Can people recommend diagrams and electronic guitar tuner gadgets to help a 12 year old tune a guitar? [more inside]
posted by memebake on Nov 11, 2009 - 20 answers

What song is this, please? (youtube link) http://tinyurl.com/ykppwlo
posted by wsg on Nov 5, 2009 - 4 answers

Can anyone identify one of these songs I have stuck in my head? (Links below) - Please help! [more inside]
posted by cdenman on Oct 27, 2009 - 6 answers

Any tips for getting a tune out of your head? There's this damn ice cream truck which makes several passes a day with like a 5 second loop of a tune, and it's been struck in my head for about a week. Can't concentrate on my work. I can only imagine how insane the poor driver is by now.
posted by hungrysquirrels on Jul 21, 2009 - 44 answers

The French way to say the verb "tuned" as in a piano or a chorus? [more inside]
posted by Gucky on Jul 20, 2009 - 8 answers

What Is That Song They Always Use...? [more inside]
posted by jfrancis on Jun 3, 2009 - 127 answers

Who sang the cover of the Beatles song 'Do You Want to Know a Secret?' where the lyrics were replaced with Japanese words and company names like sushi, jvc, sony and subaru?
posted by machaus on Apr 19, 2009 - 7 answers

Please help me find other songs that have a similar sound to the first 30 seconds of Vampire Weekend's M79. [more inside]
posted by Andy's Gross Wart on Mar 21, 2009 - 8 answers

SONGFILTER It's a good one. I consider myself a music aficionado, but I still am stumped on this one. My buddy thinks it's from a movie soundtrack, I' not too sure it is - but we both definitely recognize the hook. We transcribed it into notes for you all - more after the jump... [more inside]
posted by Detuned Radio on Feb 28, 2009 - 14 answers

Music in the background of the first 30 seconds or so of this video? It's driving me mad and I've asked everyone I know (including the video creator, to no avail.) [more inside]
posted by littlerobothead on Oct 8, 2008 - 5 answers

A song that surely must exist. All we (dad and I) can recall is the line "but we were soldiers". This is not, and has nothing to do with the book/movie 'We were Soldiers". I am unsure of the title, but I believe the chorus begins with "but we were soldiers", as in the idea "but whatever, we, being soldiers, did what we had to do". Maybe a country tune, but I'm just not sure. Could be from a musical or whatever. Any ideas?
posted by dawson on Oct 6, 2008 - 11 answers

Can I learn to create melodies? [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Jun 15, 2008 - 37 answers

Whats that song? In an advertisement featuring the Concorde, showing it taking off (in slow motion with heat fumes rising in the foreground), the ad played in the early 1990s, and the song went "(something) (something) with Jesus... the great (something) in the sky" and there was cowbell. (It sounds like ELO to me but I cant find or name the song). [more inside]
posted by jak68 on May 13, 2008 - 8 answers

Who sings the version of "Someone to Watch Over Me" on the latest episode of This American Life? It is incorrectly credited to, uh, Sting, on the TAL website. [more inside]
posted by dbarefoot on Feb 18, 2008 - 3 answers

Is it normal for a guitar to go out of tune like this? [more inside]
posted by tabulem on May 3, 2007 - 15 answers

Name that tune: I need a game for iTunes / some other MP that will quiz me on track names & artists from a specific subset of my library. (on Windows) (also, advice on music memorization is welcome) [more inside]
posted by tmcw on Mar 6, 2007 - 4 answers

NameThatTuneFilter: dance song, no lyrics, makes me think of James Bond and white sandy beaches...and i can whistle it... [more inside]
posted by reflexed on Oct 10, 2006 - 11 answers

Tuning my snowboard: I just got a Burton File Guide Kit to tune the edges of my snowboard. I am pretty sure i understand it; but just in case, does anyone know where to find directions for installing the files into the handpeice?
posted by MNDZ on Oct 2, 2006 - 1 answer

Can anyone name this tune? (MP3 file) This is my primitive recreation of a song I heard the other day. More information about the context inside. [more inside]
posted by mmoncur on Sep 25, 2006 - 6 answers

Name that tune please :: PBS is great, and the songs in their promos are actually just as good. Currently running is a promo that ends with the words; "Be More ~ ThirteenHD" (this is PBS Thirteen's High-Def channel which they broadcast in NYC & possibly elsewhere?). The music which accompanies it is a piece that I'd classify as sort of a Blues/Rock/Jazz instrumental. My Question: Name that tune!?! [more inside]
posted by Jhaus on Jan 31, 2006 - 2 answers

What is the name of the piece that contains this melody, and who is the composer?
posted by Bugbread on Nov 8, 2005 - 3 answers

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. [more inside]
posted by shannymara on Apr 24, 2005 - 5 answers

I'm off back to the parents in a couple of days time for Christmas and will invariably need to tune up their Windows PC. My USB key-chain currently contains Firefox, Thunderbird, AdAware, Spybot S&D and ZoneAlarm updates as well as service packs and virus definition updates. What else should I include?
posted by ralawrence on Dec 21, 2004 - 7 answers

Acoustic guitar question: I wonder if anyone is familiar with this problem. I have an old steel-string guitar, where the B-string breaks every time I tune it to the right pitch. Every other string is fine. Has anyone ever encountered this problem? Is it fixable?
posted by inksyndicate on Mar 29, 2004 - 8 answers

I want to learn how to tune pianos. (more inside.) [more inside]
posted by emelenjr on Feb 18, 2004 - 5 answers

When I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s, I used to hear this strange, eerie tune on the radio late at night. What WAS it? [more inside.] [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Dec 13, 2003 - 16 answers