hi!
i read a bit of a conversation that spoke about hearing music in your head. but first you listen to it, and then, after memorizing it, you "play it" around in your head.... that's actually natural to happen in human beings. but what i do is somewhat different. i play different things in my head and surch for a way to play them - generaly the piano. other times i just need to calm down (my ZEN moment, everyday) and click the piano keys by chance, following my intuition, until it lasts. generealy it last for 30 minutes... the worst part?? trying to remember the best part off these imrovisations... and make it a theme. why do we wake up with the lausiest music in our head sometimes, but then, never remember the best part off our own creations? i'm also lausy writing music. makes no sense for me... so i just have to carry a sound recorder all the time....
That's where I get most of the ideas for my music - from things that 'pop up' in my head!!
I find that I can hear music in my head and see pictures but getting them out is difficult as it's never as perfect in practice as in my mind. I hope that makes sense.
I come up with very complex and incredible lyrics for songs in my head that I have rarely ever been able to write on paper. One came close to it.
I compose music in my head to poems I read on long train journeys and I write it down a fortnight thereafter. My rule of thumb (created by myself of course) is that if I can recall the music it must be worthwhile. This ruke has never been tested however.
It may simply mean that my music is corny (cheesy).
One lives in self-delusion.
Michaelmas
Sorry to revitalize an old thread, but in the past I searched for others (on music composition forums) that could do this, but had no luck. Happy to finally find others that can too!
I can pretty much playback tracks from album collection, in my head, but I think that the playback quality is not so good, and sometimes some portions get cut out or looped too many times. Usually I have to get the first few notes though, to initiate the process. Lyrics are heard, but seem to be reduced to something not quite recognizable. There is always noise around me, so it is not something I do often.
For reasons unknown to me, on rare occasion I have entered sort of a state in which I can compose music on-the-fly using just about any musical instrument I have ever heard, with, I assume, whatever vocalist I want over the top. This can result in some rather eclectic combinations, but they are proably fairly cheesy, like the trash composed by the music instructor in Mr. Holland's Opus. I am uncertain how many simultaneous layers can be added, but I would estimate it at around 4 or 5. ...if only I could plug a mic into my head.
I almost naturally compose songs in my head. The instruments I use in my mind are usually guitars or the piano. But once I got a certain rhythm down and memorized, I can interchange the instrument with whatever I want in my head.
With allot of the songs that I have mentally composed, I usually make them into actual compositions. I have a thread in this music forum with a song that I composed which is based off a song that I mentally composed.
I am quite pleased to learn that there are others who listen to music in their head. I do it all the time. I was beginning to think I was crazy.... or maybe I am. Its what gets me through the grind day in and day out...
I am quite pleased to learn that there are others who listen to music in their head. I do it all the time. I was beginning to think I was crazy.... or maybe I am. Its what gets me through the grind day in and day out...
I hear complete organ works in my head sometimes, and have done for around 35 years. Unfortunately I seem either unwilling or unable to write them down, so a long time ago decided just to accept them as my own personal music that no-one else would ever hear.
I used to be able to listen to the entire 2 CD Phantom of the Opera entirely in my head.
Great musical recall. I probably still can, if I thought about it for a minute or two.
And almost everything else I've ever heard...
I however have GREAT difficulty getting anything back out of my head
(and I'm not original, either)
click the piano keys by chance, following my intuition, until it lasts. generealy it last for 30 minutes... the worst part?? trying to remember the best part off these imrovisations... and make it a theme. why do we wake up with the lausiest music in our head sometimes, but then, never remember the best part off our own creations? i'm also lausy writing music. makes no sense for me... so i just have to carry a sound recorder all the time....
That happens to me but i don't have a sound recorder. if i think of somthing then play it again over lots in my
head i hope it will eventually stay saved there until i find a piano and some writting tools.
And i can listen to entire songs and the most i can listen to at the one time is 3-4, but some are more difficult to play.
I can watch entire films in my head... but i rarely bother.