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Numbers and Notes

On one level, playing the piano is easy. Music uses the numbers 1 to 5 and the letters A to G. So now let's take some numbers and put them with some musical notes.

You'll recall last time you played the first part of the song "Three Blind Mice" using fingers 2, 3, and 4. Here's what that looks like as a rhythm.

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