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Musicians, how would you bypass this challenge?
No previous knowledge is required of the show I got this from. It's from today's episode of The Amazing Race.
Contestants in a room had to listen to a gramophone playing three different pieces from the piano.
They go to the another room to find a room of over 12 grand pianos each with pianists playing (repetitively) a single piece each, all pianists playing different pieces. You must match the pieces you heard outside of the room with the correct ones being played inside the room.
How would you make it easier for yourself to determine the corresponding piece? According to the contestants, the more they were in the room, the more all the pieces in the room started to sound similar.
The three pieces:
Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"
Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade,"
Tchaikovsky's "Troika"
So in the grand scheme of things, Pictures was probably just "The Great Gate of Kiev", Scheherazade was probably just "The Young Prince and Princess theme" and Troika ... was exactly that, and not "The Seasons"
Each of the pieces are unique enough that picking them out of a dozen tunes should be a finger snap, if you have enough musical where-with-all.
... I'd say Troika would be the difficult one to get, but focusing on the melody in the left hand, and the "sleigh bells" in the right would be key to this one.
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