Scansion Templates

3: Bali Hai | Edelweiss | Jingle Bells | In The Mood | J'attendrai | Rocket Man | Purple Rain | Choc'late Rain | Gangnam Style | Closing Time | You're So Vain. Tc x.

3: Girls Girls Girls | Hot Cross Buns | Three Blind Mice. X x x.

3: The Space Pope | Free Fallin' | Chop Suey | Moon River. X tc.


4: Hallelujah | Doctor Zaius | Sex And Violence  | Thunch And Snupple | O Susanna | Ol' Man River | Get Up, Stand Up. Tc tc.

4: Five Hundred Miles | Abide With Me | Where Is My Mind? | Come on, Eileen | Eight Million Bees | All By Myself | All Through The Night | Karma Police. X tc x.

4. King Of The Road | Silver And Gold. Tc x x.


5. Eleanor Rigby | Buffalo Soldier | Knights In White Satin | Waltzing Matilda. Tc x tc.

5. Ey, Macarena | Ooh, Barracuda | Guantanamera | Anticipation | I'm Levitating | She Drives Me Crazy | Evil Woman. X tc tc.

5: Autumn In New York | Blinded By The Light | Puttin' On The Ritz | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | Take My Breath Away | Take Me Home Tonight | Happy Holidays. Tc tc x.

5: No, I Won't Back Down | Whoa, Sweet Child Of Mine. X x tc x.

5: Feliz Navidad | Slip Slidin' Away. X tc x x.


6: Please Don't Fear The Reaper | Sitting On A Park Bench | Some Enchanted Evening | Smile Like You Mean It | In The Bleak Midwinter | Be My Little Baby. Tc tc tc.

6: And It's All For Me Grog | How I Wish You Were Here | Weselcie Sie Ludzie | Silent Night, Holy Night. Tc x tc x.

6: Caught In A Bad Romance | God Bless America | Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad | Love Is A Battlefield. X tc tc x | X x x tc x.

6: There's Whiskey In The Jar | We're Movin' Right Along | The Boys Are Back In Town | Ghost Riders In The Sky | The Long And Winding Road. X tc tc x.


7: Ain't No Mountain High Enough | Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain | Button Up Your Overcoat | Camptown Races, Sing This Song | Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend | Dream A Little Dream Of Me | If I Only Had A Brain | Oh My Darling Clementine | Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone | Ground Control To Major Tom | Going With Him Someday Soon | Help Me Make It Through The Night | Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down | Papa Was A Rodeo | I'm Not Sick But I'm Not Well | Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | Old McDonald Had A Farm | Hello Darkness, My Old Friend | Yes, I'm Lonely, Want To Die | You Come Over Unannounced | It's A Small World After All | God I Feel Like Hell Tonight | Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Tc tc tc x.

7: And It's Bad Bad Leroy Brown | When You Wake, You Shall Have Cake | While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Tc x x tc x.

7: Someone To Watch Over Me | Total Eclipse Of The Heart. X tc x tc x. Tc x x tc x.

7: Stop Draggin' My Heart Around | It's Only A Paper Moon | I'm Not Sick But I'm Not Well. X tc x tc x.

7: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer | Somewhere Over The Rainbow | I Got Friends In Low Places | I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane | A La Claire Fontaine | Love On An Elevator | Got A Black Magic Woman | Go Tell It On The Mountain | Down By The Sally Gardens | And I Will Always Love You | <Bass Line To Under Pressure>. Tc x tc tc. X tc tc tc.

7: Put Your Head On My Shoulder. Tc tc x tc.

7: It's The Right Time Of The Night | Younger Than Springtime Are You | 'Cilia, You're Breaking My Heart. Tc x tc x x.

7: I Had The Time Of My Life | It's Just The Nearness Of You | You're Just To Good To Be True. X tc tc x x.


8: All I Want for Christmas Is You | All We Are Is Dust In The Wind | Lots Of Fun At Finnegan's Wake | Keep Away From Runaround Sue | Parsley Sage Rosemary And Time. Tc x x tc x x. Tc tc tc x x.

8. But I Only Have Eyes For You. Tc tc x x tc.

8: I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas. X tc tc x tc.

8. Oh What A Beautiful Morning | O Lord, It's Hard To Be Humble. X tc tc x tc | X x x tc x tc.

8. I'm Picking Up Good Vibrations | I Come From A Land Down Under. X tc x tc tc.

8. Don't Cry For Me, Argentina | I Spent A Year In The Kingdom. X tc x x x tc.

8: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Do You Want To Build A Snowman? | How Are Things in Glocca Morra? | Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee | Oh The Shark Has Pearly Teeth Dear | Yankee Doodle Came To London | Never Give Up On The Good Times | June Is Bustin' Out All Over | In The Hills Of Connemara | No One Wants To Be Defeated | Billie Jean Is Not My Lover. Tc tc tc tc.

8: Well I Suppose Anything Goes. X tc x tc x x.

8: Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart. X tc x tc x x. 

8: I'm Waving My Dick In The Wind | X tc x x tc x.

8: Till All The Things You Are Are Mine | Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast? | Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot | Amazing Grace How Sweet The Sound | The Last Of Barrett's Privateers | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone. X tc tc tc x.

8: I'm Just A Girl Who Can't Say No | Golden Rod And The 4H Stone | She's The Star Of The County Down. Tc x tc tc x.

8. I Can't Live With Or Without You | Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome | For The Times They Are A-Changing. Tc x tc x tc.

8: Splish Splash I Was Taking A Bath. X x tc tc x x.


9: Ba Ba Black Sheep, Have You Any Wool | Whisper Words Of Wisdom, Let It Be | I Can't Do Without You For Too Long | Blackbird Singing In The Dead Of Night | <Oriental Riff> | <Synth Riff From The Final Countdown>. Tc tc tc tc x.

9: Beautiful Dreamer, Wake Unto Me | Give Me Some Afro-Cuban Bebop | I Know A Heartache When I See One | It Was Good Living With You, Aha | Intergalactic, Planetary | Don't Speak, I Know Just What You're Thinking. Tc x tc tc x x. Tc x tc tc tc.

9: I'll Never Be Your Beast Of Burden | I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger | Mah Na Mah Na, Doo Doo Do Doo Doo. X tc x x tc tc.

9. You're Running Around, I Can't Stand It. X tc x x tc tc.

9: Thunch And Snupple Fighting Crime Sometimes. X x tc tc tc x.

9: I Bought Me A Cat, My Cat Pleased Me. X tc x x x tc x.

9: Sing Us A Song You're The Piano Man. Tc x x tc tc x.

9: All The Time, I'm Grateful All The Time. Tc x x tc tc x.

9: Soon Found Out He Had A Heart Of Glass. X x x x tc tc x.

9: Just My Rifle, My Pony, And Me | Are You Going To Scarborough Fair. Tc tc x tc x x.

9: You Spin Me Right Round, Baby, Right Round. X tc x x tc x x.

9: Lady In Red Is Dancing With Me. Tc x x x tc x x.

9: When I Take You Out In The Surrey. Tc tc x tc tc.

9: I Get Weary And Sick Of Trying | Right About Now, The Funk Soul Brother. Tc tc x tc tc.

9: Hush, Little Baby, Don't Say A Word | I Don't Know What They Want From Me | I Get A Little Bit Genghis Khan. X tc tc x tc x.

9: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. X x x tc x tc x.

9: Call Me Any Day Or Night, Call Me. Tc tc tc x x x.

9: We Can Drive It Home With One Headlight | And The Beat Goes On Just Like My Love | Apple Bottom Jeans, Boots With The Fur. Tc tc x x tc x.

9: I Am A Lineman For The County. X tc tc tc tc.

9. I Was Born Under A Wand'ring Star. Tc x tc x tc x.

9. Birds Flying High, You Know How I Feel. X tc x tc tc x.

9: I Am A Rock, I Am An Island. Tc x x tc x tc.


10: And Make A Northwest Passage To The Sea | There Ain't No Way To Hide Your Lyin' Eyes | We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band | Don't Leave Me Hanging On The Telephone | But I Was Gonna Be An Engineer | I'd Rather Be A Hammer Than A Nail | I Eat My Candy With The Pork And Beans. X tc tc tc tc x.

10: Buffalo Girls Won't You Come Out Tonight | Here In My Car I Feel Safest Of All. Tc x x tc tc x x.

10: It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year. Tc x tc x x tc x.

10: But I Can't Help Falling In Love With You. X tc x tc x tc x.

10. A Wop Bap A Loo Bop A Lop Bam Boom. X x tc tc x tc x.

10: Because Your Kiss, Your Kiss, Is On My List. X tc x x x x tc x.

10: I Don't Need To Walk Around In Circles | Night Time On The City Of New Orleans | People Say I've Got A Drinkin' Problem | Wouldn't It Be Nice If We Were Older | Everybody's Working For The Weekend | Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic | Metal Movie Marijuana Meltdown | Everybody's Working For The Weekend. Tc tc tc tc tc.

10: I Want To Sink To The Bottom With You | I Owe My Soul To The Company Store. X tc x tc tc x x.

10: I Get Along Without You Very Well | O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. X tc tc tc x.

10: Close Your Eyes, I'll Be Here In The Morning | Oh the Years Creep Slowly By, Lorena. Tc x x tc tc tc.

10: I Have Emotional Motion Sickness. X x x tc x tc tc.

10: Summertime And The Living Is Easy | And She's Buying A Stairway To Heaven | Raindrops On Roses, Whiskers On Kittens. Tc x tc tc x tc.

10: We Will All Go Together When We Go | Somewhere Over The Rainbow Way Up High | Delta Dawn, Whats That Flower You Have On. Tc x tc tc tc x.

10: Lady Madonna, Children At Your Breast | I Can See Clearly Now The Rain Is Gone. Tc x tc tc tc x.

10: Even If We're Just Dancing In The Dark | Somewhere Over The Rainbow Bluebirds Fly | There's A Saying Old, Says That Love Is Blind. Tc tc x tc tc x.

10: Gather Up The Pots And The Old Tin Cans | All The Other Kids With The Pumped Up Kicks | Gimme Something Good, Gimme Something Good.. Tc tc x tc tc x.

10: The Water Is Wide, I Can Not Cross O'er. X tc x x tc x tc.

10: So Long Ago I Don't Remember When |  Abide With Me Fast Falls The Eventide | If I Had Words To Make A Day For You | I Get Knocked Down But I Get Up Again. X tc x x tc tc x.

10: We All Live In A Yellow Submarine. X x x tc tc tc x.

10: God Bless America, My Home Sweet Home. X tc tc x x tc x.

10: I'm Tired Of Living But Scared Of Dying. X tc tc x tc tc.

10: You'll Come A Waltzing Matilda With Me. X tc tc x tc x x.

10. What's Love Got To Do Got To Do With It. X x tc x tc tc x.

10. Once In A Lifetime, Water Flowing Under. Tc x tc tc tc tc.

10. It Will Not Be Long Till Our Wedding Day. X tc x x x tc x x.

10: Every Little Things She Does Is Magic. Tc tc tc x x tc.


11: If We Make It Through December, We'll Be Fine | She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain When She Comes |  One A Penny, Two A Penny, Hot Crossed Buns | If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands | Operator, Can You Help Me Place This Call | Underwater Temple, Underwater Monk | Yes, I'm Goin' To Carolina In My Mind. Tc tc tc tc tc x.

11: Wearing Out Your Chompers Eatin' Goober Peas | We Will Go Rejoicing, Bringing In The Sheaves | Now You're Just Somebody That I Used To Know | You Can Hear The Whistle Blow A Hundred Miles | Welkom In De Feesttent, Doe Maar Lekker Maf | Very Superstitious Writings On The Wall | I Can Feel It Coming In The Air Tonight | In The Bleak Midwinter, Frosty Wind Made Moan. Tc tc tc tc tc x.

11: I Gave My Love A Cherry That Had No Stone | But Don't Look Back In Anger I Heard Her Say. X tc tc tc x tc x.

11: The Lord Knows I'm Drinking And Running Around | Black Waters, Black Waters Run Down Through The Land | Amid The Dark Shades Of The Lonely Ash Grove. X tc x tc x tc x x.

11: It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing. X x tc x tc x tc x.

11: Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through The Goal Posts Of Life. X tc tc tc tc x x.

11: I Want To Know Have You Ever Seen The Rain. X tc x tc tc tc x.

11: Scarecrow And Fungus, They Ran Through A Stoplight. Tc x tc x tc x tc.

11: King Saul Fell On His Sword When It All Went Wrong. X tc tc x tc tc x.

11: She Drives Me Crazy And I Can't Help Myself. X tc tc x tc tc x.

11: Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle All The Way | If You're Lost, You Can Look And You Will Find Me | M-I-C K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E | But I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Tc x tc x tc tc x.

11: Knights In White Satin, Never Reaching The End. Tc x tc tc tc x x.

11: Early One Morning Just As The Sun Was Rising. Tc x tc x tc x x tc.

11: Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore, Hallelujah | You're My Kinda Lover, My Kinda Lover. Tc tc tc x tc tc.


12: Silent Night, Holy Night, All Is Calm, All Is Bright | I Can't Get Any Rest, People Say I'm Obsessed | There's A Lady Who's Sure All That Glitters Is Gold | When The Moon Hits Your Eye Like A Big Pizza Pie. Tc x tc x tc x tc x.

12: I Been Through The Desert On A Horse With No Name. X x tc tc tc tc x x.

12: When I Come Back To Bed Someone's Taken My Place. Tc tc x x tc tc x x.

12: Plenty Of Room At The Hotel California. Tc x x tc tc tc tc.

12: Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ | Some Enchanted Evening You Will Meet A Stranger. Tc tc tc tc tc tc.

12: Singing Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard. Tc tc tc x x tc x x.

12: That's Me In The Spot Light Losing My Religion | Aruba, Jamaica, Ooh, I Wanna Take Ya | Rossiya Svyashchennaya Nasha Derzhava. X tc x tc tc tc tc.

12: Michelle, My Belle, These Are Words That Go Together Well. Tc x x tc tc tc tc x.

12: Yesterday All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away | Chocolate Rain, Some Stay Dry And Others Feel The Pain. Tc x tc tc tc tc x.

12: But Tomorrow May Rain So I'll Follow The Sun. Tc tc x x x x tc x x.

12: Some Postman Is Grooving To All Our Live Letters. X tc x tc x tc x tc.

12: And It's All For Me Grog, Me Jolly Jolly Grog. Tc x tc x x tc c x.

12: And The Wichita Lineman Is Still On The Line. Tc tc x tc x tc x x.

12: Button Up Your Overcoat When The Wind Is Free | I Don't Want To Let You Go Till You See The Light. Tc tc tc x tc tc x.

12: We're Moving Right Along, Foot Loose And Fancy Free | This Little Light Of Mine I'm Gonna Let It Shine | I'm Sexy And I'm Kind, I'm Pretty When I Smile | Don't Wanna See Your Face, You Better Disappear. X tc tc x x tc tc x.

12: Fat Bottomed Girls, You Make The Rocking World Go 'Round. X tc x x tc tc x x x.

12: I Look At The World And I Notice It's Turning. X tc x x tc x tc tc.

12: I'm A Man Of Means By No Means, King Of The Road.  Tc tc tc tc tc x x.

12: I've Been Out Walking, I Don't Do That Much Talking. X tc tc tc x tc tc.

12: Sleep, My Child And Peace Attend Thee, All Through The Night | Heaven Holds A Place For Those Who Pray, Hey Hey Hey. Tc tc tc tc x tc x.

12. Black, Black, Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair. X x x tc tc tc tc x.

12. Forever Young, I Want To Be, Forever Young. X tc x tc x x x tc x.

12. Gimme Gimme Gimme A Man After Midnight. Tc tc tc x tc x tc.

12. Such A Perfect Day, Drank Sangria In The Park. Tc tc x x tc x tc x.

12. Desperado, Why Don't You Come To Your Senses?. Tc tc x tc tc x tc.

12: All In All You're Just Another Brick In The Wall. Tc x x tc tc x tc x.





13: Fly Me To The Moon And Let Me Play Among The Stars. Tc tc x x tc tc tc x.

13: Hey There, Delilah, What's It Like In New York City? X tc tc x x tc tc tc.

13: If You Don't Give Me Rye Whiskey I Surely Will Die. Tc x tc x tc x tc x x.

13: It Was June Or September, Don't Rightly Remember. Tc x tc tc x tc x tc.

13: It's The Eye Of The Tiger, It's The Thrill Of The Fight. Tc x tc tc tc tc x x.

13: What The Hell Am I Doing Here? I Don't Belong Here. Tc tc x tc x tc x tc.

13: As You Turn To Me And Say, My Love, Take My Breath Away. Tc tc tc x x x tc tc x.

13: Autumn In New York, Why Does It Seem So Inviting. Tc tc x x tc x tc tc.

13: Edelweiss, Edelweiss, Every Morning You Green Me. Tc x tc x tc tc x tc.

13. Silver Bells, Silver Bells, It's Christmas Time In The City. Tc x tc x tc x tc x tc.

13: You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Song Is About You. Tc x x tc tc tc x tc.

13: Why Don't You Go Where Fashion Sits? Putting On The Ritz. X tc x x tc x tc tc x.

13: You're A Mean One, Mister Grinch, You Really Are An Eel. Tc tc tc x x tc tc x.

13: Robinhood And Little John Walking Through The Forest. Tc tc tc x tc tc tc.

13: Third Boxcar, Midnight Train, Destination Bangor, Maine. X tc tc x tc tc tc x.

13: Why'd You Have To Go And Make Things So Complicated. Tc tc tc x tc tc tc.

13. Down By The Sally Gardens My Love And I Did Meet | It's Time To Play The Music, It's Time To Light The Lights | Ben Ick Van Duytschen Bloedt, Den Vaderland Ghetrouwe | À La Claire Fontaine, M'en Allant Promener | But Once You're Down In Texas, Bob Wills Is Still The King. X tc tc tc x tc tc x.

13: Hide It In A Hiding Place Where No One Ever Goes. Tc x x tc x x tc tc x.

13: I'm Always Walking After Midnight Searching For You. X tc tc tc tc tc x x.

14: I Was Dancing With My Darling To The Tennessee Waltz | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | Yankee Doodle Went To London, Riding On A Pony. Tc tc tc tc tc tc tc.

14: And No One's Gonna Save You From The Beast About To Strike | The Honky-Tonks In Texas Were My Natural Second Home. X tc tc tc tc tc tc x.

14: John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt, His Name Is My Name Too. X tc tc tc x tc x tc x.

14: It Happens To Be True, I Only Want To Be With You. X tc tc x x tc tc tc x.

14: If I'd Been Out Till Quarter To Three, Would You Lock The Door?. Tc x tc tc x x tc tc x.

14: Cause You Said Forever Now I Drive Alone Down Your Street. X tc x tc x x tc tc x x.

14: I Need A Dream Lover So I Don't Have To Dream Alone. X tc x tc x tc tc tc x.

14: In The Summer You Said You Loved Me Like An Animal. Tc tc x x x tc tc tc x.

14: My Muñequifta, My Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa. X tc tc x tc tc tc tc.

14: When You're Holding Me We Make A Pair Of Parentheses. X x tc x x tc tc x tc x.

14: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder What You Are. Tc tc tc x tc tc tc x.

14: Nothing But The Dead And Dying Back In My Little Town. Tc tc x x tc tc x tc x.

14: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Had A Very Shiny Nose | Like A Bridge Over Troubled Water I Will Lay Me Down. Tc x tc tc tc tc tc x.

14: Here Am I, Your Special Island, Come To Me, Come To Me. Tc x x tc tc tc x tc x.

14. I'm Coming Out So You Better Get This Party Started. X tc x tc tc tc tc x x.

14. Amazing Grace, How Sweet The Sound That Saved A Wretch Like Me | Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot And Never Brought To Mind. X tc x x tc x x tc tc x.

14: Tw- Tw- Tw- Twelve In The Morning, Pop Shells For A Living. X x x x tc tc x x tc tc.


15: I'm Leaving On A Jet Plane, Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again. X tc x x tc x tc x x tc x.

15: I Can Gather All The News I Need On The Weather Report. Tc tc tc tc x tc tc x x.

15: Because I'm Easy Come, Easy Go, Little High, Little Low. X tc tc x tc x tc x tc x.

15: Will You Still Need Me Will You Still Feed Me When I'm Sixty Four. Tc x tc tc x tc tc tc x.

15: Hello Darkness My Old Friend, I've Come To Talk With You Again. Tc tc tc x x tc tc tc x.

15: You Go To My Head And You Linger Like A Haunting Refrain. X tc x x tc tc tc tc x x.

15: I'm Not Sick But I'm Not Well, And I'm So Tired, Cause I'm In Hell. X tc x tc x x tc x x tc x.

15: It's Only A Paper Moon Sailing Over A Cardboard Sea. X tc x tc x x tc x tc x.

15: What's With These Homies Dissing My Girl, Why Do They Gotta Front. Tc x tc tc x x tc x tc x.

15: Oh The Shark Has Pretty Teeth, Dear, And He Shows Them, Pearly White | Words Are Flowing Out Like Endless Rain Into A Paper Cup | Oh My Darling Oh My Darling Oh My Darling Clementine | But You Rode Upon A Steamer To The Violence Of The Sun.. Tc tc tc tc tc tc tc x.

15: Papa Was A Rodeo, Mama Was A Rock And Roll Band. Tc tc tc x tc tc tc x x.

15: Sitting On A Park Bench, Eyeing Little Girls With Bad Intent. Tc tc tc tc tc x x tc x.

15. Deep In My Heart I Do Believe We Shall Overcome Some Day. Tc x x tc x x tc tc tc x.


16: I Am Sitting In The Morning At The Diner On The Corner | We Don't Need Another Hero, We Don't Need To Know The Way Home. Tc tc tc tc tc tc tc tc.

16. I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General. X tc tc tc tc tc tc tc x.

16: I Guess It's Something In My Brain, I Need Whiskey To Ease The Pain. X tc tc tc x tc tc x tc x.

16: Richard Cory Went Home Last Night And Put A Bullet In His Head. Tc tc x tc x x tc tc tc x.

16: I Think I Spent The Dog Food Money, But He'll Love Me All The Same. X tc tc x x tc tc tc tc x.

16: God Save Our Gracious Queen, Long Live Our Noble Queen, God Save The Queen | I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight, It Must Have Been Something You Said. Tc x tc x tc x tc x tc x x.

16: In A World That Keeps On Pushing Me Around Gonna Stand My Ground. Tc x x tc tc tc x tc tc x.

16: Stand Beside Her And Guide Her Through The Night With A Light From Above. Tc tc x tc tc x tc x tc x.

16: While I'm Alone And Blue As Can Be, Dream A Little Dream Of Me. X tc x x tc x x tc tc x tc.

16: You Are Lost And Gone Forever, Dreadful Sorrow, Clementine. Tc tc tc tc tc tc tc x.

16: When You Wake You Shall Have Cake And All The Pretty Little Horses. Tc x x tc x x tc tc tc tc.

16: And Sure It Hurts But It Should Hurt Sometimes, We Don't See Eye To Eye. X tc x x tc tc x x tc tc x.


17: I Heard It Through The Grapevine Not Much Longer Would You Be My Baby. X tc tc tc tc tc tc tc tc.

17. Allons Enfants De La Patrie, Le Jour De Gloire Est Arrivé. X tc tc tc tc x tc x x tc x.

17: But I Like Being Free And That Makes Me An Idiot I Suppose. X x x tc x x x tc x x tc x tc x.

17: Shawty Get Down, Good Lord, Baby Got Em Open Up All Over Town. Tc tc tc tc tc tc x x tc x.

17. Apple bottom Jeans, Boots With The Fur, The Whole Club Was Looking At Her. Tc tc x x tc x x tc x tc x x.


18: Eleanor Rigby Picks Up The Rice At A Church Where A Wedding Has Been. Tc x tc tc x x tc x tc x tc x.

18: What's That You Say, Mrs. Robinson? Jolting Joe Has Left And Gone Away. X tc x tc tc x tc tc tc tc x.




21: Every Morning There's A Halo Hanging From The Corner Of My Girlfriend's Four Post Bed. Tc tc tc tc tc tc tc tc tc tc x.

21: All The Time, I'm Grateful All The Time, I'm Sexy And I'm Kind, I'm Pretty When I Smile. Tc x x tc tc x x tc tc x x tc tc x.


25. Here In My Car, I Feel Safest Of All, I Can Lock All My Doors, It's The Only Way To Live, In Cars. Tc x x tc tc x x tc tc x x tc tc tc x x x.

Georgian Folk Music

The country of Georgia has some great weird folk music. It often has pretty complex vocal polyphony. It's microtonal (and was even more microtonal before recent western influence). Some people will tell you it's based on a nearly equal heptatonic scale, i.e. 7-EDO. It doesn't sound like 7-EDO to me, but I haven't heard very much. Maybe I'm listening to the wrong sources.

So what is it? How is it tuned? I don't know. Let's figure it out.

Based on some spectral measurements in "Erkomaishvili Dataset: A Curated Corpus of Traditional Georgian Vocal Music for Computational Musicology" by (Rosenzweig, Scherbaum, Shugliashvili, Arifi-Müller, and Müller, 2020), I'd say a reasonable first start at describing the music would be a scale like this:

    [P1, M2, AsGrm3, P4, P5, M6, AsGrm7, P8] # [1/1, 10/9, 11/9, 4/3, 3/2, 5/3, 11/6, 2/1]

In relative degrees this is

    [10/9, 11/10, 12/11] * 9/8 * [10/9, 11/10, 12/11]

with the repeated tetrachord sized like

    [182c, 165c, 151c]

The scale, from the spectral analysis, clearly has a lower major second and major sixth than Pythagorean, and I've simply used the just tunings here. The scale also has neutral 3rds and 7ths. That's my first stab at it. Let's see what other have to say.

"The Georgian Musical System" (Malkhaz Erkvanidze, 2016) describes a Georgian scale that also has a repeated tetrachord structure. My introduction to Georgian folk music was a video of Malkhaz Erkvanidze singing in and directing a trio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVxD6NB8-CI) so I'm quite curious what he has to say about the genre.

The tetrachord he presents looks like this in cents:

    [172c, 154c, 172c]

Let's call this G for the Georgian tetrachord. This is a really weird tetrachord, especially since Georgians use harmonic instruments. If they had inharmonic bells and gongs it wouldn't be so crazy, but they sing and play strings and flutes and other harmonic instruments.

Let's try to figure out a just explanation for the tetrachord. The Georgian tetrachord looks like 7-EDO in-so-much as all of its steps are multiple of 171 cents, which the outer two intervals definitely are, but the middle step is not, and also the Erkvanidze source claims that in some scales the tetrachord appears twice alongside the usual Pythagorean acute major second at 9/8, so that we get an octave scale. How about these for just explanations:

[21/19, 12/11, 209/189] _ [173c, 151c, 174c]

[32/29, 35/32, 116/105] _ [170c, 155c, 172c]

I haven't worked much with 19-limit just intonation or beyond. I never thought there was much use for it. I hope Georgian music isn't 19-limit (or 29-limit). That would be kind of crazy. Or maybe it would be fun. I consider both of these tetrachords above to be perceptually indistinguishable from the Georgian tetrachord of Erkvanidze.

What's the just tuning of the full scale that has [G + AcM2 + G] as its tetrachord structure? If we use the 19-limit intonation of the G tetrachord, we get this scale:

    [1/1, 21/19, 252/209, 4/3, 3/2, 63/38, 378/209, 2/1]

If we use the 29-limit intonation, we get this scale:

    [1/1, 32/29, 35/29, 4/3, 3/2, 48/29, 105/58, 2/1]

I think the first one is ugly for its high complexity 3rd interval ratio and the second one is ugly for its high prime limit, but what can you do?

The paper goes on to describe some other scales that can be made with the Georgian tetrachord. We could have a scale that doesn't repeat at the octave like

    [G + G + AcM2 + G + G]

This spans 

    P4 + P4 + AcM2 + P4 + P4 = P8 + Grm7 = Grm14.

I almost wonder if I'm misunderstanding the paper's notation, such that the notated numbers aren't cents of frequency ratios, since the author simply uses [Bb, Eb] for the key signature in his staff notation, but that seems unlikely since the G tetrachord spans

    [172c + 154c + 172c] = 498c

just like a justly tuned P4.

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Here's an idea! The ratio of 172c to 154c is very close to 8/7. If we want an EDO to represent both of these frequency ratios, we can do fairly well if it has a step around

    172c/8 = 21.5 cents

or

    154c/7 = 22 cents.

This means 55-EDO or 56-EDO. I think 56-EDO makes more sense. I don't think Georgian folk music is actually based on 56-EDO, but 56-EDO does a good job of representing Erkvanidze's tetrachord.

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I can't help but wonder if the Erkvanidze came up with the Georgian tetrachord by saying, "our music sounds like 7-edo, but I want to describe it with a tetrachord structure; so which relative step of our scale can I mistune so that most of the frequency ratios are 1200/7 cents and one of them is 1200 * log_2(9/8) cents?". Maybe not. But it sure would parsimoniously explain the origin of a tetrachord that makes no sense unless you go to 19-limit.

On the other hand, I've heard that [C, F, G] is a very prototypical chord in Georgean music, i.e. Csus4 and Fsus2, and that kind of scans if they don't have particularly consonant 2nd, 3rd, 6th, or 7th intervals but they do have a nice P4 and P5.

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Looking at figure 12 in "Analysis of the Tbilisi State Conservatory Recordings of Artem Erkomaishvili in 1966" by Scherbaum et al 2017, I would have guessed that the Georgian scale had a neutral sixth and a major 7th  

    [P1, M2, n3, P4, P5, n6, M7, P8]

instead of a major 6th and neutral seventh that I saw in "Erkomaishvili Dataset: A Curated Corpus of Traditional Georgian Vocal Music for Computational Musicology". Also in this source the Georgian intonation of P4 is shown to be a little sharp, like 18 cents over just. We can resolve the weirdness about which of 6th and 7th degree is neutral pretty easily: Erkvanidze tells us that Georgian music uses both disjunct and conjuct scales with the tetrachord repeated, i.e.

    [G + T + G] or [G + G + T]

So the previous scale could be analyzed as

    [10/9, 11/10, 12/11] * [10/9, 11/10, 12/11] * 9/8

and everything works out. Except for the slightly sharpened fourth, but I don't really care about that.

I think my superparticular tetrachord, [10/9, 11/10, 12/11], thus explains spectral data from multiple ethnographic papers, and it looks nicer than the 19-limit Georgian chord, and it's not a tetrachord I've seen in Arabic or Turkish or Persian music. It has a [Major, neutral, neutral] sound like a Arabic or medieval Ottoman rast, but those have an intonation more like

    [9/8, 11/10, 320/297] _ [204c, 165c, 129c]

so my version of the Georgian tetrachord

    [10/9, 11/10, 12/11] _ [182c, 165c, 151c]

has more equal frequency ratio sizes. Not quite 7-EDO equal, but audibly much closer to equal than Rast.

Now, I'm not positive that this is closer to the intonation of Georgian folk music than Erkvanidze's tetrachord. But it's beautiful and I hope it is. We've got three consecutive super particular ratios from the harmonic series spanning a fourth. In the disjunct tetrachord, with 9/8 below the upper tetrachord, we've got four consecutive super particulars. Makam Saba has a similar thing going on 

    [11/10, 12/11, 13/12, 15/13]

but not including 10/9, and one of Ben Johnston's scales has a similar thing going on, but in reverse

    [12/11, 11/10, 10/9, 9/8, 16/15, 15/14, 14/13, 13/12]

But the harmonic series isn't in reverse, so why not do it forwards? I think it's a very beautiful tetrachord.

The next thing for me to do is to listen to some hundred year old recordings of Georgian folk music and compare the sound to both my Georgian tetrachord and Erkvanidze's Georgian tetrachord.

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Musical Wavelength Space

Suppose you've got a fretless string instrument and you want to place markers on the neck to help you find frequency ratios over open string frequencies. 

If you place a marker far from the sound hole so that 1/9 of the string is close to the tuning pegs and 8/9 of the string is free to vibrate when you pluck or bow or strum near the sound hole, the excited tone will have a frequency 9/8 over the frequency of the open string. If we put a marker there, I'll say that the marker is at 1/9 of the string length, meaning that 8/9 of the string is left free to vibrate.

The string length 8/9 and the frequency ratio 9/8 are reciprocal fractions, and this isn't a coincidence. Delightfully, the function that transforms 1/9 into 9/8 is also an involution, i.e. it can transform in both ways.
    y = x / (x - 1)
    frequency_ratio = (string_division) / (string_division - 1) 
    string_division = (frequency_ratio) / (frequency_ratio - 1)

If we divide the string into simple units, what simple frequency ratios do we get? Here's a little table

25.0 -> 25/24 _ 71c
24.5 -> 49/47 _ 72c
24.0 -> 24/23 _ 74c
23.5 -> 47/45 _ 75c
23.0 -> 23/22 _ 77c
22.5 -> 45/43 _ 79c
22.0 -> 22/21 _ 81c
21.5 -> 43/41 _ 82c
21.0 -> 21/20 _ 84c
20.5 -> 41/39 _ 87c
20.0 -> 20/19 _ 89c
19.8 -> 99/94 _ 90c
19.6 -> 98/93 _ 91c
19.5 -> 39/37 _ 91c
19.4 -> 97/92 _ 92c
19.2 -> 96/91 _ 93c
19.0 -> 19/18 _ 94c
18.8 -> 94/89 _ 95c
18.6 -> 93/88 _ 96c
18.5 -> 37/35 _ 96c
18.4 -> 92/87 _ 97c
18.2 -> 91/86 _ 98c
18.0 -> 18/17 _ 99c
17.8 -> 89/84 _ 100c
17.6 -> 88/83 _ 101c
17.5 -> 35/33 _ 102c
17.4 -> 87/82 _ 102c
17.2 -> 86/81 _ 104c
17.0 -> 17/16 _ 105c
16.8 -> 84/79 _ 106c
16.6 -> 83/78 _ 108c
16.5 -> 33/31 _ 108c
16.4 -> 82/77 _ 109c
16.2 -> 81/76 _ 110c
16.0 -> 16/15 _ 112c
15.8 -> 79/74 _ 113c
15.6 -> 78/73 _ 115c
15.5 -> 31/29 _ 115c
15.4 -> 77/72 _ 116c
15.2 -> 76/71 _ 118c
15.0 -> 15/14 _ 119c
14.8 -> 74/69 _ 121c
14.6 -> 73/68 _ 123c
14.5 -> 29/27 _ 124c
14.4 -> 72/67 _ 125c
14.2 -> 71/66 _ 126c
14.0 -> 14/13 _ 128c
13.8 -> 69/64 _ 130c
13.6 -> 68/63 _ 132c
13.5 -> 27/25 _ 133c
13.4 -> 67/62 _ 134c
13.2 -> 66/61 _ 136c
13.0 -> 13/12 _ 139c
12.8 -> 64/59 _ 141c
12.6 -> 63/58 _ 143c
12.5 -> 25/23 _ 144c
12.4 -> 62/57 _ 146c
12.2 -> 61/56 _ 148c
12.0 -> 12/11 _ 151c
11.8 -> 59/54 _ 153c
11.6 -> 58/53 _ 156c
11.5 -> 23/21 _ 157c
11.4 -> 57/52 _ 159c
11.2 -> 56/51 _ 162c
11.0 -> 11/10 _ 165c
10.8 -> 54/49 _ 168c
10.6 -> 53/48 _ 172c
10.5 -> 21/19 _ 173c
10.4 -> 52/47 _ 175c
10.2 -> 51/46 _ 179c
10.0 -> 10/9 _ 182c
9.9 -> 99/89 _ 184c
9.8 -> 49/44 _ 186c
9.7 -> 97/87 _ 188c
9.6 -> 48/43 _ 190c
9.5 -> 19/17 _ 193c
9.4 -> 47/42 _ 195c
9.3 -> 93/83 _ 197c
9.2 -> 46/41 _ 199c
9.1 -> 91/81 _ 202c
9.0 -> 9/8 _ 204c
8.9 -> 89/79 _ 206c
8.8 -> 44/39 _ 209c
8.7 -> 87/77 _ 211c
8.6 -> 43/38 _ 214c
8.5 -> 17/15 _ 217c
8.4 -> 42/37 _ 219c
8.3 -> 83/73 _ 222c
8.2 -> 41/36 _ 225c
8.1 -> 81/71 _ 228c
8.0 -> 8/7 _ 231c
7.9 -> 79/69 _ 234c
7.8 -> 39/34 _ 238c
7.7 -> 77/67 _ 241c
7.6 -> 38/33 _ 244c
7.5 -> 15/13 _ 248c
7.4 -> 37/32 _ 251c
7.3 -> 73/63 _ 255c
7.2 -> 36/31 _ 259c
7.1 -> 71/61 _ 263c
7.0 -> 7/6 _ 267c
6.9 -> 69/59 _ 271c
6.8 -> 34/29 _ 275c
6.7 -> 67/57 _ 280c
6.6 -> 33/28 _ 284c
6.5 -> 13/11 _ 289c
6.4 -> 32/27 _ 294c
6.3 -> 63/53 _ 299c
6.2 -> 31/26 _ 305c
6.1 -> 61/51 _ 310c
6.0 -> 6/5 _ 316c
5.9 -> 59/49 _ 322c
5.8 -> 29/24 _ 328c
5.7 -> 57/47 _ 334c
5.6 -> 28/23 _ 341c
5.5 -> 11/9 _ 347c
5.4 -> 27/22 _ 355c
5.3 -> 53/43 _ 362c
5.2 -> 26/21 _ 370c
5.1 -> 51/41 _ 378c
5.0 -> 5/4 _ 386c
4.9 -> 49/39 _ 395c
4.8 -> 24/19 _ 404c
4.7 -> 47/37 _ 414c
4.6 -> 23/18 _ 424c
4.5 -> 9/7 _ 435c
4.4 -> 22/17 _ 446c
4.3 -> 43/33 _ 458c
4.2 -> 21/16 _ 471c
4.1 -> 41/31 _ 484c
4.0 -> 4/3 _ 498c
3.9 -> 39/29 _ 513c
3.8 -> 19/14 _ 529c
3.7 -> 37/27 _ 545c
3.6 -> 18/13 _ 563c
3.5 -> 7/5 _ 583c
3.4 -> 17/12 _ 603c
3.3 -> 33/23 _ 625c
3.2 -> 16/11 _ 649c
3.1 -> 31/21 _ 674c
3.0 -> 3/2 _ 702c
2.9 -> 29/19 _ 732c
2.8 -> 14/9 _ 765c
2.7 -> 27/17 _ 801c
2.6 -> 13/8 _ 841c
2.5 -> 5/3 _ 884c
2.4 -> 12/7 _ 933c
2.3 -> 23/13 _ 988c
2.2 -> 11/6 _ 1049c
2.1 -> 21/11 _ 1119c
2.0 -> 2/1 _ 1200c

Now, there's no real reason to use decimal as string divisors. You could just as easily place a marker at 3.1 of a the string length as you could at 22/7 of the string length, but I wanted to see how this looked. I've also hidden any frequency ratios with numerators more than 99.

There are some conspicuous absences on this list. Like the justly tuned minor sixth, 8/5, or the justly tuned major seventh, 15/18, and the justly tuned minor seventh, 9/5. Our involution function certainly has less precision near the octave, so we might try using another decimal digit at the high end:

3.0 -> 3/2 _ 702c
2.96 -> 74/49 _ 714c
2.95 -> 59/39 _ 717c
2.92 -> 73/48 _ 726c
2.9 -> 29/19 _ 732c
2.88 -> 72/47 _ 738c
2.85 -> 57/37 _ 748c
2.84 -> 71/46 _ 751c
2.8 -> 14/9 _ 765c
2.76 -> 69/44 _ 779c
2.75 -> 11/7 _ 782c
2.72 -> 68/43 _ 793c
2.7 -> 27/17 _ 801c
2.68 -> 67/42 _ 809c
2.65 -> 53/33 _ 820c
2.64 -> 66/41 _ 824c
2.6 -> 13/8 _ 841c
2.56 -> 64/39 _ 858c
2.55 -> 51/31 _ 862c
2.52 -> 63/38 _ 875c
2.5 -> 5/3 _ 884c
2.48 -> 62/37 _ 894c
2.45 -> 49/29 _ 908c
2.44 -> 61/36 _ 913c
2.4 -> 12/7 _ 933c
2.36 -> 59/34 _ 954c
2.35 -> 47/27 _ 960c
2.32 -> 58/33 _ 976c
2.3 -> 23/13 _ 988c
2.28 -> 57/32 _ 999c
2.25 -> 9/5 _ 1018c
2.24 -> 56/31 _ 1024c
2.2 -> 11/6 _ 1049c
2.16 -> 54/29 _ 1076c
2.15 -> 43/23 _ 1083c
2.12 -> 53/28 _ 1105c
2.1 -> 21/11 _ 1119c
2.08 -> 52/27 _ 1135c
2.05 -> 41/21 _ 1158c
2.04 -> 51/26 _ 1166c
2.0 -> 2 _ 1200c

This got us our minor seventh, but not the other two chromatic 5-limit frequency ratios. It turns out those don't have finite decimal representations: A string divisor of 15/7 gives us a frequency ratio of 15/18, and a string divisor of 8/3 gives us a frequency ratio of 8/5.

I kind of like this? We've found a procedure which privileges a different set of ratios and intervals compared to normal just intonation.

It's not much of a difference: the 2.68 divisor gives us a frequency ratio of 67/42, which is a perceptually indistinguishable 5 cents flat of 8/5. The sounds are still there. But I still think it's a neat sound space. Maybe don't use the high precision divisors if you want a really distinct sound?

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