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Earendil18
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I'm trying to find this very famous/popular/classic song. I've heard it several times on the radio, but they've never actually announced the title. It sounds kinda disco, but more groove or R&B. Moderate tempo, around 102-104.

It has one of those one-note "wynamp wynamp" quitar riffs throughout the song, and after the melody, it just goes back to this "wynamp" + bass.

The main melody is played by 2+ saxophones, and is backed up by trumpet/trombone section for key hits.

The melody is all in one octave span except for this first F note, which is one octave lower:
F, C, G, F, Eb, D, C, HighBb, F, Ab, F, Eb, F, Ab, F, Eb, F

-- are for longer holds.
No spaces are tuplets
Commas are brief rests.

Melody is patterned as follows:
FCGF, E, DC, HighBb, FAb--, F, EbF, Ab--, F, EbF.

Enough info? I know it's a big name, I just don't know the name or who did it. [Big Grin]

For your convenience here's an online metronome and piano. (Requires Java)

http://www.metronomeonline.com/
http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/javapiano/javapiano.htm

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SteveRogers
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You didn't catch any of the lyrics, huh?
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Nighthawk
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I don't understand a word of what you're saying.

With lyrics - even so much as a single line of lyrics - you can find it near instantly, though.

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Goody Scrivener
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A lot of radio stations have play logs available on their websites. If you know roughly when it was broadcast, try looking at their site to narrow it down. My station also makes clips available as previews for MP3 purchases.
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Tstorm
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One of the lessons I'm always re-learning in life is that the people of Hatrack speak many languages. I usually don't think about music in these terms, that's for sure. [Smile]
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Lisa
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Well, I tried putting that into Finale and playing it, but I didn't get anything really familiar. It sounded a little like Phil Collin's "That's All", but not really. And that's not a sax thing. Is the song an instrumental, or are there words?

Also, if you have access to a virtual keyboard, can you save a MIDI and upload it for us to hear? To be honest, I didn't entirely get the pseudo-notation you used.

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Earendil18
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Steve> No, it's instrumental.

Nighthawk> Instrumental! [Smile]

Goody> Good idea.

Tstorm> Neither do I, but I don't have Finale or any notation software.

Lisa> It's instrumental, definitely not Phil Collins. It's maddening knowing the entire song musically, but not having a proper way of describing it. [Smile] I will try and come up with a MIDI.

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Sean Monahan
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It's Pick up the Pieces - Average White Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfAJLGFWxYo

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ketchupqueen
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quote:
Neither do I, but I don't have Finale or any notation software.

Finale NotePad. Basic, but free.
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TomDavidson
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My reaction to instrumental pieces is to immediately stop listening, so I was of no help here.
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Kwea
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Another option is to record it using Audacity (or some other free recorder) and post it on a page. If people can HEAR what you know is the song they MAY be able to identify it. [Big Grin]
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erosomniac
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quote:
Originally posted by Sean Monahan:
It's Pick up the Pieces - Average White Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfAJLGFWxYo

I find it amazing that I tried for a while to decipher the original post (and I do have Finale), and couldn't do it - and you linked that and I immediately went "OH JEEZ, YES, THAT ONE."

Freakin' good job there.

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Earendil18
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Thanks Sean! That's it! I was trying to get Fruity Loops to sequence that timing, but it just can't do anything other than techno.

And thanks to everyone who jumped in. [Razz]

Kwea> Yeah, I was just about to use the flash piano and record the sound through the sound card. [Smile]

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TomDavidson
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If I were looking for that song, I'd have described it this way:

It's got '70s bass and consists basically of a repeated sax line:

Deedle de dee,
dih de dee,
deedle de deeeeh de dadum,
deeeeh de dadum.

Deedle deedle dum,
deedle deedle dum!
Deedle deedle dum,
deedle deedle dum!
Deedle deedle dum,
deedle deedle waaaah!

[Smile]

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Lisa
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Uh, huh...
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lobo
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Guys in kilts frighten me a bit...
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Goody Scrivener
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And I'd have almost gotten it from Tom's description. I'd have known the song and probably the artist but wouldn't have come up with the name.
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Sean Monahan
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Glad to help, earendil. I have Finale too, but I didn't use it. I tried that flash piano, but you can only click the notes so fast on it, so I played it on a real piano. The melody had to ruminate in my brain for a couple hours before it clicked, and I thought "Oh! That song!" But like you, I didn't know the title or the artist. I did a google search for "instrumentals 70's", and the 4th or 5th result was a CD for sale at CD Universe that had audio samples, and I just clicked down the audio samples until I found it on track 11.
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quote:
Originally posted by TomDavidson:
If I were looking for that song, I'd have described it this way:

It's got '70s bass and consists basically of a repeated sax line:

Deedle de dee,
dih de dee,
deedle de deeeeh de dadum,
deeeeh de dadum.

Deedle deedle dum,
deedle deedle dum!
Deedle deedle dum,
deedle deedle dum!
Deedle deedle dum,
deedle deedle waaaah!

[Smile]

Someone was never in a college a cappella group. The "ee" sound is a no no!
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