I LOVE music!! I really do. I think music is a surreptitious powerful force in people’s lives, including mine. It affects everyone! Who honestly doesn’t listen to music in some form? *cricket chirp* Ya, no one.
Music at times takes me back to specific moments in my life. I can recollect what was happening in my life with certain songs. This can be good and bad. I just experienced one of those specific moments and as soon as a song played, I was taken back… in a good way.
Music can arouse certain emotions as well and has become a strong connection in my life. The style of music can affect my mood and vice versa. Lately, I have felt tried, liberated, and close with God and playing Hillsong’s “God is Able” album has matched the mood dead on.
The large majority of music out there has two parts, instrumental and lyrical. Lyrics can be relatable to current life situations consequently becoming more meaningful. Lyrics can be convicting, funny, passionate, honest and so much more. Instrumental, I think, is just as powerful as lyrics. The tune can set and encourage a mood.
I love new music. I don’t about you but I love hearing a new tune and a new way of saying something that’s exciting, fresh, and fun. I have the tendency to play, repeatedly, new material for some time before switching out. And then playing older material after some time of not listening can be almost new too!
I love music, have I said that yet? (haha) The creative part in me loves music. There are so many things to say and so many ways to play instrumentally that it is a creative field open to artists. The possibilities are endless. Now, I love writing but admittedly I have never written a song. I don’t know why… I just never have done it. Recently, an artist asked me to collaborate with him in doing a piece. I am stoked! Time for the creative juices (why is it creative juice, that sounds gross haha) to work.
So off I go to reminisce, enjoy life, and contemplate lyrics. To you I say, play that beat!
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