The Unchallenged Queen of Music Idenitification

[nancyshane]

A couple days ago in the car, I heard this song that I know, and I knew I know, and everybody knows, because it has a very sticky saxophone solo that everyone knows.  But it's one of those songs no one knows the name of, or the artist who wrote it, or anything useful other than that damn saxophone line.

So tonight, I sang the saxophone line to my

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Other ways to find music

[tewner]

Unlike text searches where google will find pretty much anything ("where was 'to be or not to be" from?") it's harder to create a syntax (semantic?) for searching for a musical phrase, especially for non-musicians.

Enter musipedia.org . They offer a bunch of ways to search for a melody - the most intuitive being the "contour search".

Contour searching uses "Parson's code" to describe a melody. The first musical note is transcribed as "*". Then you append a "U" if the next note in the melody is higher ("UP"), "D" ("Down") if it's lower. "R" if it the note repeats.

While I'm not familiar with the song that was stuck in your head, I see that it's in the musipedia database. They had 2 entries:
*UDDDUDUDDDDRUDDDR
and
*DDRRDURRUDUDDRRRRRRRUDDURRRRDD

I'll leave it as an excersize to the reader to edentify which riff y'all were talking about.

Re: Other ways to find music

[nancyshane]

AMAZING!