Last Updated or created 2024-03-01
Google-Fu : (informal) Skill in using search engines (especially Google) to quickly find useful information on the Internet.
I was thinking of a famous piece of music, but what was it?
Whistling it, while using Shazam or Tunepal, didn’t work.
So I googled “well known classical part repeats sped up and transposes”
The second link was a Reddit link named : “Need help finding a song that starts very slow and builds to be frantic!”
First YT link in there: In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt) by Edvard Grieg
Epic tune!
“In the Hall of the Mountain King” is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg in 1875 as incidental music for the sixth scene of act 2 in Henrik Ibsen’s 1867 play Peer Gynt. It was originally part of Opus 23 but was later extracted as the final piece of Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46.
I’ve used Tunepal many times, it’s great for folkies!
Sometimes it works also on classical pieces, because they were arranged into folk music.
I bought the Android app, because I liked it so much.
Tunepal is a search-by-playing search engine for traditional Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Breton, American marching band and Canadian tunes.
By playing a 12-second extract from a traditional tune on an instrument such as the flute or fiddle, you can:
- Retrieve score matches from a database of over 24,000 music scores
- View and playback, share and download the score
- Find and play other recordings of the tune from a collection of over 30 million recordings
Tunepal is a search-by-playing search engine for traditional Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Breton, American marching band and Canadian tunes.
On the Record page, click the Tunepal logo or tap the screen if your computer has a touch screen. Start playing straight away. Don’t wait for the countdown to complete. Tunepal works best if there is no silence at the start of the recording.
Tunepal works best with “legato” style instruments such as the tin-whistle, flute, concertina, accordion, pipes and fiddle. It doesn’t work very well with “plucked string” instruments such as the banjo and harp.
To find a tune using Tunepal, first make sure you have a PC microphone connected to your computer or use the phone app
If your instrument uses a different “fundamental note” to the usual D (for example you are playing a C flute) or you are playing a tune in an unusual key, then you can adjust the transcription algorithm by choosing a different “fundamental” from the settings page.
You can filter the search results from the settings page to limit searches to certain tunebooks or time signatures.
