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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.