Please find me an .mp3 of this terribly common cellphone ring-tone.

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C  Bb  D   E
Bb A   Bb  C
G  F   A   C  F

I’m having a discussion with a couple of people about the rhythm of this trite little ditty. Does it start with a two-eighth-note pickup, or does it start on the downbeat?

Anyway, all I really want is a link to an MP3 of the melody, as heard (regrettably) 300 times a day in my workplace. Thanks in advance…

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OK. Now I have to know what you are using it for. This sounds interesting.

Please, I have to know!!!

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If your profile is accurate, I just sent you a midi file of the notes you put up. I don’t recognize the tune since I don’t know the direction of the melody.

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Oh, the message looks weird but the domain I sent it from was my verizon one. I signed it and it has a 190ish byte midi file attached.

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Is that the standard Nokia ringtone? Like the guy’s phone on Trigger Happy TV?

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The standard ringtone is from the last half of the second phrase of Tarrega’s “Grand Waltz”. Midi here: http://www.midisource.net/tarrega2.html

The ringtone starts on the downbeat.

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rowrrbazzle has it, that’s it! Is Tarrega someone I should have heard of? I always thought some Verizon hack somewhere wrote that.

dorkusmalorkusmafia, thank you so much for the emailed, how nice of you! If you’ll listen to the Tarrega link (you have to select Grand Waltz from the dropdown) you’ll hear it with the octaves properly placed.

The reason for this was so I could send the tune to my brother, so we could argue over whether the first note of the ringtone is a downbeat or a pickup. Absent context, I’ve always heard it as a pickup, which makes the last note fall in sort of a hip place, musically, for a ringtone. But hearing the whole thing in context makes that discussion moot, except it’s still fascinating to me how one can hear things so many different ways, without proper context. Example: 2 notes sounded together, a minor third apart, do they sound minor or major? Depends on whether you’re “hearing” the top half or the bottom half of a triad, which is determined by context and absent context, might be a personality indicator or something, who knows.

Thank you all.

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Guitar tablature here: http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/music/classtab/ftagw.txt