[Sue Lee's Piano Technique] A long note is emphasized "by itself"

 [A long note is emphasized "by itself"]

Look for long notes when you're confused about which note is the main note when you're playing a piano melody.

For example, what is the longest note in bar 1 of this score?

It's a quarter note, "E"

E is the most energy-driven sound in this part. If you sing a song, you can easily see that e is the most emphasized.

Similarly, the B, which starts with a pick up bar, is played lightly with a short note, and the energy-driven note becomes a "G" with a total length of two beats.

If you put weight on a wrong short note rather than a long note, the phrase of the song will be broken.

Likewise, what is the most emphasized note in this song??

will be "D" in measure 5, right?

A,B flat,A,D should be played at different weights.

Now, then, is every long note always emphasized? 

No. 

at measure 8, F is the half note. But this part is the end of the phrase, so the sound should be getting softer.

If you cut that part shortly, it would be a very light finish, but by playing it long, it makes it possible to draw like the bow of the string, long and smoothly.

The long note is an important key point in the song.

In addition, a unique rhythm is created by a mixture of long and short phonetics, so how you handle long notes determines the vitality of the music.

However, a long note should not be expressed as an "accent."

Emphasis is not just about the sound coming out individually, but within the "flow" of energy.

You have to get more energy into the long pitch.

The performer should controls this by weight.