cdennyb said
That seems to be only part of it... seems like it's considerably longer than that and there should be a space (rest) in there for a double hand clap or other signatory noise.

Sure we are talking about the same music?  See the subtitle of my post: NOT the theme song.  On youtube, episodes 6 and 8 (at least) play the music in question when showing the outside of the house, after the theme song.

Yet you may be right that there is some more to the tune I wrote, longer I mean, but no hand claps, unless I am wrong.

The version of the theme song at the end of the show is hilarious with its sound effects.

Okay I'll go first.  Here is a recording I made of me playing the tune. 

I used some very sophisticated recording technology: I plugged into my laptop a microphone that I got free with a Dell computer ten years ago.  Then I set the microphone on top of the violin and started playing (and recording using Audacity).

Maybe if I can do better later, I will post another take of it.

cdennyb said
The curse of learning tunes by ear is that you get really frustrated trying to read music because it doesn't go quick enough.

When I learn by ear, I always want to write down the positions that have sharps or flats so that I know the key, so I can practice the scale in that key to get my fingers and ears into the habit of that key.  And I want to know the key anyway, hoping/trusting that it will give some understanding.  One place to write down the sharps and flats is in a score using the music program.

If I don't know what a piece sounds like, I can learn that from the sheet if the piece is not too hard.  For me, reading an unknown piece is slow going because I am not much of a sight reader (yet anyway). Learning from the sheet alone is usually slower than learning it when I already know what it sounds like and I don't have the sheet.

One thing about reading and writing is that you don't have to even though you know how.

Fiddlestix said
Ok, that song was played in the beginning and all through the show, after the opening theme song...

Yes, I think there is more to it than what I played and what they play at the beginning of the two episodes I looked at.  I would like to find the rest of it.

How about you giving it a play, stix?

EJKiszenia said
Oh, I remember this piece!  In college, we played "The Addam's Family Suite" and it had this part in it!  Although our Bassoon player had the melody in bass clef. 

You can hear a xylophone in it, and I think I heard an oboe or something in a high part following along with the bassoon.  It is played with a lot of variations, so I think maybe they adapted it to whatever scene it was used in.

Mad_Wed said
Thanks for the notes, RosinedUp! I like this melody too. I'll definitely try it =)

You're welcome.  I'd really like to hear you play it. 

The staccatos make the bowing a challenge, for me anyway.  My first attempt above wasn't really true to the staccatos.  I can play it better now.  My bow tends to bounce.  I think my A and E strings dug into my cheap soft bridge when I was practicing this, so I need to make a new one!

I think you are a pretty serious student, so I will quiz you a little.  What mode would you say this piece is in?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.....cale#Modes

Here is what it looks like to me.

The version with the key signature E starts and ends on A.  The piece is at rest and calm when it reaches A, so A is the tonic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.....28music%29

In Ionian mode, the tonic is the same as the key signature, but in this case the tonic (A) is three scale degrees above the key signature (E). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.....ale_degree

That is, the tonic A is a fourth relative to the key signature E. 

Then see the table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.....cale#Modes and look for the Roman 4: "IV".

So it is in Lydian mode.