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Holy crap! "Brahms - Piano trio No 1 in B major" FINALLY. That's been more than half a year in my head, and me failing to figure out how to search for it.
by loxias 3y ago
Holy crap! "Brahms - Piano trio No 1 in B major" FINALLY. That's been more than half a year in my head, and me failing to figure out how to search for it.
Proud of myself I nailed the key. Does this song have some romance story behind it? Probably just my brain confusing nearby neurons.
Extraordinarily frustrating that it needs a mobile device (as opposed to, say, even Chrome only).
Still, thanks internet. Now I'm back to a 100% success ratio (lifetime) of "if I get a song stuck in my head I will dig until I know its name".
- bobbiechen 3y agoFor a lot of classical music, you can get very good results just using the Parsons code (sometimes called melodic contour): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code Worth a shot if hum to search doesn't work!
- loxias 3y agoThanks for this! I'm... embarrassed not to have heard of this before. Sure enough, I typed "*UUUUDDDDUDRUUUUDDDUDDDUDD" into musipedia.org and BOOM. Result!
- rjh29 3y agoPeople who aren't pitch perfect will rarely sing a song it its original key, so Google likely handle that.
- NobodyNada 3y agoWhile I imagine Google probably does handle transpositions, people do tend to remember the pitch of a song, even if they don't have perfect pitch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch#Pitch_memory_related_to_musical_context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch#Pitch_memory_re... > While very few people have the ability to name a pitch with no external reference, pitch memory can be activated by repeated exposure. People who are not skilled singers will often sing popular songs in the correct key, and can usually recognize when TV themes have been shifted into the wrong key.