The Little Drummer Boy

I remember when I didn't even have a drum, only the inner thump of my heart seem to make my voice sing.  I never did sing from the mind always from deep within.  I do music today for that only reason. How could you sing a note if your heart isn't the conductor?  This is the most basic idea, an idea that is missing in modern music.  Really in any profession.  The easiness is the easy part but the deeper hidden message takes years of searching.

The drum beats and it wants you.  Although I love all instruments my love affair is very wild with the drums.  If I don't have that element it all falls apart.  I learned this lesson very early on when I studied music intimately at a jazz club for months on end.  I dazzled in how I never could in a million years play them, I admired whomever could take on such an instrument.  The heartbeat.  Steady like the rhythm yours has right now.   So contagious is makes you move.  Music should always move you. Drums move the music so much that it will make you tap your toes without your mind knowing.  The energy it vibrates makes you feel like your chest cavity is about to find another heart. A beautiful thing.

Its underrated and rare when you find a solid one.  I have been in the moment with many and none do what I have now felt. In fact that is beyond what is missing, musicians that feel what they are playing. So many technical musicians nowadays, "I went to NYU School of Music." I say who cares you just spent a lot of money on something they can't teach you.  You know how to play an E Minor but do you know how to feel truly like deep in your soul what an E Minor feels like.  Don't get me wrong there is a technical side that is needed but its not everything.  When you have been around all types of musicians this you get to understand.  More importantly it is something you can not teach.  It comes from your favorite record, it comes from a deep inner pain and it comes from study.  Then you hear it, then you feel it and then it changes who you are as a musician.

To me it all goes back to the drums, even playing your inner beat and listening to it.  We aren't robots, we are emotionally invested.  Lesson learned, I choose to only play with cats like that. I have been with them both and I rather feel the drums play and to have the feel something kinda music.

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-Dani Erin