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“Doctor Sheet Music”

Miley has a very low voice range, if you can sing this low, sing one octave lower that written. Otherwise sing as written, one octave higher from the original pitch.

Imitate the vocal delivery by Miley Cyrus or it won't sound as the song. The vocal part is relatively rigid and precisely timed, but delivery is speech-like and many parts are of an indefinite pitch. The hook (bars 25—32) has layered vocals, play the lower keys softer.

"Doctor (Work It Out)" is played with a straight rhythm in common time. It is easy to count for beginners; accent strong beats to maintain a steady pulse. Practice slowly along with the recording.

The track has an unusual structure: chorus verse hook. Play every part differently, as expressively as possible. If some notes are too difficult to play, omit them focusing on emotions instead of sightreading.

A musical texture is scarce. "Doctor (Work It Out)" has a bass-guitar riff as accompaniment that is unable to provide a harmony to support Miley's vocal.

"Doctor (Work It Out)" is an atonal piece although its verses are centered around the E Major *key,* with its fifth, the B note as a chanting tone; and its hook is in E Minor. The underlying harmony lacks motion and is fundamentally static: there is no sense of harmonic progression.

Remember that the notation system was not intended to represent the sound of modern electronic music with its layered vocal, computer-generated sounds, and inflections of modern electronic instruments. My piano sheet music can only show you the score within the boundaries of the twelve-note scale and a metered rhythm; alas, the pitch and rhythm have little to do with the aesthetic value of the track. Listen to the song before practicing to fully imitate the beauty of the song: its *timbre, phrasing, inflections.* Play the song, not sheet music. Sing a phrase before playing it on your keyboard.

00:08 Chorus

00:40 Verse

00:56 Hook

01:11 Chorus

01:45 Verse

02:01 Hook

02:17 Chorus