Happy Birthday

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NOTE: Happy Birthday has been ruled to now be in the Public Domain. So your Texas Road House restaurants and the like can actually sing the song and not their made of songs.

Performance Notes for Happy Birthday

Here is how I remember the melody of Happy Birthday:

• Song starts on the 5th of the key of the song. Plays that note twice and then up a perfect 4th (Here Comes the Bride interval) and down 1/2 step
• repeat, then up a perfect 5th (Do You Hear What I Hear? Interval and a bell-like tone, done 1/2 step), then repeat and go up an octave.
• The octave (8) is the fifth of a descending major triad, the I chord, then descending 1/2 step, then to a whole step lower.
• Finally up a major sixth. This one sounds a little dissonant in the context of intervals of the melody. Then down 1/2 step then to the root of key/scale, up M2 and back to the root/tonic of the key — DONE

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