What does it mean when notes are beamed across both piano staves?
I have only six months in playing piano. I want to learn a new sheet, but I don”t understand this notation that merges the two staffs. Can you explain to me please?
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upper staff: r.h.
lower staff: l.h.
beams are cross over the staffs, rests are additional with the notes and complementary per staff, the reading of this notation is absolutely logical, like you were playing the Konga l.h/r.h.
Advice: try to notate a rhythm for a percussion instrument like l-r-l-r or r-l-r-l and any combination and permutation, and when one hand plays the other has a rest. You will get used to read this notation by writing yourself some exercices.
This particular notation is called cross-staff beaming. Perhaps nastily, it's often done without rests near each such beamed group, so consider yourself lucky that you get rests.
Playing-wise, whether the rests are there or not doesn't matter, so make sure you go RH-LH-RH in the circled group in Bar 2 and RH-rest-LH in the circled group in Bar 3.
It's nothing extraordinary - just a 'shorthand' way to write out the dots. Counting 6 in a bar, bar 2 goes r.h.(1), l.h. (2), r.h. (3), l.h. (456).
Bar 3 goes r.h. (1), rest (2), l.h (3), r.h. (4), rest (5), l.h. (6).
The bar underneath - bar 7? - is the opposite to bar 3, hand-wise.
It means exactly the same as the following (edited by me)
The original version is just a way of showing that you play in groups of three. I don't think it helps!
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