Sounds to me like some quickly written intro that some Yamaha proggrammer tacked on just to have some sort of lead-in
^^^ yeah, I'm going with this. It makes it sound a little more arranged. (fwiw, it sounds to me like just a vamp on the main chord, the relative minor, the five and back to the one.)
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 March 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
ha, thanks for the musicological analysis
(although it's mildly distressing to see the soundtrack to my childhood exposed as hackwork)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 16 March 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
you should try posting this on tipofmytongue on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/
it's great for mysteries like this.
― J. Sam, Monday, 16 March 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Our one has a massively arranged version of "Its the way that you love me" Paula Abdul.
― Mark G, Monday, 16 March 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
for what it's worth I recognise the little intro line in the original post but I can't place it either
― mcayrshire (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
And it seems that the PSS-270 actually has 'Just The Way You Are As It's Demo Tune' (...) Which I kind of should know, as I own one. Actually I just dug mine out and it randomly changes the preset every couple of bars during the demo - funny when it uses something like 'Machine Gun' or 'Fireworks'.
My grandparents had this and I would spend long periods of family gatherings listening to it loop around the presets. Had no idea it was a Billy Joel song until years later.
― bentelec, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link