u/Glittering-Taro-2410

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This might be a dumb question. So I'm learning this piece that at one point has one particular note that can kinda belong to either the melody or the accompaniment. Because I want it to sound as part of the melody I play it with my right thumb.

But it also clearly belongs to the accompaniment (although that's just my feeling, it's not really notated as such). More than that, the entire piece up to this point has this pattern on the left hand that goes jumping from one note to two notes, over and over again. So to suddenly play one note and then one again, just feels wrong, to break the pattern like that and leave my thumb floating (pun not intended). So it just feels right to me to simply play that one key with both thumbs anyway.

It's clearly redundant, but doing it differently feels weird. Is that a wrong thing to do?

Here's a screenshot with the left hand pattern and the note in particular. By the way, the fact that the two note groups on bars 37-41 are on the F cleff doesn't seem to mean much, in other pages they are placed on the G cleff as well, probably just to avoid adding ledger lines I would guess.

https://preview.redd.it/nxxlhnlsbmyg1.png?width=2047&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f8db90851c32a2a98680a0b24d791528696fbf0

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u/Glittering-Taro-2410 — 22 days ago