Page 47 - Year 7
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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