What does this 7 mean above the f flat
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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
2 days ago
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
2 days ago
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Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
2 days ago
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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
2 days ago
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
2 days ago
3
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
add a comment |
Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
2 days ago
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
2 days ago
3
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
2 days ago
Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
2 days ago
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
2 days ago
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
2 days ago
3
3
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
2 days ago
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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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 2 days ago
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@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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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 2 days ago
repletereplete
3,787928
1
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
2 days ago
|
show 4 more comments
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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 2 days ago
repletereplete
3,787928
1
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
2 days ago
|
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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 2 days ago
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 2 days ago
repletereplete
3,787928
edited 2 days ago
answered 2 days ago
repletereplete
3,787928
answered 2 days ago
repletereplete
3,787928
answered 2 days ago
repletereplete
3,787928
3,787928
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@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
2 days ago
|
show 4 more comments
1
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
2 days ago
1
1
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
2 days ago
@user45266 I'm not very fond of this piece but it gets played so relentlessly often!
– replete
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
@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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
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
2 days ago
1
1
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
2 days ago
@CarlWitthoft - I've depped in bands like that. Except that the numbers were often supposed to be in 4/4...
– Tim
2 days ago
|
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Is this from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu?
– Dekkadeci
2 days ago
@Dekkadeci yes.
– replete
2 days ago
3
Count the notes! :-) It's a septuplet.
– Carl Witthoft
2 days ago
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
2 days ago