B&BH air-guitar-jammin' "daa da da" pronunciation guide

Sep 3, 1993, 12:56 AM ET2 posts by 2 postersalt.tv.beavis-n-butthead
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Several people here (myself included) have asked about songs Beavis and Butthead are air-guitar jammin' to, like "Iron Man". Since it's hard to convey these tunes via ASCII text, I've developed a rudimentary "daa da da" pronunciation guide.

It works like this: "da" is a short note. "DA" is a short stressed note. "daa" is a long note, and "DAA" is a long stressed note. "da"s separated by hyphens represent quick successions of notes.

For example,

daa da da-da-da, DA-DA-DA-DA-DA daa da da is Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", and daa daa daa DA-DA-DA, da-da-da-da-da daa da da da is Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker".

Hope this guide helps. Like I said, it's kind of rudimentary, and if anyone can come up with something better, they're most welcome to do so.

Michael Davis [email]

I think you have to put some vertical spacing in these for them to make any sense and give some way to describe the melody. I think it was Michael that asked about a certain song, and the answer given was Paranoid, which was wrong, because I also (I think!) was wondering about the exact same song, which goes like this:

DAA DAA

             da da                             da da
                   da                                da
                     da                                da
  daa                        da-da-da-da

Iron Man, therefore, would go:

                       da  da  da
                         da  da
              da-da                     da da
      daa  daa                    da da
 daa

In case you haven't figured it out yet, read left to right, higher notes are above lower ones. More horizontal space between "da"'s means a longer pause.

So now who can tell me what the unknown song really is?

In disbelief I actually spent the time typing this in,

Jeff Gray Intel Corporation "My wife won't let me date..." [email] - Howard Stern Opinions mine, not Intel's (duh)