Hey friends, how's it going? Well, I have a few questions regarding sheet music. I have included diagrams to make my questions clearer.

Question 1:

http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/6531/clipid6.jpg

In the above short clip, I know the curve over the two notes means you must blend the notes. When I blend the notes, what will be the results?
(I'm just dicussing the two chords with the curve line over them)
So I'm guess the notes will be

'F+A+E' And 'E+G+C#'

As you can see, I stepped down the pitch. Am I doing it the correct way?
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Question 2:
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8205/clip2eq7.jpg

In the above clip, I know the '>' symbol means to go gradually softer on the notes it appear over.

Do I go gradually softer per measure like this?

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1197/dim2ss3.jpg


OR, do I keep going softer as I go down the line like this?

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4166/dim1ia5.jpg

The bottom notes of the chords are still F and A; only the top note has changed from E to D. Sorry if that didn't answer your question, but I'm not quite sure what you're asking.
As for the second question, this, >, is an accent mark. It means to place emphasis on that note; in other words, to play it a bit more loudly.

Question 1

In that bar the F and A are only played 5 times as the 6th f and A is held on from the 5th note.

play the F,A AND E together with the fingering 1,2 and 5 and just move your down to the D with your 4th finger not playing that F and A again this is called tied notes you only play it once the The D will be played as a seperate not but will blen in with the F and A from the previous note.

Question 2
the > is an accent and the dot is stacatto so put more emphasis on the notes that have > above the this is so they sound out more like an emphasis on the note

i hope this helps
Blessings
Steve

this may help too the 1st note is 1 beat the 2nd set of notes is tied add the 2 beats together is 2 beats the 2nd note is not played but held.

the next note it a half beat the next 2 are 2 half beats which makes up 1 beat tied

Thanks guy, I didn't know I had to hold the F and A notes for the specified time. I was always playing it as separate notes. Makes sense now.

That is just a slur. It isn't a tie. If it were, there would be curved lines connecting each note: one from the first F to the second, and one from the first A to the next. I'd put up an example, but I don't know how to post images.

when u click to post there is a bit above that says add melody you just add the notes you want.

Agent X

Can you upload image to: www.imageshack.us
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I'd really like to see what you are talking about. Now i'm confused with ties and slurs. Also, if you like send to my email, disskid@gmail.com

Thanks

Oh, so tie has to do with same pitch and slurs has to do with different pitch ...

now in this case

http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/6531/clipid6.jpg


The slurred notes would be played like E and D# instead of E and D ... am I correct?