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How many notes

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Day[9]
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
United States7366 Posts
October 13 2008 21:29 GMT
#1
are in a piano song?

any examples you can think of? this is a question regarding my current research, but i can't really seem to find any number estimates anywhere on the web.

i know it varies based on the style/artist/etc blah. but i haven't even found a single piece that says "this piece contains XXXX# of notes"

boo

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also, same goes for other instruments. how many times you strike a drum in a drum piece, strum a string on guitar/bass etc.

i just want NUMBERS people

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Gaetele
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Esper760 Posts
October 13 2008 21:31 GMT
#2
uh why

this seems like a weird question to ask

and it'd be a pain to calculate

are chords one note or multiple notes
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24698 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-13 21:48:44
October 13 2008 21:32 GMT
#3
It varies like... several orders of magnitude... depending on the type of song. It would kinda suck, but can't you count some sheet music or use noteworthy composer or some song software to try to use another method for counting?

It might be good to see how many beats there are per measure, then multiply by measures/page and pages
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yubee
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States3826 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-13 21:41:24
October 13 2008 21:33 GMT
#4
edit: oh this is a weird question yeah, you'll probably have to count by hand. if you pick a single piece like mary had a little lamb that one's not hard, but the only way you'd be able to calculate is if, say a drum beat remains constant, and there are 2 kicks, 3 snares, and 8 hi hats in every measure, you can take that and calculate by how many measures there are
man
Profile Joined November 2005
United States272 Posts
October 13 2008 21:37 GMT
#5
Sheet music doesn't say how many notes are in the piece because it isn't relevant info for the musician. You're going to have to count.
HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
October 13 2008 21:59 GMT
#6
abcdefg ... assuming there are no sharps and flats... and if there was a sharp or flat the natural note wouldn't be played...
and assuming you don't count notes of other higher/lower octaves... every song has 7 notes
theoretically speaking
im only answering because your mom is awesome
you're mean though

i just want NUMBERS people

i mean come on, that's horrible form from a 5k> poster =/
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overpool
Profile Joined April 2008
United States191 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-13 23:13:30
October 13 2008 22:00 GMT
#7
It might be possible to count the number of notes if you can find a .midi file. I'll edit this post if I can find out a good way.


EDIT: ok, I got something working using this ruby gem to read midi files (look at examples/seq2text.rb in the source), but I'm too lazy to do more. Have fun/PM me if you want more help.
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azndsh
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4447 Posts
October 13 2008 22:03 GMT
#8
It's not too hard to estimate, but again it depends on how you count chords and trills, etc.

A typical 8-minute classical piece has maybe 5-10 notes per second, so around 2000-5000 would be a very ballpark estimate.
HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
October 13 2008 22:06 GMT
#9
Your question also begs the question
Why?
Would help us a lot in clarifying your exigency behind it all =/
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Kwidowmaker
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada978 Posts
October 13 2008 22:11 GMT
#10
There are a few things you'll have to decide if you want an exact count. First, are chords one note or more? Also, do slurred notes count as one, or each of the notes played? Similarly, if it's a guitar piece, are bends one or more notes?
Kk.
Luddite
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2315 Posts
October 13 2008 22:54 GMT
#11
Well there's the "one note samba"...
Can't believe I'm still here playing this same game
memmypoker
Profile Joined May 2008
119 Posts
October 13 2008 23:02 GMT
#12
bossa nova :D no thre is 135 notes
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24698 Posts
October 13 2008 23:16 GMT
#13
On October 14 2008 07:06 HeavOnEarth wrote:
Your question also begs the question
Why?
Would help us a lot in clarifying your exigency behind it all =/

I finally take that out of my sig after over a year, and NOW someone mentions it rofl.
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esla_sol
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States756 Posts
October 13 2008 23:22 GMT
#14
ok it had to be done

over 9000
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
October 13 2008 23:27 GMT
#15
On October 14 2008 08:22 esla_sol wrote:
ok it had to be done

over 9000

i am going to be quite dissapointed if people get away with this and when i did it it was like a half-meme and i got a 1 week ban -_-
oh wells. to OP: tbh i dont know srry.
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Profile Blog Joined September 2007
3788 Posts
October 13 2008 23:50 GMT
#16
there's this saxophone piece "caprice" by eugene bozza and i counted it has about 700 notes, and the duration is under a minute

but that's a really extreme case
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skyglow1
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
New Zealand3962 Posts
October 14 2008 00:45 GMT
#17
I'm pretty sure that Moonlight Sonata movement 3 has about 9500 notes in it.
BlackStar
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Netherlands3029 Posts
October 14 2008 00:51 GMT
#18
Damn, I wish I knew how many notes there are in Opus Clavicembalisticum.
HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
October 14 2008 01:47 GMT
#19
On October 14 2008 08:27 Grobyc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2008 08:22 esla_sol wrote:
ok it had to be done

over 9000

i am going to be quite dissapointed if people get away with this and when i did it it was like a half-meme and i got a 1 week ban -_-
oh wells. to OP: tbh i dont know srry.


you probably just owned the poor guy
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inlagdsil
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada957 Posts
October 14 2008 01:53 GMT
#20
Count the number in 1/8 of the song and multiply by 8
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