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ChristopherSchlegel
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07/22/2021 2:06 am
Originally Posted by: josselin.anton

Anders sings do re mi fa sol etc (around 1min of the video) he says do on the G chord which is supposed to be Sol and end up on the A string and says it is Ré (it should be La?)

Can you please tell me if I am missing something?

[p]There are 2 kinds of solfege: fixed and movable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge

It sounds like you are familar with fixed solfege in which C is always do, D is always re, and so on. But you might not know about movable in which do is always simply the first note of any major scale you want to play. In this cases the solfege syllables can be used to represent the scale degrees of any major scale. Hence it is called "movable". Make sense?

Hope that helps!


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