A downloadable soundtrack

You wake up in a mysterious elevator, seemingly with no way out. Trying to press any of the buttons only makes numbers appear on the display and you can't seem to find the code. And would someone turn off that stupid music?!

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Created for the Weekly Note Composing Jam (theme: elevator music)

DAW: Ableton Live

Plugins: Spitfire LABS Electric Piano, Massive X (NI), Session Drummer (NI), chipcrusher (Plogue)

Streaming link:

https://soundcloud.com/cattoratto/the-muzak-is-the-message?si=54084eb8bff14a5d9b...

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elevator_music_v4.mp3 3.8 MB

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Here are some clues if you get stuck. They go from less information all the way to giving the solution

Clue 1/2 There is a clue to the third number in the code in the thumbnail
Clue 3 The clue is the dots and dashes at the bottom right
Clue 4 Pay attention to the melody of the song
Clue 5 The rhythm of the melody is important
Clue 6 The rhythm of the melody is composed of SHORT sounds and LONG sounds
Clue 7 The melody can be divided into four equal sections composed of 5 notes
Clue 8 What kind of code uses short and long sounds?
Clue 9 Morse code uses short and long sounds
Clue 10 Each section of the melody encodes one number
Clue 11 The first section of the melody is short-short-long-long-long
Clue 12 G is one floor below 1
Clue 13 The ground floor can also be thought of as zero
Solution The full code is 2-5-7-G, where G = zero