Anticipation – The Way I Hear Music
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- December 17th, 2008
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You’ve had that song stuck in your head all day; you can’t wait to get home and listen to it as loud as you can; you need to hear it, you can’t breathe until you hear it. You finally get home; you kick off your shoes and lock the door. You press play and time stands still in the split second before the music kicks in.
You hear the opening notes of the song that you’ve been dying to hear all day but the intro is just the beginning, you’re dying to hear the first verse. The first verse hits and all you can think about is the giant release that is the chorus. The chorus hits and you sing along at the top of your lungs, nothing feels better. Now you can’t wait to hear the second verse because it’s the one with the lyrics that are the exact lyrics you’d write if you wrote songs, they’re perfect and they sum up every emotion you’ve experienced that day, that week, that month, that year. You need to hear the bridge with that perfectly timed guitar riff or that breathtaking bass line; the part where everything drops out except the drums and group vocals, the part all of your friends would sing along to in the car on the way to the show on Friday night.
Now you focus on the drums; the split seconds between the bass drum and snare drum; the bass on 1 and 3 and the snare on 2 and 4. Everything is perfectly in time but the snare drum is one tiny nano second behind the beat; not enough to hear but enough to feel and it feels good. It’s as though you can feel the anticipation the drummer felt and the power behind the beat; you can feel every emotion released when that drum was hit. The song is dripping with groove and it feels more right than anything you’ve ever felt before.
Music is tension and the anticipation of the release. There’s tension and release within the song structure, within each note played and within each drum beat that makes you move. There’s also tension and release in the anticipation of hearing your favourite song, discovering new music and seeing a band perform live. Music touches everyone in different ways and I find it very hard to write about the way it makes me feel; this is my attempt. How do you hear music?
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