What do you call the musical equivalent of Doodling

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Pretty close to s1m0n, I call it "nurbling". The results are called "nurbles". Obviously.

I didn't make up the term, though. That distinction goes to a piper of my acquaintance.
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A nurble looks alot like a refurbled noodle...
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A-Musing wrote:A nurble looks alot like a refurbled noodle...
Yes, I believe that was the idea.
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Nanohedron wrote:
A-Musing wrote:A nurble looks alot like a refurbled noodle...
Yes, I believe that was the idea.
So if you refurbled a noodle while
watching tweetle beetles
battle with paddles in a puddle,
would they call it a tweetle
beetle puddle paddle battle nurble?
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You could have been a ghost writer for Dr. Seuss.
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I.D.10-t...
Your question is (literally) A-Mazing...
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The only problem with most of these terms is if you use it to explain what you are doing to an average person they are just going to laugh and ask why you used such a stupid word. Then it's really moot because you've failed at making them go away quickly.

I just call it "messing around".
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Noodling is the most often used term for musical doodling. Woodsheding is used by classical, jazz and other musicians to denote working out of earshot of family or others (as in the woodshed), to perfect a difficult phrase or passage, by playing it repeatedly. This usually doesn't bother the player to do so, but drives others batty.
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Ted...
Thanks for the "woodshedding" clarification. I thought it was just "hiding from the better half!"
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'tis a side benefit
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"jazz"!
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If you really mean that it's aimless, like doodling, then noodling is the word. No improvising worthy of the name is aimless. Even though an improviser might start a phrase with no clear idea of how it will get resolved, all their knowledge of possibilities plays a role in resolving it or developing it. Some improvisers play whole phrases they hear in their head before they begin. It's a lot like being funny at a dinner party. You don't have a script and you haven't rehearsed the jokes, or at least not all of them. But you can't just open your mouth and let any old word salad come out and seriously expect it to make sense and be funny.
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There is a difference between noodling and improvising.

It can be vast...
but it's a bit subjective.

If the player calls it noodling he might be modest.
...oh, yeah, works the other way too.
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improv is sort of intentional...though what you play may be spontanious, it generally relates to a specific chord at a specific place in the music, I think. Or it's what you do when you forget a tune in the middle of playing it. :wink:

I guess you could have very informal improv...
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