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    <title>Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend - Transcription</title>

    <description>Transcription of Robyn's song "Call Your Girlfriend"</description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music transcription</category>

    <image>robyn-call-your-girlfriend-sample.png</image>

    <series order="1">2022 music project</series>

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<p>

    This is my first "music project" of 2022. After seeing 

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPA3I7QeLE8">this video</a> of Taran

    Killam re-enact <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ImxY6hnfA">Robyn's

    music video</a> of <em>Call Your Girlfriend</em>, I became mildly obsessed.

    Let there be no doubt that it is a certified banger.

</p>

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    <caption>Taran Killam of SNL vs. Robyn of Sweden</caption>

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<p>

    And since for 2022 I wanted to try and do some kind of

    <glacius:link series="2022 music project">music project</glacius:link>

    every week I figured why not kick it off with a bang(er). So I decided to transcribe

    <em>Call Your Girlfriend</em> in all its glory.

</p>

<p>

    Like I generally do when doing casual transcriptions, I used

    <a href="https://frescobaldi.org/">Frescobaldi</a>, which is a

    <a href="https://lilypond.org/">Lilypond</a> editor.

</p>

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    glacius:thumbnail="robyn-call-your-girlfriend-frescobaldi-screenshot-thumb.jpeg"

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    <caption>Frescobaldi in action</caption>

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<p>

    I don't play/learn stuff by ear as much as I used to, and I'm definitely not as good at

    it as I once was. I ended up having to use YouTube's playback speed feature to play

    it back at 0.5x speed to figure out the pretty sweet synth solo in the middle.

    But otherwise I just listened to the song a million times and figured out the notes

    on my guitar.

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    <caption>Transcription sample</caption>

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<p>

    Downloads:

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<ul>

    <li>

        <glacius:link file="robyn-call-your-girlfriend.pdf">Transcription (PDF)</glacius:link>

    </li>

    <li>

        <glacius:link file="robyn-call-your-girlfriend.ly">Lilypond source</glacius:link>

    </li>

</ul>