Often, when I'm surfing through the DT, and download a midi, so I can read along with the tune, I find the music and the words don't seem to match up in my head -- there seem to be either too many notes, or too few. And recently, I composed a few songs of my own on NWC, and sent them through e-mail to my Dad, and he /insisted/ that the words and the tunes didn't match up, even though, since I wrote both, I *know* they do. the problem is magnified, of course, if there are a lot of grace notes or slurring in the melody -- or when the melody is split between two or more staves, and has the chords written in -- I'm never sure which note is the melody and which is the harmony, or if the "real" note is one in-between the high note and the low...(this last gripe not a problem in the DT, but in other sites like Kididdles)

I was wondering if any other folks here have had the same experience, how they deal with the problem (do you alter the words or tune until they match up in your own brain, or what?), and if you have any theories as to why this kind of thing happens. Any real reasons of course, will vary from person to person, but I'm just curious...

I guess this question is sort of related to the ideas discussed in these threads: Karaoke of the Mind? and The Song Stuck in Your Head, Science, though I guess this is a case of teflon (tm) brain -- what you *want* to stick, won't...

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