Do you ever unconsciously add your own contributions to music while listening to it?

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I hope no-one's done a thread like this...I did look! Anyway, I realised this morning (while listening Roscoe Holcomb's "Boat Up a River" and tapping a train-track rhythm on the jewel case of the compilation You Can Never Go Fast Enough) that I do this quite often.

― Ian Riese-Moraine plays air-keytar! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 13 March 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Usually to tracks that have very limited instrumentation. So, do you?

― Ian Riese-Moraine shakes his air-maracas like Bez (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 13 March 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah sometimes I air-drum along to songs that have no drums but feature, say, very energetic guitar playing.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Whenever I see a band live and not all the instumentation from the record is reproduced I hear it in my head. Does that count?

― Magic City (ano ano), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I really meant physically, but I suppose those count.

― Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Failing that, Ian Riese-Moraine. (Eastern Man, Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I add fretless bass to like everything I hear.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

On Pet Sounds, I always felt like there should be an entire Beach Boys-style chorus harmony repeating "That's Not Me" after Mike Love says it. Now I can't hear the song without my own phanton "that's not me" in it.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I also hum alternate melody lines and counterpoint to create more complex harmony in my head when I'm listening to something with stripped down melody- only sometimes, I should add.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

unconsciously? hell, i do it on purpose a lot of the time. usually twangy peter-hook style bass noises or low humming: the latter sounds great when you're listening using in-ear earphones. however: you look like a twat on the bus, natch.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

my friends and i used to play 'was that noise me or was it part of the cd' while driving around and listening to music. needless to say, we weren't very good at it, and it's a lousy game to begin with.

― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I do what slone does, I harmonize often, as well as doing drum fills and the odd guitar solo. My wife usually thinks I'm making fun of the music at first.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i harmonize too, or ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING i come up with little prince-like falsetto squeals between lines of a verse, usually vulgar non sequitur shit like "assfuckin sweet time baby uh" kind of stuff

― f--gg (gcannon), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, hell, yeah. I usually have to be told not to sing along if I'm listening with headphones.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 13 March 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I kiss you.

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I some times add string arrangements and extra guitar parts in my mind.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i have done this but can't think of an example, the one that does stick out however is when my ex-bf tried to single-handedly turn Radoiohead's Just into a big bsnd jazz number.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

argh. bsnd = band

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 13 March 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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