Ok well I haven't visited these forums for well over a year (last visit october 6th, 2006), please somebody tell me if I put this in the wrong forum or anything, anyways starting on measure 31, the timing for the two hands is completely different, and I've spent so much time trying to learn this part to no avail. Is there any advice some veteran piano players could give me? I really wanna learn this song. :)

I would love to give some suggestions, but I'd need the score you're learning from. (.pdf, .gif. . .some sort of image of the sheet music)

It's the .gif from this site.

Don't take this hard, but the counting isn't different at all, it's actually very simple. The left hand just played on beats 1, 7, 9 and 11. It lines up with the right hand on the first part of the beats (triplets) and the third part of the beats (triplets).

Thanks for the advice, I see what you mean; I never noticed that before. Which hand would you recommend learning first, right or left?

I would learn the right first as it is a kind of framework that you can use to learn the left.

The importance with this piece (well, as with any piece actually) is the counting. 12/8 is unusual, but not difficult once you have it down. It helps of course to listen to the recordings a few times.

I'm currently playing it as well, and I haven't had problems until that lovely key change to Db. Ah well, 5 flats isn't that bad...

Anyhow - yes, I would learn the right hand first; the left hands is just triplets until part C. G'luck~

Actually, 12/8 is one of the most simplest meters around. Just think of 4/4 with triplets.

The only hard meters are those with odd meters 5/4 and above (7/8, 7/4, etc. and those even aren't to hard, 1-2-1-2-1-2-3 for 7/8).

13/8 gets my vote for hardest meter I've ever encountered.

If anyone's attempted Cirque du Soleil music: Pageant has 2+2+2+3/8. (Yes, that's how they wrote it.) The 7/8 in the other pieces is moderately relaxing after that :D