I took piano lessons for about five years (and hated it), and played the alto sax in the school band for three years (and loved it). I could still play “Twinkle Twinkle” with ease on either, but my signature tunes, such as they are, would be Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” on piano, and “Rock Around the Clock” on the sax.
And meant to say… I got the song on the Google guitar graphic, after a fashion.
Really easy on the keyboard. I did Twinkle Twinkle, followed by Stairway to Heaven, followed by The Entertainer. I’ve always been good at tapping out a tune.
You can record and get the URL. Here’s me plucking Stairway to Heaven; is it recognizable?
ETA: Sorry, I see I’m not the first to notice the recording capabilities.
My training consists of playing trumpet from grades 6-10, and I think I could play Twinkle Twinkle without too much trouble.
Yep. Sounds good to me.
Nothing to it. But then I practice an hour or two a day…
Those latter two are proving quite difficult for me, but Do Re Mi was easy enough that I almost got it in one pass (though it cut me off at the end, and there are some timing mistakes).
I had some musical training back when I was 6, but, honestly, I don’t think any of it is useful in doing this sort of thing. I learned to play by ear on my own. And then I had more musical training after that, but it was mostly vocal, and learning how to play scaled on piano.
This.
Although I answered “I have some musical training, and could do it easily,” I’m pretty sure I could have done it easily back when I was a kid, before I had any musical training.
I answered “no training/with difficulty.” Tried to learn guitar and failed miserably, but with trial and error I can eventually figure out very simple tunes on keyboard instruments. I can also play a few tunes on touchtone telephone pads.
One thing I did discover I could do with some facility was creating music on “music construction set” type computer programs that were popular in the 1980s; I used to make games on the Commodore 64 using game creation utilities that included music arrangement components, and did fairly accurate versions of various TV/movie theme songs to accompany them.
[spoiler]Ah! Tried a different browser, and I can hear it now. Cute.
Anyway, yes - T and G play the same note, so there’s no need to go off a single row on the keyboard.
I have no idea what the (musical) key is, though. It “acts” like C on a piano, since you can go right up the scale on a single row, but it could just as easily be G, or F, or any other key, at least as far as I’m concerned. I have some modest musical skillz, but I’ve always been mystified by perfect pitch.
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Also…
I heart spoilers!
How the notes are arranged and why.
It’s all the notes in the G major scale, arranged so you can easily play a G (GBGB), C (GCE), and D (DF#AD) chords. On the keyboard, they’re in scale order and works in diagonally left columns, so that QAZ are all the same. (Semicolon is left out for some reason.)
Also, you can play the song differently if you do it in D instead of G:
TTOOPPO IIUUYYT OOIIUUY OOIIUUY TTOOPPO IIUUYYT
How the notes are arranged and why.
[spoiler]It’s all the notes in the G major scale, arranged so you can easily play a G (GBGB), C (GCE), and D (DF#AD) chords. On the keyboard, they’re in scale order and works in diagonally left columns, so that QAZ are all the same. (Semicolon is left out for some reason.)
Also, you can play the song differently if you do it in D instead of G:
TTOOPPO IIUUYYT OOIIUUY OOIIUUY TTOOPPO IIUUYYT
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Limited musical training and it was easier than I thought. It took a while to find the right starting note and to understand how to use the keyboard on the logo (a couple minutes) but then I had it.
Stoopid confessions time: I couldn’t remember how “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” goes. I kept thinking of the theme from Haydn’s Surprise Symphony instead.
no musical talent at all. sister got that. i got the artistic talent she didn’t.
i can kinda sorta manage chopsticks on the piano if you leave me alone for a while…
Same as the ABC song.
And Baa Baa Black Sheep.
I play piano, so using the keyboard would have been cheating. It took me a few minutes to figure it out by plucking the guitar strings. Then I amused myself by playing Do Re Mi on the keyboard, which I forgot you can play entirely within one octave in a major key.
Leaffan, correct me if I’m wrong, but how could you possibly play The Entertainer on a keyboard with only one octave and no sharps or flats?