View Poll Results: Do you constantly hear music playing in your head?
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Yes, only music I've heard before
4 5.80% -
Yes, both my own musical ideas and music I've heard before
49 71.01% -
Yes, only my musical ideas
1 1.45% -
No
15 21.74%
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One of my favorite forms of musical meditation is to put on a drone and just play a note or two against it, focusing on just making a beautiful sound.
Originally Posted by Greywolf
I have a tanpura app on my phone that's just perfect for this.
It's also wonderful for non-meditative practice of scales and modes. You can really hear the sound of a particular scale when it's placed against a drone...but that's a different conversation for a different day.
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01-24-2023 12:31 PM
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You see, you've all lapsed back into contentment... you don't question!
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I haven’t. I want cake. Originally Posted by ragman1
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Dammit, man. I didn't even have to click on it and it's stuck in my head. Originally Posted by Stevebol
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Haha. It's the lyrics. What a great story. Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Question for a Friday: what is Naatu?
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Yes I do, and it's really annoying because I can't hear the voices in my head, and I keep missing important instructions.
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I often hear music playing in my head, which inspires me; sometimes to just sing. My real affliction is that for me, there is no such thing as background music. When I hear music, I tend to not listen to who I'm with and soak in the music. I don't dare play music while I'm trying to do accurate work.
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Only in an elevator :-)
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Daily, sometimes random things or an ear worm I recently heard, but most often they’re tunes I been working on. It’s to the point that the Mrs. can tell!
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Always, for the past 5 decades.
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Last night I dreamt I was singing ATTYA. In tune.
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I only hear it when I choose to, but it's always there.
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Not when I take my daily 4 mile hike. It took me a few years to get to a meditation type state while walking, where one shut out "internal dialog" and just takes in what is around them.
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Once I posed that question to my bassist friend, .... who, btw, is the best bass player I know, anybody who ever heard him immediately wanted him in band and so on ... his response was: "I never hear anything in my head, it's only when I take bass I just know what to play.
Truly remarkable player. Once he played some wedding, got so drunk that he could not keep standing. So, he was sitting/ lying on the floor, back leaned on amp, still drinking beer with bottle in his right hand, playing bass only by left hand taping, sounding perfect, not missing a beat ... If you believe it, with silence in his head.
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Sorry I haven't had time to read all responses.
Yes I hear music in my head pretty much every waking hour. Some of it is stuff I play on the car stereo or off my iPhone at home. Occasionally it's stuff I play on guitar. Otherwise it's just semi-random songs I have heard over the years.
For instance, I saw a thread title Darn That Dream, so guess what I'm replaying in my head right now.
If I ever subconsciously don't think of music, I start to notice my tinnitus a lot more. So it's kind of a choice--listen to music that isn't there or listen to a very high C note droning continuously. (Or maybe the voices in my head, but let's not digress for now.)
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Keeping one's head filled to the brim with music can prevent incursions of political rhetoric from Democrats (Liberals) and Republicans (Conservatives). However, an occasional tune-up is recommended.
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It's normal for me. A lot of musician experience this, and try to basically harness it and use it to help them be creative and become better artists/players.
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I’m so relieved I’m not the only one.
when I was younger and in trouble I got sent to a therapist and he asked if music got stuck in my head. I never thought it was abnormal. I never cared except when it’s a bad tune stuck rolling around my brain.
I knew I wasn’t crazy. lol
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