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Get this song out of my head!

DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
edited October 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
I have a song. It is in my head. I do not what it is or where it came from. Help me to identify it so I can make it go away.

I even made a handy little map to help! Play the red numbers from 1-6 three times, and then play the blue from 1-6! That should be sufficient for an identification.

e: I should probably provide a link to the thing I used to make this image. Here you go.

pianomap.jpg

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    I don't know the song, but Yellow Submarine always helps me get songs out of my head.

  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Is there a site or something you can feed that info into to make a sound file? I can't put it together when I have to focus on pressing keys, and I'm not terribly musically inclined.

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    I'm not sure, Ceres. This is pretty much the most convenient way I could think to do it.

  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Not sure what speed you wanted it at, and trying to click on keys once at a time ends up with things sounding a bit disjointed anyway, but this is what I came up with, might help someone identify it for you.


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  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    Yeah, that's basically it. Minus the timing issues.

  • Raif SeveranceRaif Severance Registered User regular
    My search turned up either Leaving on a Jet Plane or Bleeding Love... I don't think those are it. Go to midomi.com if you've got a microphone hooked up and hum it.

  • Raif SeveranceRaif Severance Registered User regular
    Also, this is my go to song for getting others out of my head:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYkbTyHXwbs&ob=av3e

  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor Registered User regular
    Tried playing it on this thing I found: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/

    but it's either too off key, or I have no idea. Or I am terrible at playing keyboards.

    Not really an "or." I am terrible at keyboards.

  • wonderpugwonderpug Registered User regular
    Hum the Super Mario Bros. theme to yourself three times.

  • evanismynameevanismyname Registered User regular
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNhNCrX8o_M&feature=fvst

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  • saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    Kinda reminds me of Linkin Park - What I've Done.

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  • Indica1Indica1 Registered User regular
    Shit! Now it's stuck in my head too but I also don't know what it is. For anyone else, after the fifth note it speeds up.


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  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    DirtyDirtyVagrant wrote:
    Yeah, that's basically it. Minus the timing issues.

    do you know what kind of music it is?

    instrumental? with words? piano only?

  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    It sounds really familiar, but I dunno.. knowing what kind of music is would definitely help.

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    If you can also let us know what types in instruments might be playing the tune, that'd be helpful too.

  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    The tiny part of the song I remember is just a piano. It's supposed to sound kind of somber and vaguely haunting.

    It's definitely not the Super Mario bros theme. I'm pretty sure I've seen it in a movie somewhere. Or a documentary. I remember somebody dying I think. Perhaps in a hospital. And this song was playing. Very much an "oh well what can you do, we're all fucked" kind of moment.

    I wanna say you'd be playing this at around 68-72bpm.

  • HewnHewn Registered User regular
    Songs like this are a dime a dozen. Often custom made for the film and never released to soundtrack. Particularly if it's a documentary. You could be on a hunt you'll never find, unless you can name the film or you have somebody who can name the song from that midi.

    Is it a song that you know exists outside of said film?

    But here's my wild guess. Simply because it's a sad piano song and there's a death scene at a hospital bed.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZW4PCaxGS8

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  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited October 2011
    No.

    It is not even close to being that complex. It's more like the simple piano you'd hear as the backdrop for an R&B song or something.

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  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Ooookay, I *think* I might have an idea, and I think someone else will be able to find it faster than me, and I'm tired, so here goes.

    There was a song done to piano, and I believe the artist is Chinese. The video shows him playing the piano interspersed with clips of him and his girlfriend happy and making a life together, and then she starts to get sick and he becomes concerned. As time goes on you see more scenes of him visiting her in a hospital room as she gets weaker, and eventually she dies in that hospital bed (while she's watching him on TV playing the song dedicated to her at a concert, if memory serves, which it might not).

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
  • Inquisitor77Inquisitor77 2 x Penny Arcade Fight Club Champion A fixed point in space and timeRegistered User regular
    I think I know the tune in question, but unfortunately I don't know the name of the song. The piano melody is supposed to be the beginning of the song, right? The song I'm thinking of has the following rhythm:

    B----F#-G-F#-D-B----F#-G-F#-D-B

    Maybe that will help some folks figure out this song...

  • DrowsDrows Registered User regular
    I think I've got it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPzI4dpEcF8

  • DirtyDirtyVagrantDirtyDirtyVagrant Registered User regular
    edited October 2011
    Yup! That's the one!

    Coldplay huh? Really? I've never listened to them before.

    (Thank you!)

    e: Hmmm. I was pretty off on the notes I think. Not bad recall for being in my head though!

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  • Inquisitor77Inquisitor77 2 x Penny Arcade Fight Club Champion A fixed point in space and timeRegistered User regular
    Yeah, that's exactly the song I was thinking of. :)

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