I need to figure out what notes are used in a piece of music. Although
the song is quite complicated, basically I'm looking for the right
series and notes and rests to get it to play on a cell phone as a ring
tone.

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Request for Question Clarification by markj-ga on 04 May 2005 16:04 PDT

clearhill -

Can you identify the song and the portion of it that you want notated
(such as "the first 16 notes of song X)"?

markj-ga

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Clarification of Question by clearhill-ga on 05 May 2005 09:16 PDT

Please see file here:
http://www.geocities.com/ga_musicsample/newsopen2.mp3

I'm looking for pretty much the whole thing

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Clarification of Question by clearhill-ga on 07 May 2005 11:20 PDT

I'm only looking for a simple rendition of this to use on a phone that
CAN'T use the polyphonic ring tones.

does your phone only allow one note at a time, or can you play several
notes at once (i.e. to form a chord?)  I can help you either way.

Hi,
When I stumbled across this question, I listened to the song and knew
I could easily transcribe the main melody of the song for you.
However, I've never programmed a ringtone before (or written out the
notation before) and I don't know what type of phone you're using,
which is important since the notation varies by phone brand. I looked
up notations, and found a fairly commonly used one for Nokia phones,
which appears to be as follows:

notes:
[duration] [optional sharp sign (#), no flats allowed] [note] [octave (1-3)]
e.g. 4#d2  =  D# (D sharp) in the 2nd octave, held for a quarter note

rests:
[duration] [minus sign (-)]
e.g.  16-  =  a sixteenth-note rest

As I said, I've never programmed a ringtone before, and I may have the
notation wrong, but here goes my attempt anyway based on my
assumptions and my choice of notation as described above:

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Beats per minute: 130 

(timpani intro)
8F2 16F2 16F2 16F2 16F2

(brass)
8#a2 8- 8#a2 8- 8c3 8- 8c3 8- 8#c3 16- 16#c3 8- 8d#3 8- 
16c3 16- 16#c3 16- 16#d3 16- 8f3 8- 2f3 4- 16#g3 8#g3 16#g3 8#g3 2#g3 8-

(funky bass solo - basically copying the "Mission Impossible" theme)
8#a1 8#a1 8- 8#a1 16- 16#a1 8#a1 8f1 8#g1
8#a1 8#a1 8- 8#a1 16- 16#a1 8#a1 8#c2 8#d2
8#a1 8#a1 8- 8#a1 16- 16#a1 8#a1 8f1 8#g1

(brass again)
4#c3 8- 4#d3 16c3 16- 16#c3 16- 16#d3 16- 1f3

(ascending line and ending)
4f1 4#a1 4#d2 4#g2 4#c3 4#f3 8b3 8- 16b3 16b3 16b3 16b3 16#a3


If your phone notation is different, hopefully you can figure out how
to convert the above to what you need. If anything doesn't sound
right, let me know... I may have messed up since I had no way of
testing this out. Hope it works out for you!