Getting inside the mind of ... WPT theme music composer.

[thylacine]

Quiz: how did the composer of the Travel Channel WPT program theme music take the topic of `poker' and turn it into the WPT tune? What's the common thread between poker and this WPT tune?

[Bignutz]

Common theme: Money. Those guys get it for playing, he gets it for making that song.

[thylacine]

Reasonable answer but not what I was thinking of. The question is (given that the composer was getting paid to come up with some tune) what was the composer thinking that led to coming up with that specific WPT theme tune?

[barrett]

Do you know the answer to the question or are we all just speculating?

I've always thought that the WPT set, lighting, and theme music resembles Who Wants to be a Millionaire. All of these elements are designed to build an aura of excitement.

[thylacine]

I'm speculating, but I think the composer went through a specific thought process in going from what the composer knew of poker to the specific type of choice of notes in the WPT theme tune.

I may post my `answer' eventually.

[Sloats]

Don't most composers just freebase some coke and then write down all of the noise that goes on in their head? (or was that just Mozart?)

[barrett]

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I may post my `answer' eventually.

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Please do.

[Cosimo]

Grinding? Porn musack? That theme annoys me.

[thylacine]

The WPT theme music uses a PENTAtonic scale, i.e. just the FIVE black notes on a keyboard (or translate it up or down, e.g. up 6 semitones the tune goes A.CDEGAC.ADC..A.).

POKER --> FIVE cards --> PENTAtonic scale

Got it?

Oh well, never mind.

[DonWaade]

I agree with Barret. Very much like Millionaire or Weakest Link

[webiggy]

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The WPT theme music uses a PENTAtonic scale, i.e. just the FIVE black notes on a keyboard (or translate it up or down, e.g. up 6 semitones the tune goes A.CDEGAC.ADC..A.).

POKER --> FIVE cards --> PENTAtonic scale

Got it?

Oh well, never mind.


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So does that mean that most rock n' roll composers are poker player since most are writing with pantotonic scales as a basis. Probably accidental as most modern music is based on a pantatonic scale. But what do I know, I'm a drummer and I like the Residents.

[Duke]

I can't tell if that next note is an A sharp or a B flat.

Get another one wrong and we'll all be flat.

And another more obscure pull...

1632, is that a year or something?

No, it's your top score on Pole Position.

Damn I love that movie.

~D

[baggins]

interesting note on the pentatonic scale.

not all modern music is based on the pentatonic scale. it figures quite heavily in a lot of blues-based rock, but modern music is more modal. the pentatonic scale is just an Aeolian or natural Minor scale missing the 2nd and 6th scale degrees.
I can't recall the actual WPT theme right now, so I really can't comment on the exact tune.