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Hi, I am Rita. I transcribe piano sheets for popular music. All my sheet music are accurate but simple, beginner-level transcriptions with lyrics (singing is good for health) and harmonic chords.

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To. X

Please, notice that I *doubled note values* to make sightreading easier for beginners. The track isn't recorded in the 2/2 time. "To. X" 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 "To. X" slowly along with the recording. Play every part differently, as expressively as possible. If some notes are too difficult to play, omit them focusing on emotions instead of sightreading.

It is important to remember that the notation system was not intended to represent the sound of modern pop music with its dirty layered vocal, computer-generated sound effects, 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.

Imitate the vocal delivery by Taeyeon or it won't sound as the song. The vocal part is rhythmic with pitch inflections (slurred notes). All inflected notes should be played very quietly. While trying to sound soft Taeyeon produced a lot of noise that of an indefinite pitch. A predominant vocal style is *staccato*.

A single vocal line accompanied by an instrumental part constitutes the entire musical texture. "To. X" has a semi-improvised, loosely organized and wandering melody and homophonic arrengement: the instrumental part provides a harmony to support the vocal but lacks its own melody.

"To. X" is transcribed in the original *key,* C Minor, and uses the same extended major and minor chords A♭maj7 G7 Cm7 F9 (or B♭). Extended chords help create richer sounds.

Notice the ellipsis (omitted chords) in the bars 71-72.

The aesthetic value of a melodic line is achieved through the use of conventional tonal behavior of skips and steps.

00:15 Verse I

01:04 Verse II

02:04 Bridge