Meaning of this music notation ?

read the manual, about voices ;-)

The extra notes follow the lyrics for the two verses. Yes, voices will handle this notation nicely.

Just to expand on the above a littw:

Normally, "Voices" are used in music notation to indicate two different rhyhtms to be played at the same time. So most of the tme you see different groups of notes at the same time rpwith different rhythms, with one set stems up and the other stems down, that's what it means - that you are supposed to play both rhythms at once.

But in this example, nobody expects you to play (or sing!) both rhythms at once. They are just using the same notational device to show different rhythms for first and second verse. That's pretty common in pop sheet music.

So, in Measure 14, one note doesn't have two stems here. The upward-pointing stem is on a crotchet (quarter-note) and the downward-pointing stem is on the first of two quavers (eighth notes). You'd put the crotchet in Voice 1 and the two eighth notes in Voice 2.

In Measure 10 the rests for both Voices will overlap but sometimes you will find that you need to hide one rest or move one or both to make the music look neater. You will see this in Measure 14 where you would first enter a dotted minim and then a crotchet. Then you would use Voice 2 and enter a dotted minim rest followed by two quavers. Then you would select the rest and either delete it or right-click on it and make it invisible.

Hi wouterw -

The other thing that I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that some of the notes in measures 10 and 14 are smaller than the others.

To do this, right click on the note, then select Note Properties... At the top left of the dialog box, click on Small, then the OK button. Repeat this for each of the notes you want to be smaller than the rest.

Fifist