I'm a musician of a kind. I have a hard time attributing the things that happen with music and MBTI/cognitive functions. Maybe you have some insight into this and can help me out... Or post about your experiences creating music.
I know personally that proto-music exists in my head at all times... I can just express it/have a notion of it... even more fluidly than I can type or speak. Usually it is in the form of rhythms, sometimes melodies... and maybe chord progressions if I'm focusing on a bass line or really put in mental effort. Whenever I try to outwardly express this proto-music I never can completely capture what is in my head in a quality expression outside. The closest I can get is taping out a beat or humming. Anything that requires an interface through an instrument or even singing... just comes out rather garbled.
I can play bass guitar to a fairly decent level, but whenever I try to play what's in my head... it goes through the patterns that are easy to play on my fingers and I tend to have garbage technique. I'm an absolute noodler and can come up with random riffs and whatnot... but in a rather un-musical way.... horrible timing and technique but what I'm expressing is uniquely my own.
I'm a bit curious as to this process, and what cognitive function this is. As far back as I can remember, I've always been able to come with an accompaniment part on top of the music I hear around me... just some rhythm thing or maybe a melody. I don't know if this is Ne or Ni... It's easier for me to come up with my own little thing than follow along with the music as is.
Then there is electronic music/composing... which I also make and has a different process. This is a bit random, a bit thought out and a bit trial and error. I use my knowledge of beats and rhythm, chord progressions and serendipity to play around with stuff. I find a melody or an idea that is appealing. Then I use that as a germ to generate more ideas off of that one. I add and subtract, alter and create changes and builds and flows until it sounds good. I get into a weird state in this process... where I feel the music needs more to it... but don't know what. But it's really good so far... so I just listen to it over and over and over again trying to imagine what kind of things to add... but I don't want to ruin the music with adding stuff. I've sort of internalized a billion rules of thumb to follow in creating the music, how to make interesting bits... and can generate new ideas rather quickly.
Sometimes I have a vision of what I want to add, and focus and tweak until I find that exact sound. Or at least something close to it.
There's always a weird energy shift with this stuff. Either I'm completely unmotivated and just can't get up to make some music... or if I'm working on something and it's about done or in the middle stages I just get obsessed and can't stop working on it. I'll stay up crazy hours into the night and lose track of time while I try to make the best stuff I can.
I also have a ton of knowledge about music... music theory, technical mathematical details of music, weird structural ideas, my own sort of rhythmic theory. Which is probably an Ni/Ti combo which I try to filter it into a nice experimental yet upbeat fun way which I think is through Fe.
Anyways... I definitely don't create music in the same way as most do. I know people that have very little theory knowledge but can just play their instrument and get a feel for it with the ease that they can talk. They can play simple stuff with a ton of feeling. I have a cacophony of ideas inside my head and a ton of knowledge of how to structure and often visions of what I want to play... but expressing it is always a challenge.
I know personally that proto-music exists in my head at all times... I can just express it/have a notion of it... even more fluidly than I can type or speak. Usually it is in the form of rhythms, sometimes melodies... and maybe chord progressions if I'm focusing on a bass line or really put in mental effort. Whenever I try to outwardly express this proto-music I never can completely capture what is in my head in a quality expression outside. The closest I can get is taping out a beat or humming. Anything that requires an interface through an instrument or even singing... just comes out rather garbled.
I can play bass guitar to a fairly decent level, but whenever I try to play what's in my head... it goes through the patterns that are easy to play on my fingers and I tend to have garbage technique. I'm an absolute noodler and can come up with random riffs and whatnot... but in a rather un-musical way.... horrible timing and technique but what I'm expressing is uniquely my own.
I'm a bit curious as to this process, and what cognitive function this is. As far back as I can remember, I've always been able to come with an accompaniment part on top of the music I hear around me... just some rhythm thing or maybe a melody. I don't know if this is Ne or Ni... It's easier for me to come up with my own little thing than follow along with the music as is.
Then there is electronic music/composing... which I also make and has a different process. This is a bit random, a bit thought out and a bit trial and error. I use my knowledge of beats and rhythm, chord progressions and serendipity to play around with stuff. I find a melody or an idea that is appealing. Then I use that as a germ to generate more ideas off of that one. I add and subtract, alter and create changes and builds and flows until it sounds good. I get into a weird state in this process... where I feel the music needs more to it... but don't know what. But it's really good so far... so I just listen to it over and over and over again trying to imagine what kind of things to add... but I don't want to ruin the music with adding stuff. I've sort of internalized a billion rules of thumb to follow in creating the music, how to make interesting bits... and can generate new ideas rather quickly.
Sometimes I have a vision of what I want to add, and focus and tweak until I find that exact sound. Or at least something close to it.
There's always a weird energy shift with this stuff. Either I'm completely unmotivated and just can't get up to make some music... or if I'm working on something and it's about done or in the middle stages I just get obsessed and can't stop working on it. I'll stay up crazy hours into the night and lose track of time while I try to make the best stuff I can.
I also have a ton of knowledge about music... music theory, technical mathematical details of music, weird structural ideas, my own sort of rhythmic theory. Which is probably an Ni/Ti combo which I try to filter it into a nice experimental yet upbeat fun way which I think is through Fe.
Anyways... I definitely don't create music in the same way as most do. I know people that have very little theory knowledge but can just play their instrument and get a feel for it with the ease that they can talk. They can play simple stuff with a ton of feeling. I have a cacophony of ideas inside my head and a ton of knowledge of how to structure and often visions of what I want to play... but expressing it is always a challenge.