Ever composed a beautiful song in your head?

Pray To Jesus

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I know what Beethoven must feel like when he composes music. I could hear everything in my head. I did a 30 minute piece with many variations.
 

HamburgerBoy

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Once in a while (maybe once a month) as I'm getting to sleep I'll play what seems to be original music in my head, but I can rarely keep it going more than a minute or two. Sometimes I dream music too, although when I wake up I'll often realize it was an odd amalgam of two different songs (like, for example, a distinctive vocalist singing a melody identical to the water world song of Super Mario Bros).
 

sandorski

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Too many times to count. When I was 10ish I used to fall asleep being a Rockstar to all kinds of originalish tunes. Even woke up from dreams with music stuck in my head, but long forgotten now.

Most of it always started out based upon something I heard, but morphed into something else after awhile. Often it just went on and on until the latter parts had little resemblance to the early parts of the same song. Most of the time with lyrics, but mostly just music.
 

ImpulsE69

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Same...most all the songs I write start out in my head. Unfortunately, you can't control when it happens and many are forgotten before I can jot them down :(

The worst is when you are laying in bed trying to go to sleep and something hits you..do you get up and try to record it, or go to sleep..ugh.
 

exdeath

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Yes, but identifying individual instruments and actually tracking the multiple tracks in a tracking program and making a coherent composition is a challenge with zero music background. Especially when you are talking full orchestra, choirs, etc and everything is a cohesive blur of 100s of strings and overtones simultaneously and it's not just a simple 3 instrument rock song.

Most of what I imagine is really slow tragic epic theme-y kind of stuff for a video game of the RPG genre... made my own eyes water a few times :D

Sadly it will never see the light of day, because writers and programmers don't make video games these days, texture artists and 3D modelers do. For every 100 skilled programmers and aspiring game makers "in the wild" there are zero 3D modelers and animators. Even starting with something like Unity, it's clear 90% of game development is asset driven, not code. And one thing I'm not is an artist. I have a second left brain instead of a right brain.

Music I can understand, lots of mathematical properties. But capturing emotions and characters in a 3D mesh and animating thousands of frames and textures isn't something I would even know where to start.

This is some ancient random thing I made in high school trying to get out of my head for an RPG by pecking keys with a mouse on a virtual keyboard with sound recorder running, and then trying to manually overlap each channel by mixing multiple wav files.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e2d1yfec98z8pxi/SONG.WAV?m

Probably like 14-16 playing around with my first real PC sound card an AWE32 using the midi test control panel with sound recorder running. Can you tell the 90s RPG influence? Pretty sure at the time I was playing Arc the Lad on PS1 (imported) and had this song stuck in my head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN80h2rGgGk

But alas, I am a programmer not an artist, so even this little bit took damn near forever to "get out"

Fast forward to today, trying to teach myself guitar, but I don't have the self discipline, I keep going back to the easy drop C barred power chords and playing stuff like Stricken and Down with the Sickness.
 
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olds

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Sung to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey"

On top of old Smokey
All covered in sperm
I fucked Margaret
And got a terrible germ
I fucked her with pleasure
I fucked her with ease
But now I have
A venereal diesease
 

dighn

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only when i'm half asleep, and then i wonder if i just dreamed up the whole thing (not really, but you know what i mean).
 

sandorski

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Sung to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey"

On top of old Smokey
All covered in sperm
I fucked Margaret
And got a terrible germ
I fucked her with pleasure
I fucked her with ease
But now I have
A venereal diesease

:biggrin:

nice
 

JamesV

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I swear I hear music late at night (2AM+), and only live with my great aunt so I know it's not playing in the house, nor in our 'older people' neighborhood where the nearest house would require serious decibels for me to hear it.

Sometimes I listen really hard, and seem to be able to change the music when I do that.

I know it sounds like insanity, but maybe that is how other composers have worked? Just seem to hear something, and work from that? Or maybe I really am insane, but at least I'm not imagining bugs crawling over me or that the house is on fire.