Hi everyone,

So glad to have been of help. I'm not sure that I understand piano students any better than anyone else, I suppose I've always liked theory and I'm dealing with it all the time.

As Mac said proper notation is proper notation. Looking through scores and even working through some graded theory books would you help a lot.

The "theoretical" reason for the quaver tied to the crotchet has to do with one of the the "rules" of grouping quavers.

That is: in 4/4 time when quavers are involved,the middle 2nd and 3rd beats can't be joined.

eg. you can't have a crotchet followed by 4 quavers all joined together and then another crotchet. The 4 quavers should be separated in to 2 groups.
(As a by the way the stem on the C and G in the bass staff should really go down, this is all to do with the middle line. Theory rules again. So many of them!)

A good little book that might be of some help is Alfred's "Essential Dictionary of Music Notation". I've found it to be really useful.

This has been an interesting exercise,keeps the old grey matter working. LOL

All the best

yjoh

[i]Music...a joy for life.