Non-musician obviously.
I hear Do-Ray-Me…etc but can’t get the rest.
Thanks- love music and looking to understand it better.
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*”Do – Re – Mi – Fa – Sol – La – Ti/Si”* is just a system to assign syllables to musical notes, created so people could sing in tune more easily.
You may have heard of *”C – D – E – F – G – A – B” (which are the white keys on a piano)*. Well, that’s another system to organize notes, but singing syllables (say, *Fa*) instead of letters (*F*) is much easier. Singing “*Sol/So*” is stronger than singing “G”. This is called **solfège**.
Now, it gets a bit confusing when you learn that English speaking countries use what’s called “movable solfège” instead of “fixed solfège”.
For example, Spanish speakers use “fixed solfège”, meaning “Do” always represents the same pitch: a “C” note for an English speaker. But English speakers/movable solfège users adjust “Do” to represent the first note of any scale, rather than the specific “C” pitch.
[for more details: Most countries don’t use ABCDEFG for note names](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVA8bgSBt5A)
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