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I see... a middle c in there. Maybe.

Just looking at the sheet music is making my head explode.

Practice makes perfect, apparently.

I learnt piano for 9 years, and I'd say the first two lines look fairly easy, particularly the second. The others...well, I don't see how they're possible without at least 3 hands. If it were me, I'd probably use 4 hands. If that were possible.

 

did you get to this part yet

The last line has you playing six notes with your left hand, at what looks to be almost a 3 octave difference between the highest and lowest note. wat

 

also lack of time signature, but who needs that pft

I learnt piano for 9 years, and I'd say the first two lines look fairly easy, particularly the second. The others...well, I don't see how they're possible without at least 3 hands. If it were me, I'd probably use 4 hands. If that were possible.

The third line looks more complicated than it is. The right hand alternates between the c minor chord inversions on the top, while the left bounces between e-flat minor, a minor, and the bass octave. Fairly easy to play in comparison to what it looks like.

 

The fourth and fifth consist mainly of rolling huge chords with right and left hands all the way up the piano. Ives' own recording does this.

 

 

did you get to this part yet

 

 

maybe

 

 

The last line has you playing six notes with your left hand, at what looks to be almost a 3 octave difference between the highest and lowest note. wat

also lack of time signature, but who needs that pft

Ives actually uses a time signature in the middle section of this piece (from which I have not provided an except). Even in it, he mixes in 6/4 with 4/4 and ends on a 4-and-a-half/4 measure before eschewing the bar lines again.

It's times like this that I wish I hadn't quit piano, just so I could understand this in more detail.

Ives actually uses a time signature in the middle section of this piece (from which I have not provided an except). Even in it, he mixes in 6/4 with 4/4 and ends on a 4-and-a-half/4 measure before eschewing the bar lines again.

 

..4 1/2? I've heard of it but I thought it was just hypothetical. 'scuse me while I look this song up.

I play piano but I'm just a beginner.