...you brush your teeth in the morning/evening and try to make tunes out of the brush strokes with different mouth shapes!

Just my little quirk, try it!

......every word spoken brings a song to mind !
......you find yourself playing imaginary keyboards and clarinets when there's nothing else to do
......you see an instrument and you just can't stop yourself touching it or asking if you can play it
...... you'd be quite happy to stay at homethe whole day and play your instruments without seeing anyone !
and, and, and, ...............

......You add your own words to a well known song

(sung to the music of La Donna e Mobile - "my teeth are hurting me, my teeth are hurting me. I brushed them very hard, my mouth hurts very bard...."

Its been a long day...

Craig.

You're doing something you REALLY dont want to do (eg. homework!) and you want to tear it up into tiny pieces because its keeping you from your instrument!

QUOTE (nutter @ Sep 28 2004, 09:14 PM)

You're doing something you REALLY dont want to do (eg. homework!) and you want to tear it up into tiny pieces because its keeping you from your instrument!

yep yep yep!LOL unless its music hwk of course heehee

A BIG problem with being hooked on music is that wherever you go where there is "background" music you just HAVE to listen. I just cannot blank out music no matter how awful it is!

I think if I worked in a shop with background music I would go stark-raving mad!!!!!

This thread has just made me thik of a scary thing that happened to me today. Well, kinda scary, but also nice to see too.

In attempt to find out about the use of practise rooms at my college today, I ventured down to the basement of one of the buildings. (This basement is music rooms only, so only music students go down there.)

Anyway, I was startled to find that it is the most buzzing place in the entire college, a veritable hive of music activity, people dashing about with instruments in varying states of assembly, groups randomly singing in corners, music of all types and styles pouring from every room, and even one boy sitting there in the middle of the corridor (surrounded by enthusiastic admirers) playing Gershwins 'Summertime' on his violin!

When you can see all that, and think, wow, this is amazing, thats when you know you are crazy about music!

Constantly having a piece of music stuck in your head...

Right now it's Dvorak's Humoresque, from reading the post about it on this forum!! Earlier today it was the Holborne from my AS music book, and before that the Handel sonata I'd been playing on violin! I don't think I ever have a tune-free brain, if that makes sense!

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Constantly having a piece of music stuck in your head

That happens to me too...

how about singing a song from choir and having your friend reminding you that I'm walking down the street!!! Oh well, there was only 1 other person about who could hear me.

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Anyway, I was startled to find that it is the most buzzing place in the entire college, a veritable hive of music activity, people dashing about with instruments in varying states of assembly, groups randomly singing in corners, music of all types and styles pouring from every room, and even one boy sitting there in the middle of the corridor (surrounded by enthusiastic admirers) playing Gershwins 'Summertime' on his violin!

Wow!!! I wanna go there!!!!

QUOTE (Rainbow @ Sep 29 2004, 10:04 PM)

QUOTE Constantly having a piece of music stuck in your head That happens to me too... how about singing a song from choir and having your friend reminding you that I'm walking down the street!!!

Yeah... I know that feeling! Walking to the bus stop after choir with my friend singing under my breath "Wade in the water, wade in the water children, wade, Gods gonna trouble, the water" etc etc. Then humming "my heart will go on" on the bus...

seeing notes on a stave and feeling your fingers twitch ........

M

seeking for a job with no overtime so you can practise after office hours

nat.

...Playing the imaginary Piano (Desk) expertly whilst listening to music on hold.

QUOTE (sutty_73 @ Sep 30 2004, 04:50 PM)

...Playing the imaginary Piano (Desk) expertly whilst listening to music on hold.

...........tapping your fingers around like a keyboard without yourself knowing it!

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seeking for a job with no overtime so you can practise after office hours

Ha Ha, this is exactly what I've been doing! I have been offered a new job today and am considering whether to accept the offer.......

Sam

you start using music terminology in general conversation... like in the pub

Which reminds me, you start saying fe-nay, when youactually just mean fine!

Have to say most of them but definitely the toothbrush thing!! (first post)....I thought it was just me that did that!!

Sitting in maths going t c t c t c t c t c t c t c t whilst working out simultaneous equations?

That advert with the guy who sings "happy birthday to you" while the woman eats those snack a jacks or whatever they are....and he goes really out of tune and it makes me cringe every time. Maybe the fact that it makes me cringe means I'm just retarded though lol

Yeh. I found myself in French today playing an imaginary basssoon, then a flute and then a piano. I tap out rhythms to songs. And everything else on the list.

Ceri

i always dream that one day i will be playing the piano, organ or even sing in front of many people in festivals....

I was practising piano scales really fast on the desk in the school library the other day and my fingers were making a really loud noise on the table which was really annoying everyone- I only realised when I noticed about 15 people were staring at me!

1 more to add to the list...

working out tv jingles on the piano.

QUOTE (liebe_klavier @ Sep 30 2004, 07:29 PM)

i always dream that one day i will be playing the piano, organ or even sing in front of many people in festivals....

Me too.... also dream of some day that I can perform my master piece on stage....
That is what music is all about..

Dear Czaire and liebe_klavier,

I sincerely hope that your dreams will one day come true for you both.

Best of Luck,
Craig

Thanks Craig, u too hope that your dream will come tru as well.

Czaire

thanks Craig....your dream will come true as well...

u no u're addicted to 'the drug' when u start to get withdrawal symptoms everytime u go on holiday nd there's no piano, or you're parent's ban u from taking u're flute! two weeks with no instruments in sight is absolute torture! I just end up singing all the time to try and make up 4 it!

all of the above AND
..... you keep driving instead of going home because apiece of music is on the radio that you HAVE to hear.

LOL cecilia i do that too!

-When you pretend that an empty water bottle is a clarinet and you finger your music
-when you always have a band song stuck in your head
-when everyone else would rather eat lunch and you wouls rather play your music
-when you are excited for auditions
-when you get into yelling matches over band politics

Some guilty ones of mine:

You walk home with some friends and sing together, in harmony, the entire 20 minute walk (3pm, this afternoon)
You scream at someone in the pub when their karaoke is bad (me, always)
You turn up to Karaoke at the same place every sunday night, because there's £20 for first prize and it pays for your drinks (me, every sunday!)
You play the piano with one hand while watching tv or a DVD (me)
You sit with a mouthpiece in your mouth making irritating noises while typing on the forum (me) or while watching tv (not me, luckily enough for my flatmates)
You wake up at 4am to play that piece, because your suddenly realised how to get that top D on the flute (last night, 4am until 430am, terribly stupid idea)
You pick up on the tiniest mistakes, and end up laughing at your music teacher because his C# was out of tune, and he can't get top top C on the Saxophone (ok, me again, so we've agreed that while he teaches me classical saxophone, I'll teach him jazz!)

I'm sure I can think of some more - I do the same thing in drama, and walk down the road talking to myself or doing bits from Shakespeare, or pretending to be someone else so I can work on character development on whatever play I'm in or directing at the time!

Oh let's add one more, which happened in my first week of Belfast:

Almost getting arrested for making too much noise, when you just HAD to have that 10 person jam session outside at 2am... we were let off, cos nobody in the vicinity wanted to complain - they were watching and listening!

when you're listening to a song and you start singing in harmony

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when you're listening to a song and you start singing in harmony

Omg I do that!

QUOTE (ImaAardvark5 @ Oct 29 2004, 07:58 PM)

-when you are excited for auditions

And when you enjoy playing in your audition........ not that I do that

QUOTE (isabelsmells @ Oct 30 2004, 01:57 PM)

And when you enjoy playing in your audition........

Thats possible????

Drawin staves, and making up songs, or memorising others and writn them down in my school books, a bad habit of mine.

You are definitely hooked on music when you think a perfect interval is a fourth or fifth

rather than a lunch break long enough to eat, do some shopping and read the paper for a few minutes.

...or even an 8th?

You go to a party, but find a piano and practice those blasted four bar.

You give your instrument a name (Bill)

You start telling your friends that the latest no.1 song has parallel fourths in it.

You get withdrawal syndrome after 5 hrs.

You wince when you hear people singing out of tune on the radio.

You sing in harmony to everything

QUOTE (Subatomic_Star @ Oct 30 2004, 04:20 PM)

QUOTE (isabelsmells @ Oct 30 2004, 01:57 PM) And when you enjoy playing in your audition........ Thats possible????

Yep, it is possible. I couldn't WAIT for my seating audition in my orchestra, and when I was playing I was happy.

........tryin 2 play any music tht u hear on ur imaginary instrument even if ur out in the street

........being able 2 play a piece of music tht u learnt 3/4 years ago from memory

........listenin out for wrong notes or hiccups even when its a really good musician playin

.......not being able 2 do work in class cos ur humin a song 2 urself

n the worst.......

.......giving your instrumen a name (Bill)

ma flute is called faye after a girl i kno she was the first person who saw me after i bought ma flute

QUOTE (ImaAardvark5 @ Oct 29 2004, 07:58 PM)

-when everyone else would rather eat lunch and you wouls rather play your music

i do that! and the school piano is so nice, sometimes I get into school early just to play it.

everywhere theres a piano you have 2 play it....a little cafe in york....talbot house in belgium...friends house...

you stop watching any television so you have more time to play instruments

um when you have lessons to go to but stay in music instead..........not that i do that

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Nov 1 2004, 03:06 PM)

um when you have lessons to go to but stay in music instead..........not that i do that

Um... of course I don't do that. *cough* *cough*

Well very rarely anyway *hem*

Your maths teacher asks you for a definition of a chord of a circle ( being a line segment between any two points on a given curve) and you say "a combination of usually three or more musical tones sounded simultaneously."

But luckily my maths teacher has a degree in music and knows what I was going on about!

...being asked in my 'Performance Review' ( am a midwife ) where I want to be in a year's time and wanting to say 'playing the piano in a jazz band' but saying something sensible instead. Have another review coming up so might say it this time!!!

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Your maths teacher asks you for a definition of a chord of a circle ( being a line segment between any two points on a given curve) and you say "a combination of usually three or more musical tones sounded simultaneously."

I so have to try that on mine!

Actually, its possibly not a good idea, seeing as I'm already failing maths miserably as it is. I knew I shouldn't have done the stupid subject.

QUOTE (tamsin @ Nov 8 2004, 06:09 PM)

stupid subject.

Many musicians (most, in fact) seem to have a talent for maths, as long as they enjoy it. Of course, if you don't like it, you're unlikely to be any good at it, but you can always try very hard to enjoy it and you may end up finding it easier. I used to love maths!