Americans are gearing up for the holiday season, which typically kicks off with Thanksgiving, football games, leftover turkey sammiches, and a chance to be introspective of all the blessings in life. Family and friends are two of the most important things. Without people with whom we can share our laughter, tears, hopes, dreams, and simple daily ramblings, each of us would be much less likely to smile. Smiles = good vibes.
One thing for which I am most grateful is music. I don't just enjoy music, I need it, as surely as I need air and water. Music comes to me each and every day; sometimes it's in a movie I see on TV, a commercial jingle that sticks in my head, or that weird piped-in muzak that fills my head in malls and markets. This morning when I was grabbing a few things at the store, they had already started the Christmas music. I don't much celebrate the bigness of the whole season, but I do love the music. Carols, hymns, all of it. Cathedral music is always fine.
The best is when I put on my mp3 player in the car. I love the aggressive, often controversial barkings of Marilyn Manson and Disturbed; I love the sweetness of Nat King Cole's buttery voice, I love Rod Stewart's rasp, the accents of the Beatles and the Stones. I love Funk and Rock, Blues and Pop, Ballads and Bubble Gum.
In every song, no matter the genre, I hear the bass. Nah, I don't hear it... I find it. A song starts and I must centre myself through the bassline. Any song I like doubles in its intensity if its growl thunders from below, or even if it simply rumbles softly in the distance. And if there is no bass in a particular tune, I think about where it should be and what it should be saying. When I listen to holiday music, I find the bass in the sound of a massive pipe organ, or in the pa-rum-pa-pum-pum of that little kid with the bass guitar... I mean drum.
Make sure you take time this Thanksgiving to say THANK YOU for music. Thank you for the bass we all love so much! It's why we're all here in this community. Bass drives the pulse in our veins. Ba-bum, ba-bum, ba-bum... ba-bum-bum, ba-bum-bum, ba-bum-bum, ba-bum-bum... I got sunshine, on a cloudy day... when it's cold outside, I got the--
Well, you get the idea.
Oh, and one more thing, I'm glad and very grateful for Teach Me Bass Guitar, and all of you here on Thunder Row. Thanks, everyone, for being my music!
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