Drum Drum Drum!

I may have mentioned this before and if I have, then I guess it is important enough to mention again.

When I was a child, I used to lay my back up against the speakers of my parents 8 track/ record player. I don't know if it was just because I was small, but these speakers used to seem really huge to me. I would sit there with the music really loud and just feel the base vibrating my insides. I know this was the first real connection I had with the emotions and sensations of music. Looking back at these moments now, I realize that I wasn't so much feeling the vibrations as I was feeling the emotions the vibrations were creating. I got accustomed to "feeling" the music, and it was difficult for me to enjoy music without leaning up against the speaker and allowing myself to enjoy it on another level. I sometimes wonder if I hear the same song that others hear because my focus tends to be on the base or foundation of the music.

I guess it was through the experience of "feeling" the music that I developed a love for the bass and then in turn for the drums. I was listening to a song today that had a snare drum in it, and this thought hit me... I have actually associated my moods at times to the drums. It was such a weird feeling when I realized that today I was actually feeling like a snare drum. I was feeling like that clear steel sound cutting through the background noise. Listen here! When everything around me is so noisy, I am very precise and crisp.  I thought about how I felt yesterday and I felt so much like the ewe drum. I had these moments yesterday that my heart was beating like the Ewe Drum! Listen here!