Piano Duo. Playable?
https://musescore.com/danielnahoaani/piano-duo-no-1-finaldna. Ok, so after much reshaping from help from the Musescore community, here is my latest update to my piano duo. Please tell me if it is playable? Please help me create a perfect piece of sheet music for the community of concert musicians. Thank you so much. Shout out to Marc Sabatella and Jojo-Schmitz for helping this come together with their input. Thanks guys and gals. And any pianist or violinist who have input, please feel free to openly share.
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Friendly observation: The Db in a triplette into the low A is so you have just a very slight differentiation from the notes rather than a chord, right? Why not make the Db a crushed note in notation? There's also the option of making this a downward arpeggio for the separation.
![DNA1.png]( "DNA1.png")
![DNA2.png]( "DNA2.png")
E.G.
Crushed: Arpeggiated
Good luck.
In reply to Friendly observation: The Db by worldwideweary
yes, used for slight differentiation and dissonance.
Thanks for responding. The Db top note is so crucial to the color, I just want to hit the note really quickly to "flavor" the rest of the piano phrase and then go back down and finish up the measure. The top note is for color and dissonance. Could you please explain crushed note and the other example? Is the triplet to fast to be played as is? Should I increase it to a 16th note? I think you know what I want to do here. Thank you.
In reply to Thanks for responding. The Db by Daniel Ani
Yes, a crushed noted is more properly termed an acciaccatura, and it is precisely for what you're aiming regarding quick execution. The definition is: "a grace note performed as quickly as possible before an essential note of a melody, and falling before the beat." The only difference here would be that the top note would be played just right before the beat, so before the G natural also (I said A earlier accidentally) in the Bass clef, but only very, very slightly, so it would be the first note super-quick, then the bass note and the Gnatural together. If you don't want that and you want the top note to be played perfectly in time with the bass note, a downward arpeggio would work. An arpeggio is an opened chord either down or upward: if that doesn't make sense look up a dictionary definition. Try it to see if you like it: choose the down-arrow version. If it's too slow for you, you can always edit the OnTime value of the second note, the Gnatural, by minimizing it in the Piano-roll editor: right click the measure, click Piano-roll editor, then select the note and change OnTime to a very small number. Of course there's a problem with the arpeggio because it's only one voice, so the top note will be of the same duration as the bottom note. You can always use two voices to change that. It looks like you're using "pedal" anyways so it wouldn't necessarily matter. If you wanted to use two voices to be very precise, here are some captures:
![2voiceArp2.png]( "2voiceArp2.png")
![Selection_005.png]( "Selection_005.png")
This is utilizing invisible rests on the top voice and still maintaining the 32nd top note.
Either way, use the piano roll editor for precision if you do any of this stuff:
Here using 33 instead of 0 for OnTime pushes the lower note in the treble clef forward just slightly, or with an arpeggio you might need to make the number smaller than what it is already. Either way, hope this gives you some ideas.
The reason why I bring it up is that these options look a lot cleaner than with the triplette mixed with ties.
P.S. Pianists can usually only reach a span of an octave + 1 or 2 tones at most, anything further than that requires arm motions and or 'magic' ;)
In reply to Yes, a crushed noted is more by worldwideweary
Thank you so much for you response worldwideweary, I spent the last few hours trying out what you suggested and decided on the crushed notes. I updated my piece all the way through and was hoping if you could look it at for any corrections or suggestions.
In reply to Thank you so much for you by Daniel Ani
That's it for now, except looking quickly through you might want to consider having the ties on the low notes of the bass clef be curved downward rather than upward, but in a sense this is just a simple preference.
In reply to That's it for now, except by worldwideweary
Ok, thank you worldwideweary for your time and help with this composition.
In reply to Yes, a crushed noted is more by worldwideweary
You mentioned pedal, that has been on my mind. Will that give me the effect I'm looking for? Specifically from bars 1-16 and 43 to the end of the piece. Surely you understand me for mentioning that, as that was the sound I was going for in the introduction.