#### Understanding Demisemiquavers

Piano Solo June 11, 2024

Learn sheet music part9: Demisemiquavers

A demisemiquaver, also known as a thirty-second note, is one of the shortest note values used in modern music notation. It has the following characteristics:

- **Symbol**: A filled-in note head with a stem and three flags.

- **Duration**: It lasts for 1/32 of the time of a whole note.

#### Steps to Play Demisemiquavers on the Piano

- Understand that demisemiquavers (thirty-second notes) are half the duration of a sixteenth note.

2. **Use a Metronome**:

- Set a slow tempo on your metronome to start, around 60 beats per minute (BPM).

- Count out loud or in your head in subdivisions. For example, for a 4/4 time signature: "1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a" for sixteenth notes. For demisemiquavers, it would be double that speed: "1 e & a e & a 2 e & a e & a" and so on.

3. **Practice Right-Hand and Left-Hand Separately**:.

#### Example Exercise

**C Major Scale Exercise**:

- Set metronome to 60 BPM.

- Play the C Major scale ascending and descending using demisemiquavers.

- Count "1 e & a e & a 2 e & a e & a 3 e & a e & a 4 e & a e & a" for each measure in 4/4 time.

**Pattern Practice**:

- Choose a pattern like C-D-E-F-G-F-E-D.

- Play this pattern repeatedly using demisemiquavers.