How y'all doing. Must be nice in here. Well, i'm new to music and reading sheet music. I have a very simple piece and it's mind boggling. I don;t know how to post images. Thing is, there some kind of note used on the staff that I never seen before. Can some one help me out? Thanks

Hey, this is a snippet of the sheet music. Can someone decipher the notes for me. I know how to read simple sheet music but on this one there this note that looks like thwo cherries on single stem. Please help me out. Thanks

Here's the link to an image of the sheet music. It's just a piece of clip.

http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipph8.jpg

Thanks all

Sorry, I forgot to mention, the time signature is 4/4

I'm assuming that you know how to count eighth notes. The "cherries" on the single stem are just played at the same time. Please tell me if i'm a little unclear.

your notes on there are

E+F SHARP E+F NATURAL E+F NATURAL again E+G AND G+B FLAT

The cherrie ones are played at half beats 2 of thoes makes up 1 beat basically if you were counting in 4/4 time that cherrie one would be counted as 1 2 3 AND 4.

you have a half beat rest and then a half beat at the start so that counts as 1 beat then your next 2 notes are counted as 1 beat and the another half beat and the notes at the end with the double dots is 2 beat even though its classed as 1 beat the double dots represent another beat.

hiope this helps are i am confusing lol

thanx dacoda u explained it better than i did, but the # on the f applies for the whole measure.

i wasnt sure if both F's were sharps as didnt see any # sign at the beguning of the bar.

u sure its another sharp? lol

Hey, Thanks a lot. I understand this now. This wasn't so hard after all. Well you guys are the masters at this. In case you were wondering, This is a clip from "The Simpsons" theme song.

I didn't no the two "eighth" notes on the single stem were played together. I was playing them as separate notes and it didn't add up. It all makes sense now. Once again, Thanks to all of you guys.

Glad it helped you iseeghosts