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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Jhai, that's incredibly adorable... That kid actually has very good pitch and decent tone, for a little one. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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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. Posts: 1417 | Registered: Aug 1999
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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. Posts: 601 | Registered: Sep 2002
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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No, it means I will hurt you for putting Dragostea Din Tei in my head. I was willing to defer to kq, but now . . .
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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.)
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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! Posts: 2034 | Registered: Apr 2004
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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.
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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*
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