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What does this 7 mean above the f flat
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowWhat does this weird notation mean (looks like “#.1”)?What does the 3 above the staff represent?What is the correct fingering for this sequence of notes?What does the arc under fingerings mean?What does this note - B# - mean?How to notate fingerings on chords/double stops?What does this notation mean? It is two numbers in bracketsIn classical guitar fingering notation, what does “-4” mean?Piano Fingering for JazzWhat do these numbers above a measure mean?
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It seems to look like a fingering number but I don’t have 7 fingers and the note is already marked with a fingering number.
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It seems to look like a fingering number but I don’t have 7 fingers and the note is already marked with a fingering number.
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Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
yesterday
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
yesterday
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Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
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BTW, you should always provide the name of the piece and the publisher of the edition you display. Makes it much easier for us to investigate.
– Carl Witthoft
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It seems to look like a fingering number but I don’t have 7 fingers and the note is already marked with a fingering number.
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It seems to look like a fingering number but I don’t have 7 fingers and the note is already marked with a fingering number.
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Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
yesterday
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
yesterday
3
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
8
BTW, you should always provide the name of the piece and the publisher of the edition you display. Makes it much easier for us to investigate.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
add a comment |
Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
yesterday
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
yesterday
3
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
8
BTW, you should always provide the name of the piece and the publisher of the edition you display. Makes it much easier for us to investigate.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
yesterday
Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
yesterday
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
yesterday
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
yesterday
3
3
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
8
8
BTW, you should always provide the name of the piece and the publisher of the edition you display. Makes it much easier for us to investigate.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
BTW, you should always provide the name of the piece and the publisher of the edition you display. Makes it much easier for us to investigate.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
add a comment |
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This is a tuplet, indicating that seven notes in the right hand are to be played in the same time as the regular six in the left. You have probably already encountered triplets, the most common tuplet, earlier in the same piece.
Here it is in another edition which makes its separation from the fingering clearer:
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@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
yesterday
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@replete Good answer. How can you not be fond of this piece? Just kidding, I know it's individual preference, but I just personally love this piece.
– Eff
yesterday
2
How hard is it to play? It sounds crazy to have the right hand play 16.666667% faster than the left hand, but I have no clue about piano.
– Eric Duminil
yesterday
3
Toads of the Short Forest, " Each musician follows a different time signature, as Frank Zappa explains to the audience. " I'm trying to find the exact text, but there were at least 5 different ones, and Zappa ends with "... and the saxophonist blowing his nose" . I would have just as much trouble trying to play 6 against 7 as in this Chopin piece. Found it! "At this very moment, on stage, we have drummer A playing in 7/8, drummer B playing in 3/4, the bass playing in 3/4, the organ playing in 5/8, the tambourine playing in 3/4, and the alto sax blowing his nose."
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
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@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
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This is a tuplet, indicating that seven notes in the right hand are to be played in the same time as the regular six in the left. You have probably already encountered triplets, the most common tuplet, earlier in the same piece.
Here it is in another edition which makes its separation from the fingering clearer:
answered yesterday
repletereplete
3,787928
1
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
yesterday
2
@replete Good answer. How can you not be fond of this piece? Just kidding, I know it's individual preference, but I just personally love this piece.
– Eff
yesterday
2
How hard is it to play? It sounds crazy to have the right hand play 16.666667% faster than the left hand, but I have no clue about piano.
– Eric Duminil
yesterday
3
Toads of the Short Forest, " Each musician follows a different time signature, as Frank Zappa explains to the audience. " I'm trying to find the exact text, but there were at least 5 different ones, and Zappa ends with "... and the saxophonist blowing his nose" . I would have just as much trouble trying to play 6 against 7 as in this Chopin piece. Found it! "At this very moment, on stage, we have drummer A playing in 7/8, drummer B playing in 3/4, the bass playing in 3/4, the organ playing in 5/8, the tambourine playing in 3/4, and the alto sax blowing his nose."
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
yesterday
|
show 4 more comments
24
This is a tuplet, indicating that seven notes in the right hand are to be played in the same time as the regular six in the left. You have probably already encountered triplets, the most common tuplet, earlier in the same piece.
Here it is in another edition which makes its separation from the fingering clearer:
answered yesterday
repletereplete
3,787928
1
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
yesterday
2
@replete Good answer. How can you not be fond of this piece? Just kidding, I know it's individual preference, but I just personally love this piece.
– Eff
yesterday
2
How hard is it to play? It sounds crazy to have the right hand play 16.666667% faster than the left hand, but I have no clue about piano.
– Eric Duminil
yesterday
3
Toads of the Short Forest, " Each musician follows a different time signature, as Frank Zappa explains to the audience. " I'm trying to find the exact text, but there were at least 5 different ones, and Zappa ends with "... and the saxophonist blowing his nose" . I would have just as much trouble trying to play 6 against 7 as in this Chopin piece. Found it! "At this very moment, on stage, we have drummer A playing in 7/8, drummer B playing in 3/4, the bass playing in 3/4, the organ playing in 5/8, the tambourine playing in 3/4, and the alto sax blowing his nose."
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
yesterday
|
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This is a tuplet, indicating that seven notes in the right hand are to be played in the same time as the regular six in the left. You have probably already encountered triplets, the most common tuplet, earlier in the same piece.
Here it is in another edition which makes its separation from the fingering clearer:
answered yesterday
repletereplete
3,787928
This is a tuplet, indicating that seven notes in the right hand are to be played in the same time as the regular six in the left. You have probably already encountered triplets, the most common tuplet, earlier in the same piece.
Here it is in another edition which makes its separation from the fingering clearer:
answered yesterday
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3,787928
edited yesterday
answered yesterday
repletereplete
3,787928
answered yesterday
repletereplete
3,787928
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repletereplete
3,787928
3,787928
1
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
yesterday
2
@replete Good answer. How can you not be fond of this piece? Just kidding, I know it's individual preference, but I just personally love this piece.
– Eff
yesterday
2
How hard is it to play? It sounds crazy to have the right hand play 16.666667% faster than the left hand, but I have no clue about piano.
– Eric Duminil
yesterday
3
Toads of the Short Forest, " Each musician follows a different time signature, as Frank Zappa explains to the audience. " I'm trying to find the exact text, but there were at least 5 different ones, and Zappa ends with "... and the saxophonist blowing his nose" . I would have just as much trouble trying to play 6 against 7 as in this Chopin piece. Found it! "At this very moment, on stage, we have drummer A playing in 7/8, drummer B playing in 3/4, the bass playing in 3/4, the organ playing in 5/8, the tambourine playing in 3/4, and the alto sax blowing his nose."
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
yesterday
|
show 4 more comments
1
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
yesterday
2
@replete Good answer. How can you not be fond of this piece? Just kidding, I know it's individual preference, but I just personally love this piece.
– Eff
yesterday
2
How hard is it to play? It sounds crazy to have the right hand play 16.666667% faster than the left hand, but I have no clue about piano.
– Eric Duminil
yesterday
3
Toads of the Short Forest, " Each musician follows a different time signature, as Frank Zappa explains to the audience. " I'm trying to find the exact text, but there were at least 5 different ones, and Zappa ends with "... and the saxophonist blowing his nose" . I would have just as much trouble trying to play 6 against 7 as in this Chopin piece. Found it! "At this very moment, on stage, we have drummer A playing in 7/8, drummer B playing in 3/4, the bass playing in 3/4, the organ playing in 5/8, the tambourine playing in 3/4, and the alto sax blowing his nose."
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
yesterday
1
1
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
yesterday
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
yesterday
2
2
@replete Good answer. How can you not be fond of this piece? Just kidding, I know it's individual preference, but I just personally love this piece.
– Eff
yesterday
@replete Good answer. How can you not be fond of this piece? Just kidding, I know it's individual preference, but I just personally love this piece.
– Eff
yesterday
2
2
How hard is it to play? It sounds crazy to have the right hand play 16.666667% faster than the left hand, but I have no clue about piano.
– Eric Duminil
yesterday
How hard is it to play? It sounds crazy to have the right hand play 16.666667% faster than the left hand, but I have no clue about piano.
– Eric Duminil
yesterday
3
3
Toads of the Short Forest, " Each musician follows a different time signature, as Frank Zappa explains to the audience. " I'm trying to find the exact text, but there were at least 5 different ones, and Zappa ends with "... and the saxophonist blowing his nose" . I would have just as much trouble trying to play 6 against 7 as in this Chopin piece. Found it! "At this very moment, on stage, we have drummer A playing in 7/8, drummer B playing in 3/4, the bass playing in 3/4, the organ playing in 5/8, the tambourine playing in 3/4, and the alto sax blowing his nose."
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
Toads of the Short Forest, " Each musician follows a different time signature, as Frank Zappa explains to the audience. " I'm trying to find the exact text, but there were at least 5 different ones, and Zappa ends with "... and the saxophonist blowing his nose" . I would have just as much trouble trying to play 6 against 7 as in this Chopin piece. Found it! "At this very moment, on stage, we have drummer A playing in 7/8, drummer B playing in 3/4, the bass playing in 3/4, the organ playing in 5/8, the tambourine playing in 3/4, and the alto sax blowing his nose."
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
1
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
yesterday
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
yesterday
|
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Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
yesterday
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
yesterday
3
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday
8
BTW, you should always provide the name of the piece and the publisher of the edition you display. Makes it much easier for us to investigate.
– Carl Witthoft
yesterday