I woke up several times last night with a familiar melody in my head. By morning the tune was still there, as bright and and clear as if somebody was playing it in front of me. When I sat down with my banjo, out came Lady Anne Montgomery like I had know her my whole life. I verified a few phrases with some recordings I have of the tune, and by my second cup of coffee I had it dialed in. This leads me to suspect several things:
1- I am now such an ITM nerd that I no longer dream of real women, only tunes named after women.
2 - Years of repeated blows to the head in contact sports have finally caught up with me.
3 - Having studied and saturated my ears with this music for many years is finally starting to pay off in my playing.
I dream tunes very often, but they're tunes I've never heard before. Can't usually remember them, though. The last time it happened I remembered the key and some of the intervals. Makes me wonder if I should try writing a tune someday.
kennedy, the only reason I can think of not to try writing a tune is that there are already too many durn tunes...
But that never stops me from doing it. I'm starting to sound like a broken record (or a scratched CD?) by saying that the only way to get good at that kind of stuff is to do it. I write tunes because they appear for me, and won't go away until I write them down. They don't appear in dreams, though. They more likely appear in drunken hazes...
Wild. I've woken up with a tune in my head I didn't know fully yet before, almost as if my subconscious finished learning it while I was sleeping. Sure enough, when I try it out, it's there where it was only half there before.
There? Half-there? Well, I'm not really "all there" anyway.
I woke up with a tune in my head last year that I had heard af ew months previously, but didn't really know yet.
It was there every morning for an entire month.. Just the A part, which was all I could remember... and finally tracked it down as the 10 Pound Float so I could learn the B part.....I wasn't exactly dreaming though
I haven't had musical dreams for many years but would suggest keeping a cassette tape recorder by the bed so that
you could hum or whistle the tune into it for later notation.
She came to me in a dream....
She came to me in a dream....
I woke up several times last night with a familiar melody in my head. By morning the tune was still there, as bright and and clear as if somebody was playing it in front of me. When I sat down with my banjo, out came Lady Anne Montgomery like I had know her my whole life. I verified a few phrases with some recordings I have of the tune, and by my second cup of coffee I had it dialed in. This leads me to suspect several things:
1- I am now such an ITM nerd that I no longer dream of real women, only tunes named after women.
2 - Years of repeated blows to the head in contact sports have finally caught up with me.
3 - Having studied and saturated my ears with this music for many years is finally starting to pay off in my playing.
Anyone else ever dream a tune into reality?
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: She came to me in a dream....
I dream tunes very often, but they're tunes I've never heard before. Can't usually remember them, though. The last time it happened I remembered the key and some of the intervals. Makes me wonder if I should try writing a tune someday.
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by kennedy
Re: She came to me in a dream....
I dream tunes all the time, but usually they're ones I know well enough, so I don't have to dream them into reality.
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by seisflutes
Re: She came to me in a dream....
Paddy Ryan was good at dreaming tunes, I believe....
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: She came to me in a dream....
As was Sergeant Early...
kennedy, the only reason I can think of not to try writing a tune is that there are already too many durn tunes...
But that never stops me from doing it. I'm starting to sound like a broken record (or a scratched CD?) by saying that the only way to get good at that kind of stuff is to do it. I write tunes because they appear for me, and won't go away until I write them down. They don't appear in dreams, though. They more likely appear in drunken hazes...
Pete
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by Reverend
Re: She came to me in a dream....
Wild. I've woken up with a tune in my head I didn't know fully yet before, almost as if my subconscious finished learning it while I was sleeping. Sure enough, when I try it out, it's there where it was only half there before.
There? Half-there? Well, I'm not really "all there" anyway.
# Posted on October 5th 2007 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: She came to me in a dream....
Apparently devils dream up tunes too, probably on accordion..
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by mellow_bellows
Re: She came to me in a dream....
I woke up with a tune in my head last year that I had heard af ew months previously, but didn't really know yet.
It was there every morning for an entire month.. Just the A part, which was all I could remember... and finally tracked it down as the 10 Pound Float so I could learn the B part.....I wasn't exactly dreaming though
# Posted on October 6th 2007 by azfiddle
Re: She came to me in a dream....
I haven't had musical dreams for many years but would suggest keeping a cassette tape recorder by the bed so that
you could hum or whistle the tune into it for later notation.
When the muse strikes, be ready !
Pleasant dreams
# Posted on October 8th 2007 by b0dhran