But, at least now you can do the hand motions! Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I actually sometimes write music in my head, completely unintentionally. I find myself mentally humming some melody or another and then realize that it isn't from any song I know. Then I try to remember it and usually fail.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Twinky: You should write it down! Eventually, you could create a magnum opus and call it the Hatrack Suite (or something)!
[ April 11, 2005, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Megan ]
Posted by no. 6 (Member # 7753) on :
I get stuck on Twink's music sometimes.
But right now, I'm stuck on my own.... Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
It's entirely my own fault, but I've had the Hindi music I reviewed in this thread stuck in my head for a week now. It's pretty bad.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Manah Manah!
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
quote:Twinky: You should write it down!
I can't, I don't have perfect pitch. Yet.
*determined
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Not having perfect pitch is no excuse! All you need is good relative pitch, and a pitch reference (like a piano). Pitch problem solved.
I don't have perfect pitch either, but it's quite possible to transcribe stuff without it.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
You don't even need a piano if you have a good transcription program on your computer.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
There is also the problem of rhythm...
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I know what you mean about the rhythm. Even if I have the notes in my head, and can transcribe them it's very hard to figure out what the time signature etc is!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
That's what the good transcription software is for. Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
quote:good transcription software
No such thing.
Rhythmic transcription isn't necessarily a piece of cake, but it's doable (it's part of what I teach on a daily basis). Basically, for time signature, all you have to do is decide, "Is it 2, 3, or 4?" Once that's done, decide whether each beat is divided into two or three.
Of course, if you're doing something wacky like 5 or 7, then you run into trouble. Otherwise, though, it's a relatively straightforward affair.
The other thing you can do is skip the meter altogether for starters and worry about the rhythm (i.e., JUST the individual beats). Then, once you've got that down, determine the meter from there.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
I'm not sure how--but I think the concise answer is that the Deutsche Volk are weird. Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
The song that is usually stuck in my head is Popcorn.
dododododo do do... dododododo do do...
Posted by Achilles (Member # 7741) on :
If you do something in 5 or 7, be sure to set up the program you are using to set the measures at these intervals.
I usually play in common time until the time comes back around to match the measures (usually about four repetitions).
But then, I usually don't do much odd-time.
From The King Crimson Barbershop Quartet
quote: So come on and have some fun, And tap your foot in twenty-one....
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
The soundtrack to my life is always playing through my head. Sometimes it's upbeat. Unfortunately this time it isn't.
Oingo Boingo's Is This Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Jhai, that's incredibly adorable... That kid actually has very good pitch and decent tone, for a little one. Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
quote:I actually sometimes write music in my head, completely unintentionally. I find myself mentally humming some melody or another and then realize that it isn't from any song I know. Then I try to remember it and usually fail.
twinky, I feel your pain. That happens to me too, but not so much as it used to. Sometimes I was lucky enough to be by my piano keyboard so I can record the song... but that's very rare. Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Jhai, is Schanappi the little Crocodile a German cartoon or are they all completely insane?
Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :
Why does every little kid toy play The Wheels on the Bus"? I am starting to dream that darn song! I wish little ones liked nice quiet toys. Even my babies bouncy chair plays classical music but it's not good classical, it's all hooked on classics renditions that sound weird. Like they are being played by that alien band in the cantina on Tatooine. Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
Can I hear a hallelujah? Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
The Schnappi phenomena started on the internet—some nice lady wrote a song for her niece, Joy, who is the 9-year-old you hear singing. A DJ in Hamburg found it and put it on the air last December, and the rest is, as they say, history. A flash animation was developed, a CD of “Schnappi and Friends”, and a site full of merchandise.
(Apparently the craziness has spread; the song hit number one in the other German-speaking countries [Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, and Lichtenstein], Belgium, and Holland. [All hail Schnappi ] It also has a following in France, Great Britain, and Japan.)
All I know is that after I heard it, I had “Schni, Schna, Schnappi, Schnappi, Schnappi, Schnapp” running through my head the entire day.
edited to clear up comma confusion
[ April 11, 2005, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: Jhai ]
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
*sings*
Schnappi das klines crocodile
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Tater. It took me five freaking weeks to get that out of my head the last time. It is now back in. I am afraid to even click the second link.
I'm going to have to come after you and beat you with a salmon now. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, but not if my husband gets there first.
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
quote:the other German-speaking countries, Belgium, and Holland.
Dutch isn't exactly Deutsch.
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
Sorry..
Maybe the second one will get stuck in your head. They're equally stuck in mine.
You never know until you try..
[ April 11, 2005, 10:03 PM: Message edited by: Tater ]
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
I heard about Schanappi the little Crocodile on the radio the other day. Apparently the little girl, Joy, made up the song, her parents recorded it and put it on the internet. A radio station started playing it, it released on record and now it's the #1 song in Germany. They even have a techno remix of it.
edit.. ah, I'm too slow, but I think the song is very cute.
[ April 11, 2005, 10:09 PM: Message edited by: Coccinelle ]
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
And then there's always..
"I will never ever ever write a song about the Sibbie.." *sings*
So, anymore clickers of my links? Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Speaking of which, I heard there's a new strong bad e-mail...
(does anyone know if the little girl is getting money from her hit song?)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
From what I could gather on the "Schnappi-Forum" (on the offical Schanppi site), the family is indeed recieving money from the song. They've also released an albumn sung by Joy...
Some people on the forum were worried that the family was using the girl, but others claimed that she found it all very fun. I'd quote, but it's all in German, and very slang-y German at that.
My German professor was in Germany in January, and says that that Joy and her Aunt were doing the talk-show circuit as well... And that MTV Germany was showing it very often.
Edited for verb tensing
[ April 11, 2005, 10:33 PM: Message edited by: Jhai ]
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
rivka!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
What? After hearing that song a couple times, I'd like to shoot the darn thing.
Except to do so, I'd have to listen to the song again! Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
lol
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Okay, I'm actually a fan of bluegrass, Bill Monroe, and "I Saw the Light". Also, those squirrels are cute. So, thanks for making me watch the second one; now the good version of the song is in my head, instead. Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
No problem, glad you liked it.
So, this means I get to remain salmon free, right? Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
No, it means I will hurt you for putting Dragostea Din Tei in my head. I was willing to defer to kq, but now . . .
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
I don't suppose there are any links to the Schnappi song that aren't video, are there?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Been reading too much German, have you? I always remember what Sherlock Holmes said about the Germans and verbs in "A Scandal in Bohemia". (Warning: the link I posted may be a little irritating to read, although the text seems almost all correct. It's just the way it takes up half the page and the spacing and such.)
[ April 12, 2005, 01:12 AM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Numa Numa has been replaced by Mahna Mahna in my house. Cayla has been going around singing Mahna Mahna ... and asking me for help when she can't remember how it goes! Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
And upon seeing this thread again, I have Zombie in my head.
In your head, in your heeeeeead, Zombie, zombie, zombie-e-e..
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
Thanks, Rivka!
My Mother will never forgive me for the music with which I'm indoctrinating my little siblings. It's almost as bad as the time I brought them a Jordy album.
Posted by Lucky4 (Member # 1420) on :
I have hatrack dot com as my bookmark (rather than going directly to the forum). Everytime I open it, my mind hears:
"People...people posing as people...are the luckiest people in the world..."
(Barbara Streisand from Funny Girl)
It stays there. All. Day. With the wrong words! Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I've got the hiphop version of "Mr. Lonely" in my head right now. My gym is making me cultivate a taste for hip hop. *shakes fist*
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I love the viking kittens!
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
When I saw a total solar eclipse, I heard music in my head. I'm not very musical so I can't really describe it well, but it was freaking beautiful. Sort of like a sustained chord of pure tones in perfect harmony, with some slow, minor variations or trilling. Like a synthesizer makes, kind of, but with a clarity and purity I haven't heard before or since. It reminded me of some Robert Fripp and Brian Eno songs.
One of the most numinous days in my life.
[ April 13, 2005, 06:06 AM: Message edited by: Morbo ]
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Morbo, you know that that was the aliens trying to contact you right?
Posted by mimsies (Member # 7418) on :
URGH!
I got the Numa Numa Dance stuck in my head, but having it cut off early drove me nuts, so I found it on i-tunes and bought an album with a few different versions.
*sigh*
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
>_<
Now Schnappi is stuck in my head, popping up every so often without warning.
I hate you all.
[ April 14, 2005, 02:59 AM: Message edited by: rivka ]
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Dance your cares away, worries for another day...
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Down in Fraggle Rock!
Work your cares away! Dancing's for another day, Let the Fraggles play, We're Gobo, Mokey, Boober, Wembley, Red (whoopeeee!)
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
rivka
I shared it with one of my friends and it is now his favorite song! hehe
Though I do know what you mean; I randomly started singing it in math today...
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
I have the third movement of Cantata 140 in my head, even though I'm listening to the flute, clarinet & timpany bit in the William Tell overture.
JH
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"Don't Go Breakin' My Heart..."
I would like this song OUT of my head now, please!
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
I won't go breakin' your heart!
This morning, my sister had on classic rock in the car, which is mostly OK, except the particular song that came on was "Feel Like Makin' Love" by Bad Company, one of my Least Favorite and Most Likely to Become Lodged in My Head songs of all time. It's totally obscene. Not because making love is obscene, but because guys from 80s rock bands with scratchy voices who feel like making love are obscene.
Ick! Now it's back!
*cranks up Dean Martin*
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
I've had The Gnu Song, as sung by John Lithgow, stuck in my head since I got up this morning. Brilliant song. I'm going to have to teach myself to play the piano accompaniment (since I can't find any sheet music), and work up an act for any potential future talent show.
Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
You know that all too famous Mozart serenade?
"La, la la...la la la la la la...."
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
You mean "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"?
Posted by starlooker (Member # 7495) on :
For some reason, and I truly do not know why, I've had "Maggie May" by Rod Stewart running around in my head all day long. I didn't even think I knew that song. It's not a song I like or dislike, but it's just picked up and I can't get it out. I haven't even heard it on the radio recently.
Sometimes I really wonder what goes on in the back of my mind.
By the by, my best friend says that a trick she learned in her sorority was that, to get ANY song out of your head, start singing "Build me up, Buttercup." It'll drive anything else out of your head. Although, for the time being, I think I prefer Maggie May.
[ April 15, 2005, 01:05 AM: Message edited by: starlooker ]
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
By the way, that "Schnappi" song is too cute. And by "too cute", I mean that it's like having a spear of pure cuteness driven into your eye until it pierces your brain, then sent all the way through the brain until it penetrates the cranium in the back of your head, emerging, bloodied, through your flesh and back out into the open air, causing you to fall down dead. That's how cute it is.
[ April 15, 2005, 10:49 AM: Message edited by: Verily the Younger ]
Posted by mimsies (Member # 7418) on :
Numa Numa Yay Numa Numa Numa Yay
AAAAAARGH!
I'm seriously considering hunting Tater down and torturing him, maybe forcing him to listen to "The Wheels On the Bus" over and over and over and over...
Whew, Grandma's Feather Bed is coming on, maybe that'll help
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
quote: "La, la la...la la la la la la...."
That's supposed to be Einer Kleiner Nachtsmusik? Nice spotting, Verily!
A curse on that. At least the third movement of Symphony No 40 is nice. As for the Violin Concerti - none beats Bach. Actually, no-one beats Bach, except for Biber, maybe.
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