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Anonymous Sat 13 Apr 2024 14:05:46 No.1455664 View View Reply Original Report

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I am trying to learn the piano and I've come across something that I require help with. I'm only vaguely familiar with the idea of chords and I've only seen a three-note b-minor chord before. Now, as far as I'm aware all the F notes are sharps in this so the four note B minor chord should be D, B,F sharp and D. Am I right? If so, am I supposed to be able to hit all four notes with one hand? It seems like it'd be difficult but I guess that's what the point of practice is.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Apr 2024 16:14:20 No.1455676 Report

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This isn't technically just piano sheet music, its piano/choral sheet music.
Often times (and especially with choral music) there are different "voices" in each staff of music (the horizontal blocks). In pure choral music, this will be a soprano voice and alto voice in the treble staff, with a tenor voice and bass voice in the bass staff.
In your case, there is a unison (soprano) voice in the treble staff in addition to the piano's voice. You don't actually play the unison voice because that is what is sung.
You can tell the difference between what is for the piano and what is for the unison voice by the direction of the stem. The higher voice typically has stems going up, and the lower voice typically has stems going down. In your case, the unison voice has stems going up and the piano has stems going down in the treble staff. This won't be universally the case, especially with solo piano music.
I have marked up your image to demonstrate. The green is the treble clef, which marks the treble staff. The yellow is the unison/soprano voice, and also the melody. The pink is the piano voice treble, which should be played by your right hand. The red is the bass clef, which marks the bass staff. The crimson is the piano voice bass, which should be played by your left hand.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Apr 2024 22:00:38 No.1455922 Report

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I'm no authority on sheet music, but yes, the basic idea is that all F's are F#'s actually. Yes, you are supposed to hit all the notes at the same time, but don't worry about that if you're just a beginner, just learn to play a monophonic melody first, that's difficult enough when you start out.

The chords are additional information to what you can see in the two lines. The composition of the chords remain the same regardless of the key. To get the notes of a chord, you take the root note, like B, and count 3+4 half steps to get the other 2 notes for minor and 4+3 for major. So it will be B, D, F# for Bm and B, D#, F# for B (major). You can do this with all notes. Look this up on youtube, it will help you a lot.
When you have the chords, if you completely disregard the left hand sheet music and just play these chords with your left hand, it will sound fine. In fact, you can just play octaves, disregarding the major/minor part. Or you can play power chords (meaning the root note + 7 half steps (+ an octave optionally)).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 02:49:26 No.1455956 Report

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Musician here. Notice the word "Unison" at the start of the score. That means the sheet music shows more than one musical part at the same time. So in this case, the quarter and eighth notes (filled in black) on the treble clef (the top staff) are one part, and the half notes (filled in white) are the other part.

You are not necessarily expected to play all of them yourself at the same time. Of course you can if you want to. You've noticed that it's hard to play the B minor because of the octave stretch from D to D. Most musicians would omit the lower D because it doesn't add anything to the harmony. B minor is still B minor whether it's with one D or ten.

However, if you/someone were playing the half note part separately, you would probably omit the B, for two reasons. B minor is still B minor with one B or ten (sound familiar?). The other reason is the shape of the overall melody for this part. You'll notice playing D and F# follow the shape much better than playing F# and B.

One last thing I want to point out, and hopefully you've thought this already: sheet music is not a precise science. You've probably been taught that music has to always be played exactly how it's written, but it's really just more of a guide. Allow yourself to explore changing things and experiment with new ideas. They won't all work, but you'll definitely find some things that do, and with enough curiosity you can look up why those things work and what you've discovered for yourself.

Have fun, anon :)

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