Re: Trying to play variations that I hear in my head
Originally Posted by
bratsche
I once wrote down the melody of something lovely that I heard in a dream. Couldn't wait to write it down when I awakened. Then months later, I realized it was music already composed, that had come up from my subconscious mind, when I heard it on the radio one day.
This has happened to me as well, and it is much more common than you might think. There's only so many notes, as they say, and they've all been played already. You get used to the effect when you play Irish music, where every tune seems to be made up of snippets of all other tunes.
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