On the old Atari 2600 I would play a lot of Frogger. The opening theme, you may recall, went something like this:
(at 0:49 in this review)
However, if you held down the reset switch, that first note would go until you let it back up, which made it seem like a pickup note and made the melody sound more like this confusing version:
I remember holding down the switch for as long as I could. That's still the feeling I have for long pickup notes landing into the start of a melody. And maybe it has something to do with these retarded remixes I am so fascinated with.
Also, there is the matter of
Sunday, November 07, 2010
The first note of Frogger
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