Space Dementia

[burntgorilla]

In the intro of this song, the left and right hand play arpeggios. That's alright, but the left hand plays three notes, while the right plays four. There's not much indication on the notation, so are they played in time, with an extra on the right, or in the same time period? They're played a bit too fast on the song for me to hear.

[CuShMaN]

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[burntgorilla]

I got it off that french site, here's it here:

http://img14.imgspot.com/?u=05/82/13/space01.jpg

[CuShMaN]

Ah,

Ok.. not exactly an arpeggio. The squiggly lines indicate that it should sound like a "roll". Like if you were Really-slowly strumming the notes on a guitar.. but do that with the chord on the piano.

Bear with me.. I know you probably already know this.. but..

The piece is Rubato with the quarternote = 62.. 4/4 time sig.. so each measure should take roughly 4 seconds to play. So check your watch, get your tempo, and begin.

Right off the bat, we see four voices represented. The middle two voices will rest for the first two beats.
In the first measure, on the first beat, you play the high note and low note almost simultaneously, however, i would slighly, almost imperceptably, stagger them upward(they should sustain for the remainder of the measure using the damper pedal), nothing is played on the second beat,
and to answer your question..
on the third beat, both chord sets should be played at the same time and end at the same time. A fully arpegiatted directional roll would have an Arrow on the top or bottom of the squiggly line that would indicate where to stop and end..
In this case.. both chord sets need to blend together like shuffling a deck of cards. Three against four. Slightly mensurate (tempo adjust) the 3 to fit.
And of course the fourth beat of the measure is the single high f#.

Does this help?

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[burntgorilla]

Yes, that cleared up my question. Thanks a lot!