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canberra_lad
Lv 5
canberra_lad asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 1 decade ago

What's a word to describe that sound you make when you're following the melody line?

You know when you just sound the notes of the melody line with something like "do-di-do, do-di", because something's stuck in your head: what is that called?

Update:

No, it's not humming. It's when you make a separate sound for every note.

Update 2:

Like "la la la" or "bom bom b-dom bom b-dom"

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Ad-libbing, but not in the sense of making up words, you are just substituting the words with sounds.

  • J.S.
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    You mean when you hum a melody?

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