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Stick notation is a method for teaching music reading that involves presenting written notes with the note heads removed. The method is most often associated with the Kodaly method, but is used by non-Kodaly teachers as well.

: a woody piece or part of a tree or shrub: such as. a. : a usually dry or dead severed shoot, twig, or slender branch. b. : a cut or broken branch or piece of wood gathered for fuel or construction material.

A stick is a long thin piece of wood which is used for supporting someone's weight or for hitting people or animals.

criticize If you give someone some stick, you criticize them or tease them roughly.

claves, percussion instrument, a pair of cylindrical hardwood sticks about 8 inches (20 centimetres) long and one inch (2 1/2 centimetres) in diameter, one of which is held in the player's fingertips over the cupped hand (a resonator). When struck together they produce a sharp ringing sound.

the conductor The orthodoxy is that the conductor uses his or her right hand to hold a baton (if used – some prefer just to use their hands) and set the tempo, control it thereafter, signify the beginning of a new bar and deal with other matters of timing that help keep an ensemble of sometimes over a hundred individuals together.

A stick is either a short length of wood - part of a tree branch - or an implement made of wood, like a hockey stick, a walking stick, or the sticks you use to play a drum.

Thin elongated objects

• Twig.
• The weapon used in stick-fighting.
• Walking stick, a device to facilitate balancing while walking.
• Shepherd's crook.
• Swagger stick.
• Digging stick.
• Swizzle stick, used to stir drinks.

2. Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.

A stick is either a short length of wood - part of a tree branch - or an implement made of wood, like a hockey stick, a walking stick, or the sticks you use to play a drum.

The sticks is a humorous way of referring to a place in the country: My parents live out in the sticks. What is the pronunciation of sticks?

There is a great deal of overlap, but we are more likely to say we “stick to" a sustained effort and “stick with" an idea, an object or something else that calls for loyalty.