Do you repeat the same song?
 

I just want to know, what do you think about repeating the same song again and again and again.. I do it every night.. Do you do such a thing ? I've been listening all the day to No Leaf Clover - Metallica

If I want to learn a song or piece I will play it over and over again or if
I like it.
judy tooley

To decide whether a song I like after the first few times I hear it, is good enough for my website of best pop and rock songs, I usually play the song at least five times in a row.

Yes, there are few songs that I could listen to everyday, few times in a row.. And besides that, when I have to write down some piece of music (usually jazz/ sometimes pop songs for my friends) then it takes a lot of repaeting, depending on how much the song is complicated.

yes, I do that quite a lot, for different reasons.

Mat http://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ies/tiphat.gif, another chapter to be included in your book of talents. Quote from your post:

"And besides that, when I have to write down some piece of music (usually jazz/ sometimes pop songs for my friends) then it takes a lot of repaeting, depending on how much the song is complicated".

Composer of jazz and pop songs for your friends, Wow Mat - Incredible http://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ies/tiphat.gifhttp://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ilies/clap.gifhttp://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ilies/wave.gif

No, no. Composer is far to big word to describe me. What I meant was I write down jazz/pop songs only after I hear 'em. Nothing more. Hey, but still. That is not an easy task. At least it's very time-consuminghttp://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ilies/grin.gifhttp://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ilies/grin.gif.

Mat. http://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ies/tiphat.gif

So what you´re saying is, you don´t compose jazz nor pop songs, but write the songs down from the lyrics and the notes you can determine being played, when you hear it. Perhaps also because your english may be far better than the english spoken or read by your friends???

Intet, I will explain it to you via Private Message, ok?

Funny - I sometimes get a song stuck in my head. Quite often I go to sleep and the wretched thing's still playing in the morning ... grrrrrrrr

This phenomena of a song get stuck in my head made me make a full website, so I somehow throw this song out of my head http://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...lies/laugh.gif Song of the day http://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...lies/laugh.gif

Ok, Mat, even if it has nothing to do with the composing, still pretty cool!

That is, do you have an absolute ear? That's great. I can write down the score from hearing too, but I would always need a keyboard for it, because I am not sure whether I made a mistake or not. Which means, I can correctly identify the chord progressions, intervals etc., but I can never exactly say, what key is this.

Cool if you can - it actually means, you are able to write down a score, sitting in a train or on a beach - all you need for it is a pen and a sheet of paper. Right?

I do that a lot..... unfortunetly I start getting tired of songs I really like, so I have to take a brake from them once in a while.
When I have heard a song 2 times, I can all the words. In a way thats a good thing, in another way is it quite anoying.

By the way - I think there should be 5 years when no one is allowed to write new songs, then we could have time to listen to old songs - there are SOOOOOOO many.... Hmmm maybe I´m the only one who think thats a good idea?!

http://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...lies/laugh.gif Christine

Yes Andrew, I have an absolute/prefect pitch. Well, when I need to wirte something down I usually use piano to help myselfhttp://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ilies/wink.png. I can identify a chord or intervals or whatever, without a piano, so yes - that's pretty coolhttp://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ilies/cool.png. I have never written anything down on a beach but this might be funhttp://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ilies/grin.gif.


Cheers,
Mat

Hi Christine, it's nice to see you on the English side of this illustrious website!

Mat you say you have absolute/perfect pitch, in which case you shouldn't need to use a piano when composing (I too have perfect pitch). My local trains' (the Tangaras) horns are a very slightly flat E-flat, quite annoying.

Haha thank you. As long as you all understand my english.... if not then please correct me!

They call it both perfect and absolute. Don't know which form to choosehttp://www.magle.dk/music-forums/ima...ilies/wink.png. Yeah. Well Contra, I don't need to use piano while composing/writing something down. I can manage without it as well. But it is so much easier this way, isn't it? And tell me about those daily noises. My vacuum cleaner is "tuned" in a little bit too high E. One more quarter tone and it would be F. LOL

Christine, typically of most Danes, your English is excellent.

Composing at the piano isn't the way I work, but that's personal. I do, however, use a MIDI keyboard and use that for playback purposes ... more for correcting wrong notes and proofing my scores than anything else.