Playing two staves per hand?

[llhyperdude]

Hello,

I was wondering how to play a section of music where each hand is split into two staves and the notes are quite unreachable. Specifically I'm talking about Prelude in C# minor by Rachmaninoff. On the last page, notes on two staves for the same hand are joined with a bar. How should this be played?

-llhyperdude

[A-Flat]

Thats a really nice peice. When it has two staves, you just play both at the same time. It is pretty impossible to sight read.... :-/
Its not too hard to do, just remember to jump down to those chords and octaves.  Its not techinically very difficult, there just a lot of notes.  
I hope this helps.... If not u can just post another message.

[llhyperdude]

Hi, thanks for replying. I understand you are supposed to play it at the same time, but how is that physically possible in this piece? I mean we don't have 6 fingers and a 3 octave finger span.

[A-Flat]

ohhhh ok i get what you mean. Those bits where it has those chords and the same time in all four staves, you just have to jump from the bottom one to the top one very quickly. No-one in the world can play them at the same time  .
But in most of the bars with four staves you dont have to do this because the chords are not at the same time.
Hope this helps.  

[llhyperdude]

Alright...thanks! That would be cool though if people had 6 fingers and a 3 octave finger span. lol