An indication of Am just requires the 'total' harmony to be A minor, and you certainly don't want to be playing an A minor chord on the pedals, fully or partially. A plain Am chord symbol implies root position so a plain A pedal would suffice, with the parts played on the manuals adding up to A minor. Even then, the 5th can sometimes be omitted.</p>
You don't say what the piece is, but 'lead sheet' suggests that it's not classical! It's up to you how you create the A minor, maybe A pedal, plus Middle C and the E below it.</p>
Many home organists would probably interpret this with a full A minor chord on the lower manual. A more advanced player would look for ways of reducing the notes played, taking away the A root and maybe the 5th. I sometimes give my students my arrangement of 'My Funny Valentine' that only uses three notes at a time, one upper, one lower and one pedal. Works just fine, but adding an extra note here and there on the lower adds something, especially in the middle 8.</p>
Andy
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It's not what you play. It's not how you play. It's the fact that you're playing that counts.
It was (one of theseveral arrangements I found of) "Phantom of the Opera" theme by Andrew Lloyd Webber. How non-classical wouldanyone callthat, I'll leave them to decide...</P>
I start it with a crashing 8-finger (2x4) chord, yes, totalling Am. The score further writes Am in places as a 'courtesy to the player to parse the whole fingerings' in a much quieter passage (which also totals Amif themelody had a 'piano pedal'), otherwise it looks complete enough by itself.</P>
I've alsoread recommendations for beginning players of Mozart etc. to pre-parse their sheets with chord symbols for each phrase. Especially Mozart keeps quite faithfully to simple phrases in C, G, F, Am... Much of Czerny, Beyer and similar 19th century exercises focus on these patterns. Later composers got much less predictable.</P>
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