[Choir Bell Request Song] Careless Whisper
Umm, that song is a 5-minute song, and I don’t have a permanent bell =(
Do you want the melody of the intro (the sax at the beginning)?
Or the verses?
Or the refrain, starting from “I’m never gonna dance again..”?
Or the entire song? o.O
Chibi Asura San (Engineer), Hikaru Masai (Guardian), Selene Minerva (Revenant)
Guild: The Bunnies [Bun] ~ Server: Jade Quarry
-laughs- A choir bell killed me. True story. I saw the Reddit stuff and decided to test a song or two on a consumable bell. Unfortunately I lack anything resembling musical talent, so I was just tapping the numbers by rote off the list. For the Star Wars theme there were useful spaces between numbers to indicate pauses.
Well, I -do- have some skill in copy-typing. So as I hit the numbers, I also instinctively hit the space bar rather than just pausing … and I’d chosen to be on a ledge over a long drop in Divinity’s Reach. Next thing I know I’ve jumped forward to my doom. Alas, the bell despawned.
On the bright side, before my demise I could tell that the Star Wars theme was very recognizable on the bell once I got the right speed of ringing the notes.
The main saxophone part is usually played in D minor, which, great job intuiting that! However! It’s not possible on the bells because the B flat is not included in the scale. You have a D dorian mode, (on a piano, all white keys in sequence from D to the next octave D in order of increasing pitch.)
SO, being that it’s a minor key, it can be transposed to A minor, thus, it would be something like this:
I will use numbers to indicate octaves, so A(3) means play A on the highest octave, A(1) means lowest octave (press 9 to get to the lowest until 9 isn’t available, press 0 to get to the highest until 0 isn’t available).
To translate my letter notes into the notes on the bell (the one you can play in town, not the one in the mini-game, which works differently), use the following (numbers are the notes on a bell, letters are the notes in the scale)
D = 1
E = 2
F = 3
G = 4
A = 5
B = 6
C = 7
D = D(2) = 8 (a note here, the upper octave D in any scale is also the lower octave D in any proceeding scale, so 8 in the lowest scale is also 1 in the next scale)
Thus, Careless Whisper’s sax part goes something like:
B(3), A(3), E(3), C(2) , B(3), A(3), E(3), C(2) —-- G(3), F(3), C(2), A(2) , G(3), F(3), C(2), A(2) —-- F(3), E(3), C(2), A(2) F(2) [hold] —-- E(2) F(2) G(2) A(2) B(2) C(2) D(3) E(3) [repeat]
To translate that to bell numbers (on the in-town choir bell), you would press in the order of something like, (parenthetical numbers indicate changing the octave)
6, 5, 2(9), 7 – 6, 5, 2(9), 7 – (0)4, 3(9), 7, 5 – (0)4, 3(9), 7, 5 – 4, 3(9), 7, 5, 3 [hold] —- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, (0)2
Was there another part you wanted?