Questions tagged [piano]
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What does this grace note/trill notation mean?
What does this notation in Haydn's Menuet and Trio mean? In the first photo, does the notation above the grace note indicate how to play the grace note: Holding the C for 1 and 1/4 beats and then B A ...
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Left hand trills toward the end of Bach's BWV 825 Sarabande
I listened to some youtube videos of this piece, and saw Bach's ornament guide. The videos don't sound like what Bach was supposed to mean in the guide, so just to see if I get it right:
Trill "1&...
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How to correctly complement piano notes with chords and slurs indicated in guitar tabs?
Using simple guitar tab to piano charts, I have converted the following guitar tabs:
into simplified piano (letter) notation:
A1-E2-A2-E2 - A1-F2-A2-F2 - A1-A2-C3-A2 - B2-G2-B2-D3
A1-E2-A2-E2 - A1-...
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Determining the note value of a triplet with unequal note values in it
I was surfing through 8notes, specifically this to search for the meaning of a trill with a flat sign.
However, reading that trills were supposed to end with a "turn" made me slightly ...
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Need clarification for measure 15 of BWV 825 Sarabande
The part in the rectangle, that augmentation dot is for the second voice, right? Could someone please dissect that part to make it clearer for me? Since the two voices share the F and Bb notes, the ...
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What does this "psf" mean (p with a backslash) in m. 5 of Bach Partita 1 Sarabande BWV 825
What does the part pointed by red arrow mean?
Also, how should one pedal this piece?
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Sheet music error? Or do I misunderstand? [duplicate]
I was hoping someone might be able to help me. I am new to reading sheet music. To my understanding, I should be reading the first bar in the treble clef as:
dotted half note (1 and 2 and 3 and)
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Why would an editor of a scale book prescribe a different (thus inconsistent) fingering for the starting / ending notes of a scale?
I know it's more stable for the RH to start the B-flat (of the Gb major scale separated by a 3rd below) with a 3 rather than a 4, but I find it easier to be consistent because on subsequent B-flat we ...
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Should we *count* the circled tremolo in order to respect exactly the number of repetitions?
In such a score (March of Steel), should we count the blue part in order to respect exactly the number of repetitions? If so, how can we count at such a high speed?
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Should the circled notes be played again?
In this score (Mozart, Confutatis Maledictis), should the blue notes be played again with respect to the small notes before?
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How do I spread my hand that wide?
This song is Home (from the game Undertale). I recently started learning piano and decided this would be a good place to start.
In the second bar of the photo, that looks impossible to reach, and it ...
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Writing "Easy Piano" arrangements
I would like to write "easy piano" arrangements for songs that I have written. I particularly admire the easy piano arrangements of John Brimhall. He seems to be able to capture the essence ...
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How to play the chords passages to make it melodious (Chopin Op. 15 No. 3 from m. 89)
This is Chopin's Nocturne in G minor, Op. 15, No 3.
When I listen to recordings of this part, it sounds very beautifully melodious, but when I tried to play it, it's very unmusical, just a bunch of ...
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Should the upper part be played by the right hand only or by the 2 hands?
In this score from Bach, prelude A minor BWV 543 :
Should the upper part be played by the right hand only or by the 2 hands?
What is the 'recommendation'
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This song is in 4/4, and in one measure of this song, it also has a chord worth a while, but then it has three beams!
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This song is 4/4.In some measures, the time value of a measure is greater than 4/4.
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