clever? moi?it is the only way I know how! I don't play any instrument well enough, or at any rate can't remember enough of what I learned in music theory to pull it out of air like that.
I found out as i got older that many musicians never learned solfaichez in school which shocked me. In voice class we did some sight singing every day! and the same teacher had us do a lot of it in theory class, too.
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