[Trombone-l] Question

[John Burton]

On jazz or Dixieland gigs I usually find my "inner voice" singing with
the other parts I hear.  Then in the infinitely short time it takes to
go from singing in my head to hearing IN my head, I try to mimic that
sound out the front of my face.

In fully-charted music, I try and find that I'm "singing" the chart in
front of me.

However, to fully answer your question, I don't do this in either German
or English.  I could be "singing" La La La La .. unless there are
specific words to the tune, then I sing in English.  But always I sing
in tonal construct .. jazz, Dixieland, religious, classical ..
whatever....

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john burton
Bach 50B3 Bass Trombone
Kanawha Valley Community Band / Slide-by-Slide
South Charleston, West Virginia

-----Original Message-----
From: trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu
[mailto:trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu] On Behalf Of Samuel Jay Keyser
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:00 PM
To: Trombone-l at samford.edu
Cc: Samuel Jay Keyser
Subject: [Trombone-l] Question

I've got an odd question I'd like to ask the listers.  Since I
anticipate a lot of you will answer, let me apologize now for not
replying to each of you. I am just curious about what you would say
about this.

Everybody knows that we can "hear ourselves" thinking in English (or
whatever our native language might be) even though we are not actually
speaking out loud .  For example, we can say our name to ourselves and
actually hear it inside our heads.  If you aren't sure about this, just
think of what you are doing as you read this.

Now, I'm wondering if the listers can hear their trombone playing in the
same way.  That is, listening to the language inside your head is called
"silent speech."  Can you listers also hear "silent music?"

Jay


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