Have any of the piano players among us ever noticed that the "Peter Gunn" riff sounds like the second half of the final bar of Hanon exercise number 28? When I started studying piano I noticed this right away. As Mancini played piano, I wonder if this was deliberate.
Have any of the piano players among us ever noticed that the "Peter Gunn" riff sounds like the second half of the final bar of Hanon exercise number 28?
The last bar hits only the white keys and does not resemble in any way the Gunn riff. The official Mancini piano sheet music has F F G F G#-A F Bb A. If you begin the riff at middle C it would be C C D C D#-E C F E.
The last bar hits only the white keys and does not resemble in any way the Gunn riff. The official Mancini piano sheet music has F F G F G-sharp-A F B-flat A.
You are deaf, old man. Learn how to transpose and then compare.
When the Hanon ends on the 1 and then you start repeating the riff from there, you get:
1-1-2-1-3-2-4-3
Virtually the same, except for for the note before the 4, and the grace note before the 3 in Peter Gunn.
As many piano players like to build riffs from such things, I think there is a good possibility the Mancini may have riffed on this exercise and that it may have inspired "Peter Gunn."
