March MeFiMu Challenge: Multiplication!
March 3, 2010 4:14 PM
Hi Mefi musicians, flapjax here. I received a suggestion just the other day that I want to go with for March. I'll simply reprint Mefier Mhead's enthusiastically worded letter verbatim:
I think a great idea for the music challenge would be to sing the multiplication table. There are high-priced multiplication table songs out there but they are overpriced garbage. You guys could do so much better! Think of all the kids you could help. Many kids, particularly learning disabled, learn the times table by listening to the multiplication table sung to music.
A few suggestions would be to maybe make it fun with a few rhymes here and there (like three times three is nine… a mighty fine design…), repetition, repetition, repetition, and go slow. You could even have one person do the twos, another the threes and so on.
So, have at it, y'all! Please tag your submission "multiplication" in addition to the usual "mefimusicchallenge"
posted by flapjax at midnite (16 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
posted by flapjax at midnite (16 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
Yeah Major, I'm not sure I can integrate this into my other functions. I wouldn't want to reduce it to a formula, and produce something derivative...
posted by InfidelZombie at 9:37 AM on March 4, 2010
posted by InfidelZombie at 9:37 AM on March 4, 2010
Question: can the song be concerned with only a portion of the multiplication tables? For example, when I was a kid, I found multiplying by 8 particularly difficult, so I'd love to do a song just on that.
posted by ocherdraco at 11:29 AM on March 4, 2010
posted by ocherdraco at 11:29 AM on March 4, 2010
There was a song about the nine times tables on Square One. First time I ever knew that trick about adding the digits.
posted by frecklefaerie at 11:46 AM on March 4, 2010
posted by frecklefaerie at 11:46 AM on March 4, 2010
can the song be concerned with only a portion of the multiplication tables?
Sure! Anything goes around here, ocherdraco! You could do a whole song about multiplying 8 by 2, for example. Call it Sweet Little Sixteen! Or how about a tape collage piece, call it Revolution # 9 x 9. Why not?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:45 PM on March 4, 2010 [1 favorite]
Sure! Anything goes around here, ocherdraco! You could do a whole song about multiplying 8 by 2, for example. Call it Sweet Little Sixteen! Or how about a tape collage piece, call it Revolution # 9 x 9. Why not?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:45 PM on March 4, 2010 [1 favorite]
Can we do irrational multiplication tables? e*π?
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 5:15 PM on March 4, 2010
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 5:15 PM on March 4, 2010
One times one is one, times one is one, times one is one... yeah!
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 5:55 PM on March 4, 2010
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 5:55 PM on March 4, 2010
You and me both, abc123. It was fun for a bit. Dibs on six, because the rhyme structure is mathematically built in from x1 through x8, and because I always wanted to write a six-y song...
posted by davejay at 6:10 PM on March 4, 2010
posted by davejay at 6:10 PM on March 4, 2010
One Times Anything Is Anything is an album name I can get behind
posted by davejay at 6:11 PM on March 4, 2010
posted by davejay at 6:11 PM on March 4, 2010
Does it count if we cover something from Here Come the 123s?
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 6:16 PM on March 4, 2010
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 6:16 PM on March 4, 2010
I always wanted to write a six-y song...
Davejay, you six-y motherfucker...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:20 PM on March 4, 2010
Davejay, you six-y motherfucker...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:20 PM on March 4, 2010
I haven't done a challenge in forever... this sounds like a winner though.
posted by ORthey at 3:21 PM on March 9, 2010
posted by ORthey at 3:21 PM on March 9, 2010
I no longer have dibs on six (not that I ever really did), because I'm distracted by SongFight's current "Robot Ninja Zombie Bear" title. Maybe after.
posted by davejay at 10:51 AM on March 11, 2010
posted by davejay at 10:51 AM on March 11, 2010
I'm struggling a bit with this, but I've been looking for an excuse to take a shot at "Seven And Seven Is" which is just about my favourite Love track. Would that count (forgive the unintentional pun...)?
posted by MajorDundee at 10:59 AM on March 11, 2010
posted by MajorDundee at 10:59 AM on March 11, 2010
....don't suppose anyone would be up for a collaboration on "Seven And Seven Is"? Needs real drums and a shouty Arthur Lee impressionist. I can handle the guitars (the drums would be an absolute bugger to programme, kind of rolling and tumbling with that brilliant hop/skip bit thrown in which, I presume, is in 7/4, hence the title).
posted by MajorDundee at 11:06 AM on March 11, 2010
posted by MajorDundee at 11:06 AM on March 11, 2010
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(I anticipate, of course, that your are at present reaching for the telephone to call an ambulance because your sides have in fact split on reading this..)
posted by MajorDundee at 1:20 AM on March 4, 2010