0 present participle of noodle
1 to play a musical instrument without giving it full or serious attention:
We hear soft, abstract drum patterns, sometimes accompanied by double bass noodling.
Not surprisingly, the final product was regarded by some critics as uneven, noodling, and self-indulgent.
Where the name noodling originated is not actually known, but the name is not at all illustrative of the dangerous craft.
There are no wasted words or melodies, noodling frills or mindless riffs.
A number of people on the opal fields rely entirely on noodling for a living.
The music was also praised for not simply relying on the shock value of tripping-over-myself drum programming and light-speed fretless bass noodling.
Music sometimes emerged out of jamming, noodling, wandering in the evenings and varied loitering.
For the 1978 follow-up, though, incongruous elements have now been grafted on here and there: occasional bits of string synthesizer, soft rock riffing, passages of sensitive, new age noodling.
