Red Velvet — Pose Piano Sheet Music

 In Korean 레드벨벳.

Simplicity: Easy (A beginner’s guide on practice and performance notes on how to play this sheet music is below)

💾 Download PDF from OneDrive archive (114 kB, 5 pages)

💽 Pose Composition

‘Pose’ is a Pop-piece by Red Velvet premiered on August 16, 2021.

Read a Genius entry.

Listen on Spotify while sight-reading the score and marking phrases, rhythm, voicing, articulation, and dynamics.

Pianistically, the score has no technical difficulties:

• Tempo is 125 beats per minute.
• A key is F Minor, the rarely used key that seems “depressed”, the sound is contemplative.
• It makes the sound of ‘Pose’ close to the sound of several songs. You can mix choruses with verses from different songs to develop keen ear, internalize the concept of a key and harmony, or create a medley to upload on YouTube. Ear is like a muscle – the more you use it the stronger it gets.

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🎭 Learn Pose Sheet Music on Piano

📅 Practicing

• Casually glance through to familiarise yourself with the score.
• Stretch and warm-up every time you play.
• Touch the keys with fingertips not with whole finger pulps (cut nails short).
• Practice no more than three repetitions in a row (otherwise you lose focus.)

🖐🏻 Fingering

• Add fingering in dense places (on printed pages or use a “comment” feature in your pdf-viewer.)
• Aim for less change of hand sition. 5-4-3-2-1 is better than 4-3-2-1-2.
• Play all notes within a phrase together simultaneously — you will understand the comfortable fingering.
• Legato is easier to play with adjacent fingers, and staccato is easier between disjunct fingers over larger intervals.

𝄞 Melody

• The right hand plays a melody in ‘Pose’. Red Velvet recorded the melody that shines above the accompaniment, so play accordingly.
• Count out loud. The truth is that listeners are far less concerned about wrong notes than an inconsistent pulse, a lack of rhythmic control, or a sense of rhythmic instability.
  Put the metronome at 50 beats per minute. Then 52. Then 54, etc. until you reach the original tempo.
• Focus on differences in touch and attack: articulation (legato vs. staccato) and dynamics (loud vs. quiet). Vary them throughout the piece. Manually put down 𝓟 🙵 𝓕 and < 🙵 > markings with a highlighter.
• Mark phrases with a highlighter in a bubble. Play the first half of any phrase louder than the last half. Accentuate the highest-pitched note in a phrase.
• Wherever you see a slur (♩⁀♪), play the second slurred note very quietly.

𝄢 Accompaniment

• The left hand plays a supportive and gentle accompaniment. It is always softer than the right hand and has no phrasing, so give every first beat of every measure an accent.
• Keep the upper notes (played by the thumb) lighter and the lower notes (played by the pinky finger) louder.
• Put fingers close to the black keys.
• If you feel fatigue in the left hand, modify the score:
  • leave out notes,
  • transfer the top notes to your right hand,
  • arpeggiate or break the chord in an upward pattern.
• Move and rotate the wrist, elbow, and forearm.

🅿 Pedal

Sustaining pedal helps accumulate sound and broaden harmonic effects, it doesn’t make you a better player by hiding errors. Pedal as little as possible to push the melody forward. Like fingering, pedaling marks should be added personally to suit your

• palm (small palms need help of the pedal to connect large intervals),
• piano (smaller upright and digital pianos are forgiving to over-pedaling),
• room size (an open space needs more pedaling),
• range: when both hands are playing higher, use more pedal.

Pedal twice per measure or more. Delay pedal pressing for milliseconds to weaken the resonance. Remove the pedal wherever you see a rest symbol.

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🧠 How to Memorize Sheet Music

Worry less that you can’t learn scores — the best pianists in the world learn their concert pieces for no less than two years prior to the first performance. Learning more pieces makes it easier to memorize a single one. I post a score every other day, so sight-read a new song everyday to develop memory.

Learn chord symbols — usually in the left hand are only several chords in a progression, so it is easier to remember. To learn the progression

• sing root notes (the first letter of a chord symbol) as a melody,
• create a word made of the first letters of the chord progression.

Understand the structure of ‘Pose’: parts are separated by a double bar line (‖). Work on the hardest parts more than on the easiest.

From the very first time, try to recall or play by ear a part after you played it, part by part.