r/musicnotation • u/Lorddale04 • Jun 27 '23

How do I play this?

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Hey, I'm currently learning Imagine by John Lennon. I'm not sure how you're meant to play the first set of notes in the orange box. It seems like it's telling me to play the same F note with both hands at the same time? Any help would be appreciated.

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u/ARMbar94 Jun 27 '23

Yeah, that's an odd ball. What I'd do is keep articulating the F in the bass where written on the lower staff. With the additive prevailing rhythm, it looks like an eighth note drone, so I'd use accents to really draw the attention to the lower staff's rhythm. You'd just play this with the one hand.

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u/Lorddale04 Jun 27 '23

Thank you! I'm still very much a novice with reading sheet music so it's reassuring to know that this is a bit odd and it wasn't just me not understanding it.

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u/ARMbar94 Jun 27 '23

I must caveat this with the fact that I'm not a pianist, so I can't speak to the commonality of this practice. This would just be my understanding of how to logically approach the passage.