Common mistake

Believing a tune started higher is a different tune

It sounds like this

“If you sing it starting on a higher note, it's not really the same song any more.”

Why it’s wrong

Everyone recognises a tune sung by a deep voice and a high one; what stays the same is the pattern of distances.

The lesson that fixes it

→A tune is a pattern of distancesA melody is recognised by the distances between its notes, not by which notes they are: start it on a different note and move every note by the same amount, and it is still the same tune — so the character of music comes from distances, not from particular notes.read free

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