Beginners’ piano course: Lesson 6 notes

Lullaby

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3 Œ œ œ œ Œ
1 4 2 4 2 3

&4
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œ ˙ Œ
5 2 4

& œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ˙ Œ œ œ œ Œ
5 3 1 3 4 2

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Some important rests...

This bar contains two crotchet (quarter

4 Œ Œ Ó Ó ∑
note) rests on beats 2 and 4.
∑ ∑
&4 œ œ

This bar contains a minim (half note) rest

4 Ó Ó Ó ∑ ∑ ∑
&4 ˙ on beats 3 and 4.

The first bar of this stave contains

4 ∑
a semibreve (whole note), and the
∑ ∑
&4 w second bar contains a semibreve
rest, covering all four beats.

An important thing to remember about rests is that, unlike notes, they almost always appear
in the same position on the staff. So the crotchet rest always stretches from the top space to
the bottom, the minim rest always sits on top of the middle line and the semibreve rest always
hangs from the second line from the top, whatever clef you are in. Exceptions are possible,
especially when two ‘voices’ (i.e., melodies, usually) are being represented on the same clef and
one has a rest at a point when another doesn’t. However, these are relatively rare, at least in the
kind of music you’ll be dealing with in the early stages of learning to play the piano.
The scale of G major, left and right hands

4 œ œ #œ œ #œ œ œ
&4 œ œ œ œ œ œ
1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 3 2 1

œ ˙

? 44 œ œ œ #œ œ #œ œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ œ ˙
5 4 3 2 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5

Note that the F sharp (F#, see video for explanation) is notated in both clefs as a regular F (i.e.,
top line of the treble stave, second-from-top line of the bass stave) with a sharp sign (#) in front
of it.

In music we always call # a ‘sharp sign’, and never a ‘pound sign’ or ‘hash’. There are other ways
of showing that the F is an F sharp (for example, by using a key signature, which we’ll learn
about soon). If we simply do it by putting the sharp sign in front of the note, as we have done
here, we refer to the sign as an accidental.