The Elephant Never Forgets (El Chavo del Ocho) - Piano full version

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One of the early pioneers of electronic music, Jean Jacques Perrey popularized, along with Wendy Carlos, the use of the Moog synthesizer to create electronic-based music, usually covering other popular songs, or writing their own compositions. One of the albums that took this novel synthesized sound to new heights was "Moog Indigo," the 9th studio album by Perrey, released in 1970. The album contains some electronic covers of famous classical compositions by Paganini, Mozart, and Beethoven, among others.
Based on Beethoven's Turkish March, written in 1809 for his "Six Variations" (Op.76), and later in 1811 for a play called "The Ruins of Athens" (Op.11), "The Elephant Never Forgets" is the 9th track of Perrey's "Moog Indigo" album, capitalizing and improving upon previous synthesized material. Immortalized further in the opening theme of "El Chavo del Ocho," a Mexican TV sitcom created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños (Chespirito), the song begins with a few exotic, inviting, synthesized percussion sounds, followed by a short intro and the main "Turkish March" theme. And here is Perrey's first improvement: a catchy walkdown bass that empowers the dynamic procession-based theme of the march (measures #3-{#6,#9}). The second theme continues as in the original composition by changing to a 6th minor chord before capitalizing into a triumphant dominant-base chord sequence (measures #7,#8). Then the third theme follows with a 3rd major chord modulation to the 6th minor chord (measures #10,#11), as in the original score, but now Perrey adds his second improvement: a catchy 2nd major to dominant chord modulation sequence (measures #12,#13), which completes the main sections of the march on a grandeur scale. At this point, Perrey could just repeat the sections and call it a day. However, as if that were not enough, Perrey adds his third and final original improvement to the score by introducing a novel 4th theme in flamboyant "wah wah" style and using a 4th major chord (measures #23-#31) - adding some diminished, augmented, and other modern chord progressions to the mix, it becomes an effective bridge to connect to the initial themes, now repeated two semitones higher using a 2nd major chord. Finally, a walkup bass leads to the song ending which is similar to the intro, but fading out eventually.
Now regarding my piano version: I did my best to mimic the catchy percussion part of Perrey's version by adding half staccato notes in the bass after each beat, a popular technique used in ragtime and other piano solo styles. I also added a few variations of my own: a faster 2nd theme using 8th notes (measures #20,#21), and a syncopated 3rd theme (measures #41-#44) which is btw absent in Perrey's version - the 3rd theme doesn't repeat after the bridge. Finally, I added a catchy chromatic five-note descending sequence in the 4th theme (bridge) which imho adds a nice touch and variety (measures #24,#28). Last but not least, I added my own suggested fingering which is how I play it live - note that this assumes a thumb-to-pinky range of at most a 10th major (1 octave + 2 tones) in some passages; for shorter hands, the score would need to be modified in a few minor sections. Note that both the original Beethoven's and Perrey's arrangements are in the key of Bb Major. I chose the key of C Major instead for easier playing, especially when modulating to F Major at the bridge and D Major right after, and because that's how I always started playing my incipient adaptation years ago - I didn't know it was in Bb Major at the time. Regarding playing complexity, all sections are probably beginner to intermediate, except the bridge, which is probably intermediate to advanced - your mileage might vary, of course. Anyway, I hope you enjoy playing my piano version as much as I enjoyed adapting it!
Hasta siempre Chavito!
--LP

[@mattipolarbear6739]

Epico

[@BrayanTehAnimator]

We Came here for el Chavo🗿

[@mariliaandaluz5238]

Entonces les vamos a llamar "El Beethoven del Ocho".

[@denisseblanch3736]

Muy bueno demasiado bueno para ser verdad😂😂😂

[@mariliaandaluz5238]

Pero originalmente está en Si Bemol Mayor.

[@maxnunezruiz9734]

That Song is Originally from El Chavo Del Ocho. For Some Reason I don’t know why did People put this Song to The Elephant Never Forgets and that’s not True. This Song is from El Chavo Del Ocho But still I like the Song 👍

[@mattipolarbear6739]

que?

[@maxnunezruiz9734]

@@mattipolarbear6739 que eso cancion es mas de Chavo Del Ocho

[@tlaloc9624]

el chavo used this song, not the other way around

[@ElChavo1128]

​@@mattipolarbear6739 esta cancion es mas conocida como el Chavo, no como la tema original "The Elephant Never Forgets" (El Elefante Nunca Olvida)

[@mekuakiaronbienfeo8693]

@@ElChavo1128 enrealidad es la marcha turca de beethoven, y si, la marcha turca era un meme entre los musicos en ese momento casi, todos hacian una