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In the first image, how do you play quarter note triplets against 8th notes in the left hand? Well, it is all about mathematics. Since that triplet is to occupy a single beat at the end of the measure ..... You find where the last beat of the measure begins in the bass part .... which is the next to last eighth note .... and you start the triplet with your right hand when you are playing the next to last eighth note in the left hand. Good Luck
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In the second image, the fourth note is a c in left hand, which appears to be played together with CFGA in the right hand, how can this be that the same C note is being played twice at the same time? Do you happen to notice that there is a set of parenthesis .... () .... surrounding the "C" notes played with the right hand. That is acknowledging that the left hand is also scheduled to play this note at the same time as the right hand is playing it. It is up to you to decide which hand to play that note (those notes) with .... or both may even play them .... gets crowded, but do as you think best. Good Luck
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In the second image, the fourth note is a c in left hand, which appears to be played together with CFGA in the right hand, how can this be that the same C note is being played twice at the same time? Do you happen to notice that there is a set of parenthesis .... () .... surrounding the "C" notes played with the right hand. That is acknowledging that the left hand is also scheduled to play this note at the same time as the right hand is playing it. It is up to you to decide which hand to play that note (those notes) with .... or both may even play them .... gets crowded, but do as you think best. Good Luck Don - I agree. What the composer/arranger is doing is showing both voices. Listening to the snip mentally, it also came to me that this piece is as likely to be played on "keyboard(s)" as an acoustic piano. Were I doing it on a single keyboard, I could set up the bass to be one instrument, the treble another. In that case, it would make a difference which hand played the C. And then there's the possibility of playing on 2 stacked keyboards, LH on one, RH on the other. In THAT case, I'd opt to play the C in both hands.
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You play and hold the key down for the specified duration (whilst playing the other notes above it). Those notes that you hold down are 'pedal notes'.
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You play and hold the key down for the specified duration (whilst playing the other notes above it). But that f is listed twice , once as a 8th note and once as a whole note , do I play it twice , but hold it the second time for the whole measure ?
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You just play it once. The eighth note notation is to make sure you know when to sound the next note.
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You play and hold the key down for the specified duration (whilst playing the other notes above it). But that f is listed twice , once as a 8th note and once as a whole note , do I play it twice , but hold it the second time for the whole measure ? No, you play it once. The way it is notated is to show that it's part of the bass (connecting to the next note C) as well as being a pedal note. If it isn't, there would be an eighth note rest above it, and the F would just be notated as a single (dotted) note.
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You just play it once. The eighth note notation is to make sure you know when to sound the next note. So you play it once but hold it for whole note ?
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You just play it once. The eighth note notation is to make sure you know when to sound the next note. So you play it once but hold it for whole note ? Yes - think of the LH part as being noted in two voices.
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[quote-bennevis] . . . Yes - think of the LH part as being noted in two voices. [/quote]
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Yes, hold it for the whole note. As Charles Cohen stated above, it's a notation for counterpoint. The use of multiple notes means that it is meant to be understood as two voices. The eighth note means it is connected to the other notes of the left hand in the measure, and the whole note that you hold the note for the length of the measure and also consider it as a lower voice. This kind of notation is fairly common in contrapuntal music.
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You just play it once. The eighth note notation is to make sure you know when to sound the next note. So you play it once but hold it for whole note ? Yes - think of the LH part as being noted in two voices. I notice other sections as such but the confusing part is I could not hold the whole note for the whole measure and play the other notes Bc they are too far apart , Is it a must I hold the whole note the whole measure?
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You just play it once. The eighth note notation is to make sure you know when to sound the next note. So you play it once but hold it for whole note ? Yes - think of the LH part as being noted in two voices. I notice other sections as such but the confusing part is I could not hold the whole note for the whole measure and play the other notes Bc they are too far apart , Is it a must I hold the whole note the whole measure? Sometimes if you can’t reach use the sustain pedal and let go
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I notice other sections as such but the confusing part is I could not hold the whole note for the whole measure and play the other notes Bc they are too far apart ,
Is it a must I hold the whole note the whole measure? Yes, and you need to learn this. F and C are only a fifth apart, so you hold F with your little finger, and play C with your thumb. The same goes for the next measure and the measure after that.
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I notice other sections as such but the confusing part is I could not hold the whole note for the whole measure and play the other notes Bc they are too far apart ,
Is it a must I hold the whole note the whole measure? Yes, and you need to learn this. F and C are only a fifth apart, so you hold F with your little finger, and play C with your thumb. The same goes for the next measure and the measure after that. but in other measures it is like 13 notes apart or more, its impossible to hold note for the whole measure in such cases. I think you are incorrect.
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I don't know if this answers the question above, but Alexis Ffrench's Dreamland, on the very first measure, has an E that stretches along four measures. In the tutorial he plays that E and moves away to play the notes on the treble clef. So, that E is sustained by the pedal being pressed along the four measures. And that is how I am playing it. Now, I assume Alexis knows much better than me. But I consider my music reading skills intermediate at best. Silly comment follows (disclaimer - I read music well enough
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I don't know if this answers the question above, but Alexis Ffrench's Dreamland, on the very first measure, has an E that stretches along four measures. In the tutorial he plays that E and moves away to play the notes on the treble clef. So, that E is sustained by the pedal being pressed along the four measures. And that is how I am playing it. Now, I assume Alexis knows much better than me. But I consider my music reading skills intermediate at best. Silly comment follows (disclaimer - I read music well enough How did u get the image to post? I don’t know how to do that I always have to link it to google drive or post it on pianoworld and then link it
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