In The Kubrick Film "Full Metal Jacket"...

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… there’s a section during the Basic Training section, where the tympani play a melody by themselves.

Dum-dum-da-dee-dee–dee–dee-dum-dum- -dum

Anyone know what that’s from?

Thanks

Quasi

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Could be a drum-major malfunction.

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Jesus! 55.5 K posts, and that’s all you got?

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Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Vivien wrote the original music for soundtrack under the name “Abigail Mead”. I don’t know what song you are referring to. The following linky has the full list of the music where you can listen to the whole soundtrack and buy the songs :slight_smile:

BTW: Wots a “tympani”?

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Alternate spelling of timpani - Kettle Drums.

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Here’s an old message board (not this one) thread that may help.

Here is the song on Youtube that is mentioned in that thread.

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Y’all are awesome as always with your quick and accurate answers. Thanks to all of you!

Also TriP, I never knew of the other spelling, so I learned something new, thanks. When I write the word, I always think of the “tympanic membrane” to derive the correct spelling and along with some other parts we now have another sort of drum. :slight_smile:

Thanks again for the assistance!

Q

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Okay, let me revisit this one more time. Gunny Ermey has a cadence he sings solo to a normal march tempo - there is NO response from the troops.

Not good at writing out sung cadence, but Ermey used this one: “Bom-bom-be-lay-bom. Bom-bom-be-lay”. So if you can sing this cadence to yourself, you’ll get the idea of what I mean when I wrote that the tympani played that to resemble the cadence. I don’t know exactly where in the film that is, but I will watch it tonight and report back. Also, if you happen to see it before me, then maybe you can further explain it.

(I hope I’m making sense. Not as good as I once was at that. :wink: )

The original post was me asking if that particular cadence relates to a Marine Corps march, or if it always has been just a cadence call?

Sorry if I confused y’all.

Quasi

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In print sounds rather like the American song Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay
Lottie Collins delighted us with in music halls of the '90s.

However, Sayers later said that he had not written the song, but had heard it performed in the 1880s by a black singer, Mama Lou, in a well-known St. Louis brothel run by “Babe” Connors.