The notes

Esta mesma mañá Saúl preguntoume como se dicían as notas en inglés. Por exemplo, se en galego ou castelán dicimos "sol", diremos 'sun' en inglés?

Aquí está a resposta para todos aos que vos interese, e veredes que non é tan distinto de como o dicimos nós... Debaixo do vídeo tendes a letra (lyrics) de apoio por se a queredes seguir.

LYRICS

Let's start at the very beginning

A very good place to start

When you read you begin with A-B-C

When you sing you begin with do-re-mi

Do-re-mi, do-re-mi

The first three notes just happen to be

Do-re-mi, do-re-mi

[Maria:]

Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti

[spoken]

Let's see if I can make it easy

Doe, a deer, a female deer

Ray, a drop of golden sun

Me, a name I call myself

Far, a long, long way to run

Sew, a needle pulling thread

La, a note to follow Sew

Tea, a drink with jam and bread

That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh)

[Repeat above verse twice]

[Maria:]

Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do

So-do!

[Maria: (spoken)]

Now children, do-re-mi-fa-so and so on are only the tools we use to build a song. Once you have these notes in your heads, you can sing a million different tunes by mixing them up. Like this.

So Do La Fa Mi Do Re

[spoken]

Can you do that?

[Children:]

So Do La Fa Mi Do Re

[Maria:]

So Do La Ti Do Re Do

[Children:]

So Do La Ti Do Re Do

[Maria: (spoken)]

Now, put it all together.

[Maria and Children:]

So Do La Fa Mi Do Re, So Do La Ti Do Re Do

[Maria:(spoken)]

Good!

[Brigitta: (spoken)]

But it doesn't mean anything.

[Maria: (spoken)]

So we put in words. One word for every note. Like this.

When you know the notes to sing

You can sing most anything

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