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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?
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This means that this is a triplet, and they are probably 3 eigth notes, not quarter notes. Regardless, you need to sing these three notes in the time it would take someone clapping out the rhythm to clap twice. There is an extra beat in the measure is all. Let me know if you need more help. <3
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Those are quarter note triplets. If it makes any sense, each quarter note takes up the time of two normal (eighth note triplets), and the whole "quarter note triplet" thing takes up the span of two beats.
For this song, though, you don't have to be exact in the rhythm, like, at all. That's a rather emotional part of the song. No one will be thinking about rhythm when they're deciding to say goodbye and let someone go, lol.
But yes, they are quarter note triplets, they take up the span of two beats.
You've heard this song before, correct? (If not, go listen to it and pay attention to the way the singer gets through those measures. Follow along in your piece.)
Really, though, just let the emotion guide you. The rhythm will come naturally if you let it.
Good luck!
-Siren =)
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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:
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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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its called a triplet (i have bn playin piano for nearly 8 yrs so i shud know) lol but basically it means that the notes are kinda squished into one beat of the bar, how many beats to a bar is there? if there is 4 then the triplets would be spread out into one whole beat.
soz if it didnt help much x x
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That would mean you would sing those quarter notes equal the length of a half note. so if you were to hear how long a halfnote sounds, you're supposed to sing those 3 quarternotes the same length as a half note. that might sound confusing, but i don't know any other way to say it.
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I'm pretty sure that means that the three notes are tied together and the three of them are worth one quarter note. So obviously they're a little faster. I could be wrong but I'm almost certain.
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