<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Parks and Recreation theme The song was written by Gaby Moreno and Vincent Jones "The Pit", by Mouse Rat The song was performed by Chris Pratt in "Rock Show" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing these files? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> The producers hired BMI as music consultants to find a theme song . With less than three weeks until the show first aired, BMI sent out a mass e-mail to a slew of composers, giving them just five days to submit an entry . According to the terms of the submission request, the only compensated composer would be the winner, who would receive $7,500 in exchange for release of all rights to NBC . The winning entry was written by Gaby Moreno and Vincent Jones . Michael Schur said this theme song was chosen because producers wanted something that would immediately make the viewer associate the music with the series and the characters . He said Moreno and Jones' song "does a really good job of explaining what the town is like . (The) credits do a really good job of establishing it's just sort of a normal, every - day town in the middle of the country ." Due to its realistic mockumentary - style cinematography technique, Parks and Recreation does not use composed background music . </P> <P> Several songs were written for the show to be performed by Chris Pratt's character, Andy Dwyer, and his band within the show, Mouse Rat . Pratt sings and plays guitar in the band himself, while the drums are played by Mark Rivers, the guitar by Andrew Burlinson, and the bass guitar by Alan Yang, a screenwriter with the show . </P>

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