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Here's a neat way to try and identify that song you can hear in your head but don't know the name of. The Song Tapper lets you tap in the rhythm of the song on the spacebar of your computer, one tap for each syllable, and it will show you a list of matching songs.

I tried it out with the first song that popped into my mind, which to my eternal shame was, inexplicably, Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name". So I tapped in the part "shot through the heart and you're to blame, honey you give love a bad name", which when tapped in, looked something like this:



To Song Tapper's credit, the correct result did place at the top, though some interesting other potential matches came up, and it may be the first time in history that Simon & Garfunkel, Oingo Boingo and Bon Jovi came up together on the same web page. If the song you were hoping for doesn't come up in your attempt, you can add it to the database if you know the title.



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