Sheet music?

[Jessicrawrr]

I can't read sheet music, I've been trying to learn Not like the movies - Katy perry on the keyboard so I can sing and play at a show my schools doing, I'm learning from a youtube tut but he doesn't do it slow enough for me to pick most of it up ;P
if there's any experts on that kind of stuff help, could anyone translate these into like abcdefg yeah i'm simple
oh and could you point out which is left hand keys and right hand please
+rep and furni on habbo if you want it for doing it for me

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oh and you don't have to write down the verse for it 2 times, same for chorus any bits that repeat just tell me which ones repeat, Thanks again
it's like a foreign language to me lol ;P

[Alex3213]

Unfortunately I am very busy so I don't have enough time to actually change it into A1, C3 etc. However, normally you have the bass clef being for your left hand whilst the treble clef covers the right. Look out for patterns, you may be able to work out where the chorus' are and where the verses are.

As for the notes, as I said I am very busy. However, you can't read music so it may be a bit confusing but on a stave there are 5 different lines, obviously representing different notes. Sometimes there might be notes with extra lines on them, being leger lines. Work yourself up in 2s depends on what cleff you are working in. Middle C on the keyboard has one leger line on top of the base clef (for example bar 35 3rd note in bass clef) and the treble clef is one leger line below the stave, bar 25 treble clef bottom note of the chord F and C (the one which is lower down). The treble clef (or the G Clef) is the one which is at the top of each set of stave and the bottom represents the bass clef. Going from top to bottom, in the treble clef the five lines on the stave are F, D, B, G, E and the four gaps from top to bottom are E, C, A and F (the F is 1 octave lower) which spells FACE the other way round (a good way to remember it). The bass clef, in the same format is A, F, D, B, G (good boys dont find aligators) and the gaps are G, E, C, A.

Rests are important in music and you have to get them right to be honest. This link HERE is a good tutorial for rests, very simplistic. Your time signature is in 4/4 so a semi-breave REST will take up 4 beats, a minum REST 2, a crotchet REST 1, a quaver REST 1/2 and a semi-quaver REST a 1/4 of a beat. When playing the keyboard tap your foot every beat, it helps. Also put a bit of emphasis on the first beat (with your foot, not the note as there are no accents in the piece) as you will know if you're in time or not. Follow the beat!

Like the rests, note values are also important as you don't want to go out of time. I won't waffle on about that but you can click the link HERE for the same sort of purpose.

Just a few more things, 8va stands for octave, you play that part a bit higher. A flat (the one which looks like a b) means that instead of playing an E, for example, you lower it down by one semi tone, to make it the black key to the left. A sharp (#) raises it one semi-tone, so an E would become an F (as there is no black note to the right of E). Do not think that it wil always be black notes, like that example it could be a white one!

You are playing in Ab Major. Ab Major consists of four flats (mentioned above) - Bb, Eb, Ab, Db. Therefore, unless you see a natural sign, you will play a flat. A natural sign means that you put it to its original status, a Bb with a natural sign would become a B. These are accidentals and sometimes will occur. Click HERE to see a natural sign.

Some things look like overhead and underhead brackets and they have two different meanings. If the note is the same the note is tied. This means that both of the notes will be played for a longer duration (added up together, a crotchet and a minim would make 3 beats rather than 1 then 2). If there are 2 As next to each other but they do not have the bracket, they should not be played together, they should be seperate. Although I can't see any in the piece, a slur happens when there are two different notes with the bracket. A slur makes a graceful change and normally doesn't require an excessive change of fingering, you make it graceful but you must take off the first note before you play the second, you don't want to get out of time!

Just one more thing (ahha sorry) is a triplet. A triplet happens where the is a bracket like this [ ] under or over 3 notes. For example, 3 crotchets in bar 85. Instead of playing them for 3 beats, you play them for 2! It'll be a bit weird but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it.

I have tried to use as little tech. language as possible, but don't be hesitant to reply back asking any questions, or send me a Visitor Message on my profile!

edit: bloody hell i thought it was only like 3 paragraphs lol

[Jessicrawrr]

wow thanks a lot, i think i'll c+p and read it over and over so i can begin to understand it.
thanks for actually taking your time to help me +rep xo

[Alex3213]

wow thanks a lot, i think i'll c+p and read it over and over so i can begin to understand it.
thanks for actually taking your time to help me +rep xo

LOL yes I read through it and then was worried if you'd actually be able to understand it, as I said, any questions? VM me!

also np, it meant I could have a break from my work for a while