KVR Audio

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:36 pm

classic tv themes extreme covers 10-12:

http://rachmiel.org/kvr/mystery_cover_10.mp3
http://rachmiel.org/kvr/mystery_cover_11.mp3
http://rachmiel.org/kvr/mystery_cover_12.mp3

one's easy(ish) to identify, the other two ... ?

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:44 pm

1) Mission Impossible

Still listening to the others!

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:48 pm

rack 'em! MI is correct, well done. :-)

out of curiosity, how long into the piece were you when you AHA'd Mission Impossible? i'm wondering if that opening one second long "fuse" trill/tremolo is enough to get it.

hersoot · Post by **hersoot** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:09 pm

For mp3 #2: at 6, 14 and 25 seconds I clearly recognize the theme but just can't place it. It's on the tip of my pointed brain.

Bronto Scorpio · Post by **Bronto Scorpio** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:23 pm

Awesome!
The second MP3 drives me crazy. I know what it is but I just don't know what it is

First I thought it would be "Die Sendung mit der Maus"

The third mp3 reminds me of the Simpsons but I guess it is something else.

Cheers
Dennis

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:32 pm

hersoot, it'll come. ;-)

bronto, it IS simpsons (#3). nicely heard. :-)

as for #2, as hersoot says, fairly clear excerpts from the main theme appear here 'n there, but they go by quickly and are often quite skewed.

hersoot · Post by **hersoot** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:33 pm

I finally remembered! #2 is I Dream of Jeanie.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:39 pm

bin-go! :-)

thanks, everyone, for listening to my little cover puzzles. i had great fun composing them, and i really enjoyed watching the process of your getting them.

next: i'm going to make very short (10 seconds?) extreme-cover excerpts from very well-known pop tunes. my goal is to see how little -- in duration and pitch/rhythmic clarity -- one needs to recognize them.

Loki Fuego · Post by **Loki Fuego** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:16 am

rachmiel wrote:next: i'm going to make very short (10 seconds?) extreme-cover excerpts from very well-known pop tunes. my goal is to see how little -- in duration and pitch/rhythmic clarity -- one needs to recognize them.

In Russia there's a TV show called 'Guess A Melody'. The goal is guess a melody based on the first notes played on a piano. They usually start with seven notes which is pretty easy to guess. But in the end they raise stakes and some people guess a melody based only on the first three notes.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:57 pm

rachmiel wrote:rack 'em! MI is correct, well done.

out of curiosity, how long into the piece were you when you AHA'd Mission Impossible? i'm wondering if that opening one second long "fuse" trill/tremolo is enough to get it.

That first second was a big pointer. By 5 seconds I suspected MI. I had the answer by about 20 seconds, but there were so many clues in there that I would have had to have missed '70s TV entirely not to get this right. I think this was one of the easier pieces in the series.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:50 pm

Loki Fuego wrote:
rachmiel wrote:next: i'm going to make very short (10 seconds?) extreme-cover excerpts from very well-known pop tunes. my goal is to see how little -- in duration and pitch/rhythmic clarity -- one needs to recognize them.
In Russia there's a TV show called 'Guess A Melody'. The goal is guess a melody based on the first notes played on a piano. They usually start with seven notes which is pretty easy to guess. But in the end they raise stakes and some people guess a melody based only on the first three notes.

nice! :-)

also fun is to try to get a melody by hearing the rhythm only.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:47 pm

rachmiel wrote:rack 'em! MI is correct, well done.

out of curiosity, how long into the piece were you when you AHA'd Mission Impossible? i'm wondering if that opening one second long "fuse" trill/tremolo is enough to get it.

ah, yeah.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:09 am

that would also be an interesting puzzle/game:

find the shortest bit of a song that makes that song recognizable (to a good listener who knows the song well).

i bet a half second could do it for some songs. maybe less ... ? :-)

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:36 am

Is #2 'Bewitched'?

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:40 am

herodotus wrote:Is #2 'Bewitched'?

Oops, I didn't realize that it had already been guessed. I always did mix those two shows up. Hot magical chicks with husbands that had sticks up their asses...

season finale