Rachmaninoff's music was in the public domain in the United States at that time, so Carmen thought no copyright existed on it, but it was still protected outside the U.S.

He needed to put this into a song, and after listening to Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto, a piece famously used to underscore the 1945 British film Brief Encounter, he adapted the melody of its second movement to write the verse.

Background and composition Īccording to Carmen, he first wrote the solo part of the song, writing four bars at a time, eventually completed the interlude after two months. The slide guitar solo was performed by studio guitarist Hugh McCracken.

The chorus was taken from the song ' Let's Pretend', which Carmen wrote and recorded with the Raspberries in 1972. The verse is based on the second movement ( Adagio sostenuto) of Sergei Rachmaninoff's circa 1900–1901 Piano Concerto No. If you're looking to create a new and unique project, this site could be a great resource for you.' All by Myself' is a song by American singer-songwriter Eric Carmen released in 1975. You can upload and download sounds to and from the database under the same Creative Commons license and interact with fellow artists. You can also sort the sounds by number of downloads to easily see the most popular ones. It aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, and other sounds released under Creative Commons licenses that allow for reuse.įreesound provides interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing you to browse them using keywords, tag, location, and more. Each sound carries one of three licenses, some that require attribution or no commercial use.įreesound is a little different from the other resources on this list because instead of sheet music or downloadable songs, it offers a huge database of hundreds of thousands of sounds: birdsong, thunderstorms, voice snippets, etc.

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