[net.music] What's the 3rd note of the bass line of "Ghostbusters"?

sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman) (11/21/84)

OK, this is driving me crazy. By now we are all intimately familiar with the
repetetive bass line that permeates this piece (and that Huey Lewis thinks
is a ripoff of "I Want a New Drug", but that's another story).

Now I had always thought that this part went something like -

 		  (bass clef, key of C)
		(hope you can read this)
                                                           
                                                           
                   /|                                      
                  / |        b o   o                       
-----|-----|-----|--|---------|---|-----------------+
     |     |     |  |  o  |   |   |               | |      
-----|-----|-----|--|-|---+---|---|-----o----o----+ |
     |     |     | o  |   |   |   |    |    |    .| |      
-----|-----|-----|----|---+---|---|----|----|-----+ |
    o     o     o     |   |   |   |    |    |    .| |      
----------------------|---+------------|----|-----+ |
                          |            |    |     | |      
---------------------------------------|----|-------+
                                                           

Well, I finally bought the soundtrack album so that I can do an arrangement
of this for the university's pep band, and the more I listen to this the more
confused I get.  At times I could swear that the 3rd note is not
really a 'C' but is rather a 'D' or a 'Bb'.  'C' makes the most sense
musically but if you listen to this it doesn't quite sound right.
At least it doesn't to me.  Maybe I'm going nuts.

Anyways if anyone out there has a strong opinion one way or the other
on this obviously very important issue please mail me.  Oh yes,  I'm
listening to it as I type this and now I'm even more confused, I could
swear that sometimes the last note isn't an 'F' but a 'G'.....

Steve Hayman
Arranger-in-Chief
University of Waterloo Warriors Band
watmath!watcgl!sahayman

chris@laidbak.UUCP (Chris Granner) (11/23/84)

The third note (according to your key-of-C, 8/4 scheme) is E-flat, or D-#,
depending on the augmentation or diminution of your personality...other
than that, you've got it.

-cg (Chris G. @laidbak, LAI, Westmont, IL)