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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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홀씨 악보

With Korean and Romanized lyrics on. Lyrics are always included in my sheet music, singing is good for health.

Notice that IU for "ㄹ" almost everywhere uses "r" sound, sometimes "d" but very rarely "l".

Imitate the soft, resonance-less vocal delivery by IU (아이유) or it won't sound as the song. The vocal part is relatively rigid and precisely timed, but it produces not much of a melody for the right hand. The melodic line is built on repetition of one note and stepwise motion. The composition lacks intervallic saturation thus its artistic meaning and expression suffer.

There are many places of of an indefinite pitch. I notated it as chanting on the tonic note. A predominant vocal style is staccato.

"Holssi 홀씨" is played with a swung rhythm in 12/8 time. It is hard to count for beginners. Practice slowly along with the recording; count outloud Ta-ta-ta Ta-ta-ta Ta-ta-ta Ta-ta-ta. Remember to accent strong beats to maintain a steady pulse. The rap-part in the second verse doesn't use the swing so I notated it in 4/4 time.

Notice several duplets: they are the words where IU forgot to swing.

The composition is interesting because we can say that IU used a bridge or a drop instead of the second verse: the second verse uses a different from the first verse melody but the third verse uses the first verse's melody.

To keep listeners attention, the *chorus* of "홀씨 (Holssi)" was made to be the biggest part of the song. I colored it *blue* for your convenience: it is easier to learn a piece of music when you have a mental scheme of it. Play every part differently, as expressively as possible. If some notes are too difficult to play, omit them focusing on emotions instead of sightreading.

"홀씨" is composed in C Major but only uses the C dominant seventh chord (C7): it creates bright and hopeful mood in a boring-key song.

The underlying harmony lacks motion and is fundamentally static: there is no sense of harmonic progression, only a pedal tone on C with added intervals.

The aesthetic value of a melodic line is achieved through the use of nonconventional tonal behavior.

Remember that the notation system was not intended to represent the sound of modern pop music with its layered, computer-generated vocal, 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.

00:14 Verse I

01:21 Verse II

02:28 Instrumental

02:49 Verse III