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109.172Apply to “Happy Birthday”
Because it is public domain, use it as a complete laboratory.
Play the normal four phrases.
Then add:
Interlude
develop only the opening repeated-note idea.
Do not state full melody.
Move it perhaps through:
C
Am
Dm
G.
Then return melody.