Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Help me with this sheet music for piano PLEASEE 8va notation and notes length?

okay so if you look at the two images bellow A and B I have some questions on the part that is circled. Okay if you look at A which is the don't stop believing notes that have that ';tie'; line like when you hit at the beginning of the song an E in the bass cleff what I want to know is how to play that? Do they mean HOLD E down until you see E again or are you supposed to keep holding E until the E line ends and hit E again? In other words there are two E notes on both ends of that tie does that mean hit them twice or hold it for that long? My second question for sheet B or the other one is I circled the part that says 8va which means an octave higher; I know what that means and how to play it the only thing I don't understand is if they want you to play both cleffs an octave higher or not? Do they just want you to play those in the G cleff an octave higher or the G and F cleff both?








A)


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B)


http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k96/derdoydum/bibo.jpgHelp me with this sheet music for piano PLEASEE 8va notation and notes length?
A) Tied notes are held for the duration of the notes together.





B) The ottava (8va) applies only to the staff that it is written on. (if the composer would have wanted the F and C in the first half of measure 12 up an octave, he would have written it within the staff. The reason for ottava is to reduce the number of ledger lines you have to read)Help me with this sheet music for piano PLEASEE 8va notation and notes length?
On A, you hold the E until you play the D then release, and you hold the G at the bottom for two and a half beats.





On B, the treble clef is the only clef raised an octave.
A) When you see notes tied together that have the same pitch (distinct from a ';slur';, when notes of different pitches are tied together) you continue to play (hold) the pitch for the sum of the note values that are tied together. In the example you give, you would continue to hold the E down for two beats PLUS another half beat; if there was another E right after the tied notes, you would make sure you can tell it is a separate note (don't hold between it) as long as the tie doesn't continue past the previous note. Ties are simply a convenient way of extending the length of a single note, even if it is for odd lengths or has a bar line in the middle.


*As a side note, in playing music, you should always ';hold'; a note for the given value, and only put a break when you begin the next note - you don't press the key once, let go, then wait for the next note, unless there is a rest in between.





B) No, only play the treble clef 8va up; if the composer wanted you to play the bass clef, another 8va would be added between the staves.

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