I have a question regarding contemporary piano arrangements

[leoben]

Hello, I'm learning to play the piano and I am encountering a problem reading voice and keyboard arrangements. I've noticed that the music seems to be written as close to the original recordings as possible however, In the treble clef  for the piano part I've seen that many of the arrangements (in fact all of the ones that I've encountered) double the melody for the voice in there, they dont do this in the original recordings. I was wondering if it was possible to omit the melody for the voice in the piano (it would be sung of course).

Perhaps they do this so that you can play instrumental. I dont know. Alot of pedalling involved phewww,

any help would be appreciated thanks

Leo

[jpianoflorida]

I"m a little confused.....do you mean there are 2 treble clefs and one bass clef? or something more?

[ksnmohan]

Hallo leoben,

You can ofcourse leave the "melody notations for the voice" and just practice the "piano" part. Then how will you, during your practice, be able to co-relate the voice to your piano part? - this you will require for the final (audience/recording) performance. 

The Sheet music you have is prepared just for this main purpose.

I suggest that you first play just the voice part seperately and record it on a CD. Then practice only the piano part, with the CD being played for the voice portion.  Less confusing! 

Regards
Prof K S Narayanan
Chennai (Madras), India