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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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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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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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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
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Your question also begs the question Why? Would help us a lot in clarifying your exigency behind it all =/
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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?
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Well there's the "one note samba"...
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bossa nova :D no thre is 135 notes
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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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ok it had to be done
over 9000
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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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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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I'm pretty sure that Moonlight Sonata movement 3 has about 9500 notes in it.
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Damn, I wish I knew how many notes there are in Opus Clavicembalisticum.
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On October 14 2008 08:27 Grobyc wrote: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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Count the number in 1/8 of the song and multiply by 8
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