music in the head

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Sometimes a complete musical phrase comes together in my mind but when I translate it with an instrument its usually a little different. Ive never finished a song in my head. Maybe some day I could have the skills to do that.

thanks everyone, really interesting.

Before I'm sleeping, I come up with really good music in my head.. then I only remember the lyrics the next day!! ! Why can't it be a real song?

I have it when I wake up, there is a melody in my head. Sometimes it's a song I know and sometimes it's a new melody. I can also hear music in my dreams. It's not that there is music playing but I hear it as part of the dream like in a film.

Sometimes I can come up with something, but it takes AGES and it's usually only 20 seconds long at the most.

I can barely read notes/tablature, unfortunately.

That is something I hope to change in the near future.

Edit: Songs already written by other artists, I can play perfectly in my head. Most of the time.

Also, I can play bits and pieces of them completely by ear.

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Have a very, very limited ability to hear any song at all in my head. At the same time, over the years, have learned to play the piano to the point of being able to use a simplified Fake Book and reproduce parts of the songs listed.

At the same time, I do recognize songs which I have heard before - especially songs with no human voices. When a human voice is part of the song, it depends on the speed the musician uses. If the musician sings rapidly, I often can catch most of it; if the singer extends parts of words (opera) and so on, I tend to miss most of it.

Today, for me, part (not all) of the explanation is central auditory processing disorder (CAPD)/a glitch in aspects of working memory/short term memory/related areas.

I am able to compose, on paper, very short, simple songs of thirty seconds (or less) but it's closer to a very simple melody (right hand - piano) with zero chords (left hand - piano).

My natural attention span is so short that I could not learn Morse Code (ADHD Inattentive including central auditory processing disorder) dots and dashes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_the_brain

I have met a musician who had the ability to sit down in a living room and write music for about a ten piece band as easily as one would write a letter to a friend. I've met a (non-)musician who purchased an electronic keyboard for about $200 and in less than one week, wrote a one minute song. The (non-)musician did have piano lessons as a child.

I tend to feel that great ease with music is a gift given to only about 1/10,000 persons (entering the area of perfect musical pitch).

There are cases where both parents have almost zero musical ability yet one of their children has a great gift for music.

More than anything else, having some kind of magic way to "record" sounds in my head, would be nothing less than invaluable. I can imagine and daydream, and basically have my own song being composed in a Steam of Consciousness, in my head. The most horrible problem is my memory, I seem to have more than one instrument in mind playing at once, so remembering everything I'm hearing is hard. Even if I'm lucky enough to get one instrument part written out, I usually forget what the others are doing. ;-;

Okay.you're not as bizarre as I thought you might be.
you're propensity and your training evolved hand in hand in your childhood. That makes sense. Not that it isnt still a talent and a gift. Hope you can build on it somehow, atleast for fun, if not for profit as well.

no, i am pretty f***ing bizzare. check out my former band, might have made a dollar or two on homeade cds after breaking even lol http://www.myspace.com/chicagotypewriter187

I get songs stuck in my head a lot & I sometimes think of parodies for em

I'm a songwriter myself, and I get around this issue by having a portable sequencer that can operate on batteries or electricity. This enables me to put all the drum, bass and keyboard parts down before I forget them (I sometimes do this on the train home from work). Then I record the guitars and vocals on my computer.

i do this all the time, sometimes at the most awkward random moments. i make up my own little songs on stupid %#&!

I sometimes either hear odd classical music in my head, often accompanied by pictures usually involving ballrooms and a woman with a gun sent to assasinate someone, or music box versions of many, many songs (mostly Vocaloid Touhou covers such as Bad Apple!! !, a song about a hikikomori). I sometimes just here songs that I've listened to, which is normal.

The songs that I get stuck in my is when I come home from Church on sunday. The Hyms we do I will just start suddenly sing.

yes, me too. some are songs i already know, others are songs i write.