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INTRO Have you heard of "DO-RE-MI-FA-SO-LA-TI-DO"? - It was a song from the movie "Sound Of Music". It is important that you click here to listen to the song. This is the most important tune that you will need to remember in order to understand chords, scales and everything else. Sing it to yourself - just the "DO-RE-MI-FA-SO-LA-TI-DO" part. Did you sing it? If you sang it, then what you just did is you sang the formula that the entire world uses to make all types of music including Jazz, Heavy Metal, Reggae, Classical, etc... Ok...so now we have a formula, but where are all the constants - the things that never change? There are 12 of them. They are the foundation, the building blocks, the alphabet of this universal language that we call music.
Note that... The symbol # is called "sharp" The symbol b is called "flat"
Have you ever noticed the black keys on a piano? Well, these are the # and b notes
In the next few pages we'll learn once and for all:
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