Notation question
Hi, I attach a few bars of music and the notation indicates a dotted crotchet d next to a mini d in the lower staff in the second bar. As the piece is in two four-time this has confused me. I have never come across this before Can anyone enlighten me, please?
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Comments
Note the stem directions. The dotted B belongs to the G just before the next measure.
Also see:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/voices
A number of things you might be confused about here:
First, note the clef on the bottom staff is treble, not bass. The notes in the second measure are therefore B, not D.
You say you've never encountered this before, but actually, it's really no different than what's in the other measures. Look at the first measure (also bottom staff). There are two independent "voices" here - one has four quavered, the other a single minim, and there two things happen at the same time. Piano music is full of this type of thing, probably more measures have it then not. The second measure is more of the same, but in this case it just so happens the two independent voices are on the same note - that's not as common, but not really unusual either. But it's important to notate them separately so you can understand what each independent voice is doing and bring out the various lines in your playing.