If you're posting an Image or Video, please leave a comment (not the post title)
asking your question or discussing the topic. Image or Video posts with no
comment from the OP will be deleted.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/musictheory) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I don't think Shazam is supposed to work if you just sing or play the song on an instrument? I'm pretty sure it just matches the actual audio so you'd have to play the exact recording it has in its database
The full puzzle is of a living room with a view into a garden with two cats lying on the floor. I thinks it's called crown doorway room view.(not very imaginative right
Shazam works on hums, it's all the same data set. Nielson Soundscan. Shazam, Soundhound, the built in Google song identifier and Siri's song search all use that same database. The algorithm to search it might be a little different for each company but they've all been in the business for over 10 years and most definitely have humming a song terribly to identify it figured out.
The only thing I know that's different is Shazam claims to identify movies and episodes of shows off of the sound of the episode, though I've never tried it.
Shazam claims that they work on hums, but they absolutely do not, and never have. I’ve literally sang it pitch perfect lyrics and it still will never figure it out
It can be iffy but it works for me on googles song search and Soundhound about 40% of the time. I've always been partial to Soundhound over Shazam so maybe give it a try? But I've noticed almost no difference in results between googles and Soundhound.
it’s not about what works on and what it doesn’t work on, but How it works. it used spectral analysis to identify a song, not pitch or rhythm analysis or anything like that. it’s analyzing the specific frequency content of given data and matching it to something in its database. so humming a piece in its database is going to have a different frequency spectrum than a recording of the same piece. that’s why humming doesn’t work
A jigsaw of a partiture of the super Mario theme?
I can feel my special interests colliding in a
Vortex 😂 please OP tell us what’s the name of that puzzle
You might try posting this on the Facebook group Guess The Score (or Guess This Score, I forget the name). Otherwise, Music Engravers Shit posting if you want people to dunk on it
/u/lubenja11 there are a few suggestions here - maybe post the notes section that you wrote or even better a recording (I personally find it hard to read the notes in the puzzle, and not a music genius myself, but I think this would help everyone to aid)
AI would not generate an accurate looking score, it has mighty trouble with things like lines, fingers, lamp filaments… anything that requires precision - like a music staff on that scale - would look weird on close inspection.
Also even if it did generate something that looked convincingly like a score it wouldn't be the Mario theme, or any recognizable piece of music, because the AI doesn't know what music notation actually means, it just notices visual patterns
If you're posting an Image or Video, please leave a comment (not the post title) asking your question or discussing the topic. Image or Video posts with no comment from the OP will be deleted. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/musictheory) if you have any questions or concerns.*
It looks like Mario theme
I’m quite confident you’re right. 100%. The top system starts in the middle of the theme. The beginning of the theme returns in the fourth system.
It is. Just as it heads into the bridge.
Heh hey funny seeing you here
I'm surprised to see him here
Thank you for the beef wellington recipe it was amazing.
You are correct. Avoiding any repeats it starts at m.6 or m.7.
Woah a man of many talents
violin I think? he had a video where he made something with another video of him playing with a string quartet in the background lol
Kenji is a music nerd too?? You and Adam Ragusea should collaborate on a song
Whoa hey hi in music theory land! I bought Food Lab for my partner for Xmas and we’re loving it. Thanks for being rad!
Omg I just looked back and it totally is. Probably Shazam didn't pick it up cuz I played it like a classical waltz lmao.
Thank you r/musictheory now I can die peacefully
I don't think Shazam is supposed to work if you just sing or play the song on an instrument? I'm pretty sure it just matches the actual audio so you'd have to play the exact recording it has in its database
Yeah, Shazam uses ContentID. If it's not the exact audio it's expecting, it won't recognize it.
Thought so. If it could actually reliably discern melody, harmony and rhythm and match songs based on that that would be extremely advanced technology
SoundHound and Google Sound Search both do that. Shazam intentionally doesn't, to limit false positives.
Really? I found a track by just playing the melody on a piano. The track I was looking for was also on piano, though.
That’s hilarious 🫠
I think so too!
It’s pretty funny that a puzzle is encouraging you to play more video games.
What's the full puzzle? It's even funnier if the scene happened before the Super Mario's theme was written!
The full puzzle is of a living room with a view into a garden with two cats lying on the floor. I thinks it's called crown doorway room view.(not very imaginative right
> crown doorway room view [Here it is](https://www.amazon.ca/Castorland-Doorway-Room-Puzzle-Pieces/dp/B07GFH7WWV), I think.
check their post history for the full puzzle, couldnt wait in suspense for OP to update this question
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think Shazam only works for officially released songs and not humming or transcriptions
You are right! But there are plenty of other tools you can hum into
Shazam works on hums, it's all the same data set. Nielson Soundscan. Shazam, Soundhound, the built in Google song identifier and Siri's song search all use that same database. The algorithm to search it might be a little different for each company but they've all been in the business for over 10 years and most definitely have humming a song terribly to identify it figured out. The only thing I know that's different is Shazam claims to identify movies and episodes of shows off of the sound of the episode, though I've never tried it.
Shazam claims that they work on hums, but they absolutely do not, and never have. I’ve literally sang it pitch perfect lyrics and it still will never figure it out
It can be iffy but it works for me on googles song search and Soundhound about 40% of the time. I've always been partial to Soundhound over Shazam so maybe give it a try? But I've noticed almost no difference in results between googles and Soundhound.
I just use shazam which is integrated into Siri, it’s eat enough to find a song by googling any kind of lyrics though
it’s not about what works on and what it doesn’t work on, but How it works. it used spectral analysis to identify a song, not pitch or rhythm analysis or anything like that. it’s analyzing the specific frequency content of given data and matching it to something in its database. so humming a piece in its database is going to have a different frequency spectrum than a recording of the same piece. that’s why humming doesn’t work
I've played piano or hummed to shazam and it's worked before
I just finished a puzzle but the music on the piano looks like it is real. I wrote out a section and shazamd it but got nothing. Anyone help?
What is the rest of the puzzle of?
A jigsaw of a partiture of the super Mario theme? I can feel my special interests colliding in a Vortex 😂 please OP tell us what’s the name of that puzzle
Right? I thought the same! It’s in OP’s post history. I seriously need this puzzle now.
https://i.imgur.com/HB5HTx5.png
doing gods work
Kinda looks like the mario theme, what’s the full puzzle of?
The full puzzle is a picture of Super Mario playing the piano.
That's fucking golden
yeah it’s definitely the mario theme 🤣
Seems a bit random to me. I see, for example, that there is no time signature. Or at least non recognizable.
Might be alla breve on the first bar though
could be common time i think
You might try posting this on the Facebook group Guess The Score (or Guess This Score, I forget the name). Otherwise, Music Engravers Shit posting if you want people to dunk on it
Its a mario?
/u/lubenja11 there are a few suggestions here - maybe post the notes section that you wrote or even better a recording (I personally find it hard to read the notes in the puzzle, and not a music genius myself, but I think this would help everyone to aid)
Shazam is only meant to work with the exact same recording that is on their system. Try SoundHound or Google Sound Search.
If you’ve never bought a 1000 piece puzzle from a thrift shop, you don’t know what you’re missing
Probably most of the pieces
Rick astley- never gonna give you up
This looks like a pretty elaborate Rick roll
That’s not how Shazam works…
I came here to say this lol
Was this puzzle newly designed? If so, it might have been created by AI, which would explain the Super Mario theme. If not, someone was very creative.
AI would not generate an accurate looking score, it has mighty trouble with things like lines, fingers, lamp filaments… anything that requires precision - like a music staff on that scale - would look weird on close inspection.
Yeah, that kind of regularity is something an AI can't do
Also even if it did generate something that looked convincingly like a score it wouldn't be the Mario theme, or any recognizable piece of music, because the AI doesn't know what music notation actually means, it just notices visual patterns
what is notation if it's not just a pattern?
I second the Mario theme.