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Music: 5 of 7                                                                                                                             Music: 6 of 7




                                          Lorde - Royals                                                Bastille - Pompei
 Reading sheet music: sheet music looks complicated but just like the notes on the piano, it follows a
 pattern based on the first seven letters of the alphabet. Once we understand this, sheet music   Verse 1:  Verse 1:
                      I've never seen a diamond in the flesh
                                                                                      I was left to my own devices
 becomes easier to read.  I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies               Many days fell away with nothing to show
                      And I'm not proud of my address
 Sheet music looks like a row of five lines with dots placed on it. The dots are either directly on top of   In a torn up town, no postcode envy  Prechorus:
 the lines, or they are in the space in between the line.                             And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love

                      Bridge:                                                         Grey clouds roll over the hills bringing darkness from above
                      But every song's like
 One of the easiest ways to remember where the notes are is to use the rhymes shown below. The   Gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin' in the bathroom  Chorus:
                      Bloodstains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room
                                                                                      But if you close your eyes
 first rhyme tells us the notes that are on the lines (E, G, B, D and F) and the second rhyme tells us   We don't care  Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
                      We're driving Cadillacs in our dreams
                                                                                      And if you close your eyes
 the notes that are in the spaces (FACE in the space).  But everybody's like          Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
                      Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece                    How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
                      Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash                     How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
                      We don't care
                      We aren't caught up in your love affair                         Verse 2:
                                                                                      We were caught up and lost in all of our vices
                      Chorus:                                                         In your pose as the dust settled around us
                      And we'll never be royals (royals)
                      It don't run in our blood                                       Bridge:
 Some people find it easier to learn just one note, and then using that to work out the rest by   That kind of luxe just ain't for us  Oh, where do we begin?
                                                                                      The rubble or our sins?
                      We crave a different kind of buzz
 following the alphabet:  Let me be your ruler (ruler)                                Oh, oh, where do we begin?
                      You can call me queen bee                                       The rubble or our sins?
                      And baby, I'll rule (I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule)
                      Let me live that fantasy


                      Verse 2:
                      My friends and I, we've cracked the code
                      We count our dollars on the train to the party
 If we remember that E is the bottom note on the stave, then we know that the space above it must   And everyone who knows us knows

 be F, because F follows E in the alphabet. The note above this must be G, because G follows F.  That we're fine with this, we didn't come from money
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