After approximately an hour of restlessness, racking our brains to identify the riff Mike kept humming to himself, it finally came to me.
I doubt he could have chosen a more obscure riff from the Ghostbuster’s theme song to repeat on a loop, the short, ascending keyboard of the chorus. The song is difficult to identify lacking a reference to “I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghosts” but we managed to triumph for the sake of Tumblr blogging victory. There was a modicum of celebration, followed by more humming and chants of “Ghostbusters!”