Got music in your head?
by: Joackim Veigas
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Music has an enormous yet subtle impact in our daily lives and reaches the deeps of any persons subconscious, allowing us often to hear, the piece or song we heard, in our heads long after it has been played, which is showed when we unexpectedly start whistling a tune or stamping to an imaginary rhythm. This is no doubt a fantastic psychological phenomenon that makes many wonder how it is possible that such relatively complex tonal sequences can be so easily implemented and absorbed by our limited mind. In some cases though this can grow to a level in which our brain constantly and uninterruptedly records and repeats anything we hear, which causes minor or major lack of concentration and ability to focus.
To some people this can be so severe that they wake up in the middle of the night because they can’t seem to forget or ”shut down” the memorized melody, though this is usually reserved for those who are frequently exercising their musicality and daily exposed to musical activities, such is the case of musicians. For instance, if you often play an instrument, the melody and rhythm of the piece you play will definitely be recorded and you may notice it wandering around your head sometimes. But what to do when you completely lose control of its deactivation?
One form of musical dominance in one’s mind is musical hallucination. When you wake up in the morning you may sometimes remember exactly what you have dreamed, which is completely normal. However, if you are indeed hallucinating, you may have dreamed of an orchestra playing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and be able to actually “hear” the piece for a few minutes after you’ve awaken. This curious incident is not restricted to some times on the day; you can even begin hearing music while having a science class or drinking a cup of coffee.
A couple of years ago I had a friend who suffered from musical hallucinations. He had very good tone perception and could easily play something he heard on the piano having only to spend a couple of minutes practicing it. He told me that his head was like an eternal playing IPod; that he could hear any registered melody or song any time he wanted and that he always had one on his mind, which he claimed was due his great musicality. The interesting is though that when he had to play a certain piece for his piano teacher, he would struggle enormously to practice it for the occasion and playing it without having another constant melody disturbing him and drawing his attention.
When considering that he had learned to play the piano without the assistance of any teacher before, having I observed his situation when he had been taken lessons for some months, and having exposed himself to a vast amount of advanced piano concertos and fantasies before he was fully mature to play them, I began to wonder if his early musical indiscipline could be the source of his current difficulties. Another thing to be observed is the fact that I had never seen him play an entire piece, thou he would play a song and before it ended change directly to another, not because he was trying to pull out a medley but, as I soon observed while secretly listening to him practice, because he simply had no idea of its ending. His “everlasting IPod” had not allowed him to concentrate as much forbidding him to grow the determination to learn the whole piece.
My conclusion is that if you do not learn to control your inner music you will not be able to reach the order and discipline of a true musician. If you have not practiced this while in your earlier years you will of course struggle harder like my friend here, but it is far from impossible. The great Mozart and the genius Beethoven both suffered from musical hallucinations and light disorders, but they learned to use those for a straight purpose when composing and didn’t just allowed their thoughts to pass by as musical ghosts. If you concentrate on whatever activity you are involved in you will build up a barrier against your random music appearance which, after practiced for some time, will give you the ability to decide what you want to have on your mind and what you don’t.
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