TV Theme
The demo songs in the TV theme style. Each is described below, with the features it uses; About Demos lists every demo.
- Sitcom Theme:
forgot_your_name.yml - Creepy Harpsichord Theme:
mysterious_spooky.yml - Wistful Guitar Theme:
not_painless.yml - Action-Show Theme:
phoenix_foundation.yml - Novelty Saxophone Romp:
sax_reindeer.yml - Spy Theme:
spy_hunting.yml - Big-Band Police Theme:
tropical_51.yml - Voice-Led Piano Theme:
uphill_cops.yml
Sitcom Theme: forgot_your_name.yml
A warm sitcom theme in the manner of Cheers, with a melody of its own on clarinet, over a piano comping on the beats, a bass and soft drums.
examples/by_genre/tv_theme/forgot_your_name.yml · Eb major · 108 BPM · 2:58 · 7 scenes · 6 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Creepy Harpsichord Theme: mysterious_spooky.yml
A playful theme in the manner of The Addams Family, with a tune of its own: a harpsichord creeping up in half steps, finger snaps on two and four, a tuba bass and a church organ.
examples/by_genre/tv_theme/mysterious_spooky.yml · F major · 132 BPM · 3:02 · 8 scenes · 6 tracks
| chords | chains | progressions |
|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Wistful Guitar Theme: not_painless.yml
A gentle theme in the manner of MAS*H, with a melody of its own on flute: a Guitarify rolls, picks and strums a nylon guitar's chords, which a Progression takes round the circle of fifths in minor.
examples/by_genre/tv_theme/not_painless.yml · G minor · 90 BPM · 3:01 · 6 scenes · 8 tracks
| chords | chains | guitarify | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Action-Show Theme: phoenix_foundation.yml
A mid-eighties action-show theme in the manner of MacGyver, with a melody of its own on synth brass, over a pulsing synth bass, a guitar that a Guitarify plays on the backbeat, and keys broken into sixteenths over two octaves by an arpeggiator.
examples/by_genre/tv_theme/phoenix_foundation.yml · A major · 130 BPM · 2:57 · 8 scenes · 8 tracks
| chords | arps | chains | guitarify | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Novelty Saxophone Romp: sax_reindeer.yml
A breakneck romp in the manner of Yakety Sax: a tenor saxophone running in sixteenths over a honky- tonk piano, an oom-pah bass and a two-beat kit, with every run its own.
examples/by_genre/tv_theme/sax_reindeer.yml · Bb major · 144 BPM · 3:00 · 9 scenes · 7 tracks
| chords | chains | progressions |
|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Spy Theme: spy_hunting.yml
A late-fifties spy theme in the manner of Peter Gunn: a low guitar riff doubled by the bass, a surf beat, brass stabs and a tenor saxophone, every scene one chorus of a minor twelve-bar blues from a Progression. The riff and the tune are its own.
examples/by_genre/tv_theme/spy_hunting.yml · E minor · 112 BPM · 3:00 · 7 scenes · 7 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Big-Band Police Theme: tropical_51.yml
A big-band theme in the manner of Hawaii Five-0, with a fanfare of its own: pounding toms, timpani, strings racing in sixteenths, a brass section and trombones answering.
examples/by_genre/tv_theme/tropical_51.yml · C minor · 150 BPM · 2:59 · 8 scenes · 10 tracks
| chains | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Voice-Led Piano Theme: uphill_cops.yml
A gentle theme in the manner of Hill Street Blues, with a melody of its own on solo piano. The chords come from a Progression and then a Voice leading generator, which voices each chord nearest the one before, so that the chords glide.
examples/by_genre/tv_theme/uphill_cops.yml · D major · 76 BPM · 2:57 · 5 scenes · 7 tracks
| chords | chains | ties | progressions |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |