ratio is about 1.059 or 18/17.

How to use "half step" in a sentence

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Even as much as a half step can make a.
The half step interval will become enormous.
And he backed off just a half step.
Do not even take a half step in to this room.
He always tuned down one half step.
You are one half step from a world of hurt.
Each click transposes by one half step.
Do not tune it a half step high this time.
Every string is tuned down a half step.
She took a half step forward.
He did not have to pitch that extra half step.
That down a half step too.
He turned to his friends hanging back a half step.
Larry took a half step forward.
The guitar was tuned down a half step.

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An augmented fifth is a half step larger than a perfect fifth.
From key to key is a half step.
Those two get a half step near each other and.
Getting really tired of people being a half step behind us.
A half step back.
Whole step then half step.
See half step.
You can go up one half step.
By tuning down a half step it is easier to bend these heavy gauged strings.
Forward at the half step.
Take a half step to the left and aim for the third mark.
Applying toner is sort of a half step in this beauty routine.
Adam says she raised the key a half step.
The seventh note is a half step below the octave.
The two are off from one another by a half step.
Just a half step.
Each tetrachord consists of two whole steps followed by a half step.
It will connect scale tones by half step or one semitone.
The distance between each of these notes is called a half step.
Maybe if you took a half step back before the spin.
Quarter tones are pitches located halfway between each half step.
The major seventh is one half step below the octave.
And then he got worried and he backed off just a half step.
The minor seventh is one half step below the major seventh.
Each step from one key to the next is called a half step.
The half step is the shortest distance between two tones on the piano.
Very important half step.
A half step is the distance from one note to the next closest note.
Each step in this scale is called a half step or semitone.
We will take another half step back and think about this for a second.
If we are gonna do it a half step up.
This half step displacement is incredibly fertile terrain for creating beautiful melodic lines.
Take it up a half step.
This structure avoids half step intervals by eliminating the fourth and seventh scale degrees.
Ron gathered his courage and took a half step forwards.

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