Like most people, I am affected by earworms. In fact, there’s rarely a period when I don’t have one. Perhaps more atypically:
- Mine are usually percussive only.
- I have begun recording them.
Here are my two most common ones:
The first doesn’t always come with a hi-hat introduction; both loop indefinitely. I have curtailed them to four repeats.
Quite often, I’m only peripherally conscious of the earworms themselves, and instead a new prime earworm – in the form of a second percussion soundset that performs a syncopated, continuously varying solo over the accompaniment of the first earworm. Or sometimes – presumably the times when I only have the spare brain capacity to support one earworm – the first earworm just varies itself. When I have even fewer free mental processor cycles, I just get the basic repeat, as in the recordings above.
Now, have a listen, and tell me if they get stuck in your head.