Here's one from my PUI files: "I Sustain"

[d03nut]

You know what's "deep" and has longer sustain than rosewood?

 

My skull. Or the "hollow" of my skull. Whichever you prefer.

 

Often times, long after I've stopped playing, I can still hear notes, lines, melodies and "memories" thereof in my head. Sometimes I wish I found me an "off" button. It's really not practical during the day.

 

They say men think about sex several times/hr (or was it minute). For me, you can add music to that figure. Which leaves me little time to think of anything else.

 

Politics, for one.

 

Lets talk "bout" sex/tone baby

[Dan Hall]

 

You know what's "deep" and has longer sustain than rosewood?   My skull. Or the "hollow" of my skull. Whichever you prefer.   Often times, long after I've stopped playing, I can still hear notes, lines, melodies and "memories" thereof in my head. Sometimes I wish I found me an "off" button. It's really not practical during the day.   They say men think about sex several times/hr (or was it minute). For me, you can add music to that figure. Which leaves me little time to think of anything else.   Politics, for one.   Lets talk "bout" sex/tone baby

[JasmineTea]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgnVaolzxmM

[guitarist21]

This is going to sound weird but I hear stuff in my head all the time. Like whole songs that I'm unconsciously making up. I usually jot down the jist of them on scratch paper.

Ellen

[JasmineTea]

This is going to sound weird but I hear stuff in my head all the time. Like whole songs that I'm unconsciously making up. I usually jot down the jist of them on scratch paper. Ellen

Same here, constant music, but I rarely write them down. I've considered carrying a small tape recorder around with me so I can hum the melody and speak the chords and any other important info into it for later use. Got the tape recorder, but for some reason never used it.

[guitarist21]

Got the tape recorder, but for some reason never used it.

 

 

I got a little tape recorder for the very same purpose but it was too bulky to carry around in my pocket. Then I just gave up and started writing down what I was singing in my head. I have notebooks from seventh grade until now and the backs of papers and margins are filled with staves of music that circled my head. Sometimes it was stuff I made up and sometimes it was, for instance, stuff we were playing in orchestra or a selection from "Brown Eyed Girl" I arranged for four trombones.

 

Ellem

[JasmineTea]

On the other hand I gotta say there's something to be said for letting a song blossum on it's own over time, whether in one's mind or otherwise.

Say I learn a song, and all week long while I'm working, the song pops up from time to time in my mind, I think about the various parts and stuff, and by the end of the week when I get a chance to play the song again it's evolved into something quite different than it was.

Or, say you record a song and then put it on the shelf for a year. When you hear it again a year later it'll sound better than when it was new.

[JasmineTea]

I got a little tape recorder for the very same purpose but it was too bulky to carry around in my pocket. Then I just gave up and started writing down what I was singing in my head. I have notebooks from seventh grade until now and the backs of papers and margins are filled with staves of music that circled my head. Sometimes it was stuff I made up and sometimes it was, for instance, stuff we were playing in orchestra or a selection from "Brown Eyed Girl" I arranged for four trombones. Ellem

I sometimes write stuff down, unfortunately (stuborn) I can't read music so I've had to invent my own means of notation. Most of the time when I find these old notes I can just about conjure up what the original idea was, or get the jist. I usualy just name the chords and put the number of beats-per-chord by it, maybe some other reference to jog my memory as to what the meter was. Then, after it floats around in my belongings for a few years and I find it again, the chords remind me what the melody was.

 

One song comes to mind: I've re-written the bridge at least five times because I could never remember it...but I think the last one is gonna stick.

[riffmeister]

Same here, constant music, but I rarely write them down. I've considered carrying a small tape recorder around with me so I can hum the melody and speak the chords and any other important info into it for later use. Got the tape recorder, but for some reason never used it.

 

 

 

LOL! Same here. Except I never got the tape recorder. Funny, but the music sounds so grandioso and memorable in my head. Then, like 30 min later, it's completely gone because some other thought has displaced it and I can't get it back. Makes you wonder how the great composers like Beethoven did it. They must have been speed writers.

[Cripes]

I'm willing to bet, d03nut, that everyone here can echo your words. During the (business) day I seldom have a musical thought in my head. My mind is always a-clutter with the many details of my highly-detailed, fast-paced job. Prior to and after, however, I'm a mental warbler.

This past weekend I jammed for about 5 hours with my boss. For all matters acoustic he's a newbie. I set him up playing strummed chord progressions. We play exactly the same thing for the time it takes him to really feel it and then I begin to embellish it with fingerpicking leads all around what he's strumming. It was just too right and everything came out of my head around the chords, patterns and progressions he was doing. He asked me how in hell I came up with that stuff but what he didn't know was I had that all cooked up and ready to serve many times over in my head. I just never have anyone to jam with and that, I think, is the key to unlocking the vault. It doesn't always come together like it did in that session but there's usually something good that gets sparked.

I do also record riffs and pieces that might be stitched together and burn them onto CDs. Then I will listen to them on the road to and from work. I vocalize melodies or leads that will work while listening. They stay with me when I do that.

[smatel]

LOL! Same here. Except I never got the tape recorder. Funny, but the music sounds so grandioso and memorable in my head. Then, like 30 min later, it's completely gone because some other thought has displaced it and I can't get it back. Makes you wonder how the great composers like Beethoven did it. They must have been speed writers.

 

 

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