Friday, October 21, 2016

The Apple in Stereo's "Dance Floor"

Last week I listened to the Apples in Stereo's Travellers in Space and Time, and I thought a part in "Dance Floor" sounded pretty easy to figure out, so I did that.  I'm still not really sure what instrument it's played on, but I think it's a synthesized string instrument.  A couple days after I figured it out, I realized that it would be pretty easy to notate too, and while I was doing that, I also figured out a part in a higher register:

(click the image to enlarge it)

I feel I should draw attention to the fact that this begins on a downbeat.  Either there isn't a way to make that more obvious in the program I use or I don't know how to do it, so when I edited the image, I just took the half rest from the first bass clef measure and used it to replace the whole rest in the first treble clef measure.  (Although now the notes in that first bass clef measure are off-center).

This is the figure as it appears at the beginning of the song.  When it recurs, some of the four-measure phrases are either omitted or repeated, but the notes remain the same in each occurrence.