 Hi guys this is Jason here from Nathaniel. In this lesson we are going to do a lot really. So we are going to first look at one of my favorite songs of all time from the movie The Sound of Music called Do Re Mi or Do A Dear I guess I don't know what it's officially called. I think it's Do Re Mi and then we look at the melody obviously how to play the melody the every single note the phrasing the timing and all that we have it notated also for you so you could check it out you could download it at the link and we'll also look at the chords of the song and the actual chords on the original key with all of the embellishments and what I also like to do is to talk about how you can understand this song a bit better and how this song can help you really grow forward as a composer by teaching you the concept this song really uses really stresses on a lot which is secondary dominance that's what we call it in theory which is basically a topic which allows you to use chords out of the scale and then resolve back to chords which are inside the scale okay and last but not least which you have to stay tuned for at the very end we are going to put it all together by developing various versions of this song you will be able to sing and play it together if you're a singer and a piano player or if you'd like to play the melody as well as the chords with a nice rhythm pattern at whichever skill level I guess there will be something for you to digest so before we get started it'll be great if you can subscribe to our youtube channel turn on the bell for notifications like share and anything else you'd like to do which will be nice for the video so let's just get started now with the melody of the song so the songs on B flat major let's first look at the scale B flat E flat those are your two flats B flat and E flat it's a really nice scale on the piano okay B flat C D E flat F G A B flat again so three two flats in the scale now a few tricks before you actually start playing the melody you could play B flat with your thumb but generally we avoid the thumb especially when playing melodies on the black note so you could just use your index finger to kind of go before the thumb which is always on C C will be a nice spot for the thumb and the index finger could go before the C to play B flat and it can go above the C to play D so so you could just get acquainted with that sort of a drill something like that and then of course you may also get used to the fingering of the B flat scale which is generally we start on the index finger index thumb back to index as I told you it crosses middle cross end on the ring okay so that's pretty much it so let's look at the melody I'll play it to you line by line and then let's look at it so first line do a dear a female dear okay do a dear a female dear so you could go do a dear now do a dear a female you have to come back to B flat so maybe either use your index finger to slide back or you can even use your thumb if you're okay with the thumb you can you play with the thumb so do a dear a female dear okay and then re you need to cross your thumb over to the C re a drop of golden sun so I guess we'll just stick with this fingering first three fingers and first three fingers for even the second line so do a dear a female dear re a drop of golden sun one more time let's do that together do a dear a female dear re a drop of golden sun okay and then moving forward almost the same rhythm so that's a dotted eighth note following followed by a quaver right that's pretty much the structure thumb so if you can get that rhythmic phrase or the motif into your head you can really use it for pretty much the whole song okay moving on so whatever we looked at so a dear a female dear re a drop of golden sun and now me a name I call myself okay again very similar it's just the pattern going up and she sings it like that dough is the first note of the scale as per you know the western solfege language in India dough is the sa or the first swara of the scale or you can just call it the root if you will see you go dough a dear a female dear so the first word or the first note is dough or that solfege interval name right and of course it's spelled as DOE which is actually a female dear so it's a nice interplay on words really amazingly written song and if you haven't already make sure you watch the movie it's a great musical and just watching it even without needing to learn it or transcribe it or any of that just watching it is education watching and listening and digesting the music is is education you know so moving forward dough we've done dough a dear a female dear re a drop of golden sun forget the left hand for now I'm going to come to the left hand so hang on let's only look at the right hand moving on me which is the third note of b flat which is D me a name I call myself and then far a long long way to run okay me a name I call myself which is the third note D me a name I call myself far a long long way to run so you could use your last three fingers for the far a long long way to run far a long long way to run so you keep that shape sort of here so let's do the first four lines now which we've learned and that's half the song so let's see dough a dear a female dear a drop of golden sun moving on me a name I call myself far a long long way to run okay I apologize for not being able to sing as good and as high as Julie Andrews but I'm just trying to give you a sense of the melody right and if you're a female vocalist please go one octave higher it's not something which I am very comfortable doing but yeah it will be your octave will be dough a dear a female dear you'll have to go high it sounds really nice for a female voice actually speaking for a male voice it goes a bit low but anyway so you go now moving on to the the one two three four fifth line now in the song which is so a needle pulling thread okay let's get the fingering so a needle pulling thread okay so a needle pulling thread again so being the fifth note of the scale that's f and again a great play on words so a needle pulling thread so so cross your index so a needle pulling thread pinky on the thread so a needle pulling thread and then let's move on to the la la a note to follow so so here you'll have to cross your thumb so it's slightly tricky just follow along so coming back to that so lyric so a needle pulling thread okay la a note to follow so so I do know to tuck your thumb under the middle finger la a note to follow so you end there okay and then the same melody sort of keeps going higher tea a drink with jam and bread okay tea a drink with jam and bread okay I like to kind of end with my ring finger because then I of course that'll bring us back to dough as she says so you come back the finger also needs to come back isn't it so let's just do that again from the so line so a needle pulling thread so he goes so a needle pulling thread cross that then la a note to follow so now tea tea a drink with jam and bread try to end with your ring finger okay so tea a drink with jam and bread then that will bring us back to dough repeat that will bring us so you can do us that will bring us could slide this finger in then play the thumb that will bring us back to dough and you come exactly to the index finger on B flat or the thumb on B flat if you want to use the thumb that will bring us back to dough and goes on okay let's just do the whole thing once and fingering is not specific it's not compulsory that you follow these fingerings but I've just given you a kind of a basic guideline to get acquainted because it's a little tricky melody right you find that there are quite a few notes outside the scale and we learn this melody actually in school so one might argue that it's a very simple song you know sometimes it's branded with a nursery rhyme and stuff like that but I think it's a very very interesting song it has a lot of harmonic and melodic movement and also rhythmic stuff okay so let's just wind up the discussion on the melody by doing it you know with the whole thing from the beginning okay and I'm as I said I'm just playing the left hand for effect I'm going to talk about the left hand very shortly so dough a dear a female dear ray a drop of golden sun me me a name I call myself far a long long way to run so so a needle pulling thread la la a note to follow so tea tea a drink with jam and bread that will bring us back to dough oh oh oh dough and then you can do it with the tempo of the song something like dough a dear a female dear ray a drop of golden sun me a name I call myself far a long long way to run so a needle pulling thread la la a note to follow so tea a drink with jam and bread that will bring us back to dough oh oh dough okay so that's about the melody now we are going to move to the harmony the chords and as I tell you the chords I'm going to also look at a little bit of the theory behind the chords because there are some chords which I think need to be explained they are outside the key so why is that the case usually chords come from the scale that's why we write the scale before we learn the songs so now let's look at the amazing chords in this song right so now let's look at the left hand well there are quite a few chords right but let's just start with the roots of the chords and I'm going to call out the chord as we play so in the left hand what you could do to get started is just hold the chord don't bother about any kind of rhythm because a melody is already kind of tricky so just hold the chord or what could also work is just hold on a few notes of the chord right for two reasons one is it makes it easy to play and the second reason it also sounds better because in the bass if you start playing many notes it can give you a very muddy sound so even if you knock off a couple of notes of the chord like for example the fifth which is not so important it could work you know so let's see how it goes I'm going to start with b flat and I'm only going to talk about the chord roots first so that's b flat and play each chord as a simple pulse four hits each bar you can use octaves as well a drop of golden sun or you could even use toggled octaves or scattered octaves so if you like that very bass like right and same thing for me a name I call myself same story b flat and f me a name I call myself f for a long long way to run and then it changes a little bit but we start with b flat as we did earlier so a needle pulling thread there you go to e flat you go to c at the la la a note to follow so you go to f there now d to g and then you can drop it to f if you want that would bring us e flat back to so I would imagine the first four lines are rather easy right you just go b flat and f it's the remaining four lines which are the challenge so anyway let's do the first four lines once more just to get a hang of it b flat f and then back to b flat f and then you do so a needle pulling thread that's e flat okay then c with la la a note to follow so that's f and you go t with d here so I'll do that again t d so these are all root notes of the chords right you can also now play the actual chord so b flat major b flat d f so do a dear a female dear now this is how I am playing the f chord I am playing it as an f seventh so instead of playing that whole striad which sounds a bit cluttered I'm just making it easy for myself and just playing two notes f and e flat so let's do the two chords no a dear a female dear a a drop of golden sun okay back I call myself f far along the way to this is how I am playing f dominant seven f e flat okay moving forward back to b flat so a needle pulling thread you could play e flat with an inversion so a needle pulling okay then that's la with a c seventh or you can just play a normal c major la a note to follow so that's f major with an inversion so let's do that again so a needle but e flat with its inversion then la a note to follow so f with an inversion then d major so it's sort of like root inversion then root position of c inversion of f then root position of d inversion of g minor let's now do it from the so again just to recap b flat so a needle pulling thread e flat with inversion la c or c seventh la a note to follow so that's f then d a drink with jam and bread g minor then you can do b flat right after that or you can ignore the b flat let us e flat back to f major b flat oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh dear so those are your chords so in in conclusion we've looked at the melody in the right hand and we've looked at two ways to accompany your harmony in the left hand the first and the most simple way is to just take the roots of the chord isolate the roots of the chord and then figure out a rhythm pattern and think like how a bass player in a band would think right i think that's the most simplistic but yet groovy way to get started with your left hand some people try to play the entire chord and then the problem is not only about playing the chord it's about shifting from one to the other which you may find a bit tricky so if you're newer to the instrument and if you find if you're still getting acquainted with the tune just play simple bass notes in the left and then you can graduate towards the full chords or even stick with the root root and octave kind of thing it sounds quite good if you ask me sounds quite nice right sounds quite cool and then you we have the chord system hold the chords with the pulse or just hold it that's the chord thing e flat c f with inversion d g minor e flat f b flat right so moving forward we are going to analyze this song a bit closely right we are going to do that in the next part of this series so if you if your intention is just to kind of play the melody get the harmony going in the left hand sing along i i hope this was good moving forward we are going to really explore the song and see theoretically why it's such a masterpiece okay so head over to the next part and before you do if you haven't already don't forget to subscribe to our channel hit that bell for notifications and leave us a comment that'll be great and you can also download the notation and all my notes at the link in the description that'll also be a great support to our 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