Why is the last semiquaver outside the last triplet of the
measure? Because it should be! You can think of the last quarter
beat of the measure as being divided into three voices: a) An
eighth rest and two eighth notes ( b) A dotted eighth note and a
sixteenth note ( c) A quarter note ( The last eighth note of
voice a) should be placed approximately one third from the end
of an imagined full quarter note length, while the sixteenth
note of voice b) should be placed one quarter from the end of
this imagined length. The last semiquaver isn't going to be
played, right? Wrong! Voice b) is the melody! The other notes
are (mainly) accompaniment.2 Listen to this recording and you
will understand how it should be played. The sheet music or
notation used for that recording might not be identical to
yours, but you should get the idea. The music, "Piano Sonata No.
14" (in C sharp) by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a piano sonata that
in your sheet music has been adopted for the guitar. It is
nicknamed the Moonlight Sonata, (o