Real Face (note question)

how should i play the entire right hand? i'm not familiar with those double stems and small note (only a little knowledge of it) and the two seperate notes on the left hand

or you can give me a simplier version for this...
tnx a lot!

For left hand you hold down that note that looks like E (whole note) and play the rest with some other finger, like play E with thumb, keep it down for whole duration and play A with pinky...

Hi erianne ..i think my advice would be to learn a bit more about these notes on the theory side b4 u tackle them and it will be much easier for you to play there are lots of notation dictionaries ...which will explain these ..check out the forum for these there are a lot about ..but in my opinion it is better to learn about these first or pick simpler songs to begin with ...short cuts or simplifying are not the real answers ...btu this is only my opinion

endre wrote:For left hand you hold down that note that looks like E (whole note) and play the rest with some other finger, like play E with thumb, keep it down for whole duration and play A with pinky...

so E and A are seperate notes?
if i hold down E then A will play 4 times?
am i right?

yes youre right ^^ the E is a "whole" note whilst the a is a "quarter" one(btw. a technique I use if I dont know a meaning of something on the sheet=just try to fin f.e. on youtube a played version of the song)

thanks ^^ though there's no piano version of this song in the web, i use that technique also

by the way, how about this...


correct me if i'm wrong...
the blue circles are what i need to sustain
so what i need to play are D/D/D/B,G/sustain/E/sustain /E/E/E

how 'bout the red circle?
C#/A#/F/F/F/F

tell me if the notes are not correctly arrange

You need to play the first three d,f,b all at once, but hold the f & b for three and a half beats, then play the other d's then into the E chord at the end of the bar.

P.S.: When you play the E chord, you will hold the top notes f & b while playing the remaining E's and so on for the final bar .
I don't know how well i explained it but hope it helps

In music every notes that come above each other are to be played at the same time, in a chord. Separate stems don't change that rule, and just mean separate voices, as if two person were singing or playing, each of them reading only one voice. Like in a choir for example.

The small notes on the first sheet obviously are optional notes (i.e. another possible version of the piece.) so you might just ignore them.

Oh, and on your last example the "F" is an "F#"; I think you knew it but just wanted to be sure