Edelweiss Songbook to Music, the Process
Music Theory
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47m
Aloha Friends! Here’s a lesson that can teach us how to convert the information from sheet music to a useable chord melody. We’re using the song Edelweiss from the Sound of Music as our example. It’s kind of a long video, and sort of assumes that you’ve either been following our lessons for a while or have an intermediate level of understanding of music theory, but it can be useful to you if you want to start creating your own arrangements of tunes that you have in books or notation!
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