Late night thoughts...

So, tonight I got out my bass for the first time in probably... oh, I don't know... a year? It was such a weird experience for me. My fingers are very sensitive again. I only played for about a half an hour or so and my fingers are really tender right now. I learned the bass line to Hello McFly by Relient K. Which if you haven't heard you can hear here:

http://audio.xanga.com/Mad_Brad_EatsCows/4001a1766125/audio.html (it's a great bass line.)


I think that my playing tonight was interesting for two reasons:

1. I'm in a really nostalgic mood lately. So many things in my life are being mixed around and I can't really help but reflect a little. Not in a regretful or wishful manner, but rather in a "Hmm, that's interesting." kind of way. Playing bass was actually a part of who I was once. Funnily enough, it was when I stopped playing bass on praise band that I went through all my "atheist, God isn't real, I want to kill myself because life is pointless without the hope of eternity" stage. Not saying that my ceasing to play bass was a part of any of that, but I just find it kind of funny that right as I stopped playing bass, I started to shed off my "fakeness" as a Christian. As hard of a time as that was for me, it was the moment where I was basically saying: "I want the real thing and if I can't have it then there isn't a point in living anymore." Thank God that He broke through all of that and revealed Himself to me in a completely different way.

It was then that I really started to delve into film and began to develop my love for the art and the craft. So, that was a really defining point in my life and picking my bass back up tonight took me back to those times.

2. It actually made me realize how much I enjoy playing it. I always just called it a hobby, but for some reason it is something that I would really like to take a bit more seriously this year. I think I'm going to spend more time learning about the instrument and teaching myself new techniques. Even though I really love film, I also hold a special place in my heart for music.

I guess I just want to blend the old and the new for this year. My love for bass with my desire to learn more. It sounds like an interesting endeavor. And every time I play it I'm sure I'll go back to the good ole' days of playing those three same notes in He Reigns. Over and over and over and over again. Maybe those days weren't so "good" after all.

;)