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For questions about music written for piano, playing the piano, maintenance of a piano, or other general questions about pianos.
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Is it true that the thumb should be always on top of the piano keyboard when playing?
As a piano teacher I would want beginning students to keep all their 10 fingers above the keyboard, and I would correct them if they were to play so close to the ends of the keys that the thumb was too …
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Piano Sheet Music: Two Voices - Same Note
Additionally, on a piano the sound quality changes as the note is played with more force - a louder note is not just louder, but it sounds different. …
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Eighth-note missing from score?
It appears that the typesetter took the upper section of the bass clef as a single part, and this part has a crotchet rest for the first beat of bar 42. The low B in the right hand is regarded as part …
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Do brackets between staves indicating which hand to use apply to the entire measure?
Suggestions regarding which fingers or which hand to use are just that - suggestions. A pianist should use whichever helps produce the desired sound. Try the various possibilities and see which works …
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How would these grace notes fit?
I would usually play this with the 3 small notes as triplet semiquavers before the first quaver. But for some composers the 3 small notes should be played inside the first quaver, so those 4 notes are …
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What is this chord in Schubert's D. 531?
In older theory it is an 11th. The notes written are the first (A), fifth (E), 7th(G) and 11th (D).
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Piano pedaling notation
In the middle of the first full bar I would release the pedal as I start to play the notes of the 4th crotchet beat and re-apply it immediately. Even when there is no previous pedalling I would begin …