a ‘Song Prep: “Liquified ‘The key center, or tonal center, of this song is C, That is, the note C functions as “home base’ and all other notes can be seen to gravitate back to this fundamental starting point. Also, this tune uses a modern hip-hop shuffle groove. A shuffle means that the beat is subdi- vided differently than it is in common 4/4 time. Whereas eighth notes normally subdivide the beat into halves exactly at the midpoint (“one...and...two...and...three...and...four,..and’), shuttle rhythms are based on a triplet figure("one...and...uh...two...and...uh...three, and...uh...four...and...uh"). Tie the first two notes of each triplet, letting them ring as one, and the shuffle rhythm emerges: TTI IT As a practical matter, this moves the upbeat back in time to the last third of the beat. It is gen- erally written as straight eighth notes with the added “shutfle :,—., .)" indication at the start, because this looks much cleaner and less complex on the page than loads of triplet figures, LIQUIFIED 6° DS.al Fine (nit repeat i ae ut 2nd Teme Liduitied 9