From the course: Piano Lessons: 3 Sight Reading & Classical Pieces

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A Section: m. 1-4, left hand

A Section: m. 1-4, left hand

From the course: Piano Lessons: 3 Sight Reading & Classical Pieces

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A Section: m. 1-4, left hand

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- Let's start by taking a look at the time signature for the Moonlight Sonata. You'll notice it's indicated as four, four which means we'll be counting four quarter notes for each measure. Normally we would play two eighth notes for every quarter note, but a quick look at the first measure and we can see we have a lot more than should fit. Normally in a four quarter note measure you should have what? Eight eighth notes, right? But here we actually have 12, what's going on? We're creating what we call triplets. So in the space of two eighth notes we're actually going to be fitting three. In other words, for every beat we're gonna have three eighth note triplets. It's a way of fudging the math in music, okay. So let's take a look at the opening triplets for this incredibly beautiful piece. So let's find our first notes. Remember ew is our bottom g clef staff line note, as you can see we have two ledger lines that we need to climb down to find the first note. So e, first ledger line down…

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