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Q: I wonder whether any music folks out there can help me? I'm working on my audition piece "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from the Phantom of the Opera. On the sheet music, the phrase "too many..." (in the line "too many years fighting back tears why can't the past just die?" if you have the sheet music) the syllables are three quarter notes. Above the quarter notes is a bracket with "3" written on it. What does this mean?

A: The three means to sing them as a triplet.

This means to smooth them down.

I haven't seen the sheet music for this song before, but it's probably broken down like:

Too-man-y years figh-ting-back tears, why-cant-the past just die?

That means to say "Too-man-y" very smoothly together.

Ugh! I know exactly what you're talking about but it's proving rather hard to explain it.

According to this site:

http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abc_notation_part2.htm#ets

You sing the three notes in the time of two smoothly.

Oh, just listen to to song and you'll hear what I'm trying to tell you! =)

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(Rating: 5) I've heard the song hundreds of times. I just wasn't sure what that was is all. Thanks a million, hun!!!!!!!!!! :) ♥
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