reading notes

[adoggie]

In piano sheet music, I noticed there are some upside-down notes, both in the treble and bass clefs.. do they signify notes that are supposed to be played with the left hand? If not, what do they stand for?

[sydmayne]

Not quite sure what you mean by "upside down" notes but if these notes are near the top of the stave and have the lines dropping down on the left hand side instead of rising from the note on the right hand side it is purely a typographic device to save having the lines extending above and below the stave. It makes no difference to how these are played.

Hope this answers your question

[snapdarlich]

I'm not entirely sure of what you mean, but well edited music will usually notify with a small L.H or R.H. if the music on either clef should be taken over with the other hand, if you see what I mean...

Also when writing music, if you go above the middle line on a stave, the tails go down and below the middle line they go up. Of course this can be ignored if there are run of notes (i.e. groups of quavers ascending) crosses the middle.

I'm not very good at this explaining malarkey!

[copippin]

Both your answers are correct.