by Anonymous on August 18th, 2009

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I know a trill is played with the note and the note above it. When they want you to play a trill on 2 notes do you hold the bottom note and only do the trill on the top note?

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  • by Fastetti on October 3rd, 2009

    Fastetti

    Many instruments will not allow a double trill, that is, two separate notes with another note to be alternated above each. The most versatile live soloist instruments are the keyboards. It is possible to trill two adjacent keys with two or more fingers and large clusters of keys using both hands.

    To avoid confusion, there are optimum ways to write trills. Each note trilled should have its own trill indication. If a trill is to alternate between 2 (or more notes) and a single (or more note[s]), a special beam with notehead modification across both halves of the trill clearly defines how to trill the various possibilities.

    If any note is to be held without trilling there should be an absence of the trill indication.

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