Q. I have just recently picked up playing the piano. Self taught through Youtube tutorials and such. Most of the time they mention the keys or chords to play. I normally write these down, but would like to transcribe them to notes on sheet music. (to start to learn how to read music) Is there a program that will do this? IE I type in the letters and it spits out sheet music.
A. I have Finale Songwriter. Finale Songrwriter cost $49.95 but you can get a 30 day trial and such
cheers song...?
Q. what is it? who sings it?
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A. here you go dude Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
is the theme song from the 1980s television sitcom Cheers. The song was written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo. The Portnoy-Angelo theme for Cheers is one of the most memorable in TV history. Several weeks after the premiere, Portnoy went back into the studio to record a full-length version of the song that made the pop charts. It has since been released on albums several times, as well as covered by numerous other singers and bands.
[edit] History
In 1981, songwriter Gary Portnoy had just been fired as a staff writer from a major music publisher. His friend Judy Hart Angelo happened to meet a Broadway producer at dinner one night who needed a score written for a new musical he was producing. They decided to team up. Gary had never written for the theater; Judy had never written a song
In the spring of 1982, Portnoy and Angelo were songwriting for an off-Broadway show called Preppies. Angelo sent a tape of the show's theme song, "People Like Us", to a friend in California, who passed it on to Cheers co-creators and producers Glen and Les Charles. They thought that "People Like Us" would be the perfect theme song for their show, set at a friendly Boston bar.
Unfortunately, "People Like Us" belonged to Preppies, and was a crucial part of it, so the duo agreed to write a new song for Cheers - the producer for the show had also moved to legally block Paramount (which had signed on to Cheers) from using "People Like Us.".[1] The second iteration, titled "My Kind of People", was essentially a reworked version of the "People Like Us," losing some originality in the process.
Rejected, Portnoy and Angelo wrote and submitted two more potential themes. One of them, entitled "Another Day" contained a lyric line "There are times when it's fun to take the long way home" that greatly appealed to the Charles brothers. But, overall, the song missed the mark and was passed on.
The fourth song began with an inviting intro followed by simple, alternating chords on a piano for the verses. An uplifting refrain seemed to come almost naturally out of that, and the two songwriters had recorded a simple demo for the Cheers producers. This song was "Where Everybody Knows Your Name." Upon hearing it, the producers immediately chose it as the song for Cheers. After a few lyric changes designed to broaden the song's appeal to a more general audience, Portnoy sang the song himself for the television version. Producers wanted to keep the simple feel of the demo in the real version, also keeping the number of instruments down to a minimum.
Portnoy and Angelo's demo had included more verses than the single one heard in the television version. They were later released in a full length recording of the song.
In 2006 a portion of the song was used on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother during the episode Swarley. Barney enters his regular bar to be greeted by his hated nickname "Swarley" after which the bartender plays the song and the ending credits use the same font as Cheers.
In 2008, the song was used in a Diet Dr. Pepper commercial and a Kelsey's commercial.
Looking for a windows computer program that allows you to create music using actual notes and subdivisions?
Q. So I was looking for a computer program that allows you to choose an instrument. After choosing the instrument you choose a note or a chord and the length that it will be played (as in whole note half note quarter note etc...). There would be the ability to choose multiple instruments playing at the same time, and eventually you could put it all together and create a song. I am just looking for a music creator and I am sure there are many out there that do things like this but I dont know where to start the search. Anybody have experience with a good music creator? All answers appreciated, thanks guys.
A. You should check out Reason 4. I love it, I make all kinds of music with it. Hip-Hop, Reggae, Classical, Techno, and Ambient. It has 3 awesome sythesizers with tons of sounds and you can tweak them and make your own from scratch. It also has 2 samplers, a drum machine, a loop player, tons of effects such as delay, reverb, distortion, and equalizers maximizer/limiters, a monophonic arppegiator, and more. You can find tons of refills (sound libraries) for whatever style of music you play. I use a M-Audio Axiom 61 midi keyboard to trigger all the sounds (flutes, strings, horns, piano's, xylophone, whatever). You can use a pencil tool to write the notes in if you don't have a midi controller, but I suggest you get one when you get the program (mine is perfect for Reason). Send me a message if you have any more questions or if you want to check out some of my tunes ;)
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