Comments on: Name that tune

Question: Name that tune

shannymara — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:35:05 -0800

Can anyone figure out the name/artist for this song. It's based heavily on the following piano riff. It's very recent and sounds like it's roughly in the genre of Train or Coldplay.

Here's the riff. Hastily-written note pairs are listed below (A-D means play the A and D note together, D being the note three steps up from A). Each line is a measure.

A-D, A-D, A-D
A-C, A-C, A-C
G-C, G-C, G-C
G-B, G-B, G-B

Length of each note:
Dotted quarter, dotted quarter, quarter
Dotted quarter, dotted quarter, quarter
Dotted quarter, dotted quarter, quarter
Dotted quarter, dotted quarter, quarter

A more complex melody plays on the riff.

It's not obscure at all and I figure someone will nab it. Next time that'll teach me to listen to the lyrics and Google them.

By: gazole

gazole — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:51:37 -0800

That sounds like "Clocks" by Coldplay to me...

Here is a link to that (yes, not very obscure) song at iTunes.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:57:13 -0800

I'm guessing Coldplay's "Clocks"

By: shannymara

shannymara — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:05:40 -0800

Awesome... yall are da bomb.

By: abcde

abcde — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:08:12 -0800

Note that the basic outline of that riff is reused for their new single Speed of Sound (though not shamefully so)

By: DawnSimulator

DawnSimulator — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:35:47 -0800

Hate to rag off topic, but the use of piano in music by both Coldplay and...uh, who's that one-hit-wonder, Vanessa Carlton? ...anyway, it all seems so dumbed down to me. Especially "Clocks," using that plinked out arpeggiated nonsense, is it too much to ask for Rickie Lee Jones jazz riffs or even (old school) Elton John honky tonk?

Just sayin.