For God's sakes people, forget all this nonsense: What do your ears tell you?
My votes for the most recognizable single opening note:Â The famous riddle opening to Hard Day's Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbiVqlSMgc
The most recognizable opening two notes:Â Satisfaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7cHPy04s8
A finalist on in the three note competition: Time. by The Chambers Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHfB63ln...3ln1Ig#t=8
I've written about that Beatles' opening, excerpted here from Psychology Today:
"And then there's Hard Day's Night's opening note. For over 40 years, it was one of music's great mysteries.
"How did the Beatles do that?
"For almost 46 years, musicians tried to duplicate that opening note by combining George Harrison's Rickenbacker 12-string guitar with John Lennon's six-string and Paul McCartney's bass. They failed.
"But in 2010 a mathematician, of all odd people, took a shot.
"Rather than grab three guitars, he picked up a yellow pad and felt pen and performed a calculation called a Fourier transform. From it, he deduced a fourth instrument was involved, likely played by George Martin, the Beatles's producer: a piano striking an F note on a piano.
"But that opening note was so surprising, and without precedent, that it took over 45 years, and a formula that includes the sequence f(x)e-2âixâ, to explain it."
My votes for the most recognizable single opening note:Â The famous riddle opening to Hard Day's Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbiVqlSMgc
The most recognizable opening two notes:Â Satisfaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7cHPy04s8
A finalist on in the three note competition: Time. by The Chambers Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHfB63ln...3ln1Ig#t=8
I've written about that Beatles' opening, excerpted here from Psychology Today:
"And then there's Hard Day's Night's opening note. For over 40 years, it was one of music's great mysteries.
"How did the Beatles do that?
"For almost 46 years, musicians tried to duplicate that opening note by combining George Harrison's Rickenbacker 12-string guitar with John Lennon's six-string and Paul McCartney's bass. They failed.
"But in 2010 a mathematician, of all odd people, took a shot.
"Rather than grab three guitars, he picked up a yellow pad and felt pen and performed a calculation called a Fourier transform. From it, he deduced a fourth instrument was involved, likely played by George Martin, the Beatles's producer: a piano striking an F note on a piano.
"But that opening note was so surprising, and without precedent, that it took over 45 years, and a formula that includes the sequence f(x)e-2âixâ, to explain it."