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Old 05-31-2021, 06:13 PM   #8 (permalink)
Indrid Cold
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Originally Posted by logic1976 View Post
If you look at the attachment in the third bar on the bass clef there is a quarter rest, two half notes and a quarter note, that adds up to 6 quarter note beats when only 3 are allowed. I've checked other transcriptions of the same piece and it's the same there too. What is going on? Plus, I don't understand that if a quarter rest is above a note does that mean that the rest is played before or after the note.
That's two voices in the bass clef. You can tell by the stems of the notes. The notes with down-stems are one voice and the note with the up-stem and quarter rest is another.
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