The Thing About Rock Music Is That It Helps You Stay Strong In Life 🤘
Hey there, fellow HIVE users from all around the world as well as dear readers from both HIVE and outside of it! For today's last post here on my HIVE blog (and a brand new personal entry/contribution to the Music community as well), I decided to write a bit about rock music, more specifically a strong feeling, impression, and certainty (based on my life experience) about it: it helps you stray strong in life!
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I've been a rocker since I was a little kid. As I grew up I listened to more and more rock artist and bands. Mostly classic rock stuff and then branched deeper into this great, complex, and amazing music genre with progressive rock, psychedelic rock, alternative rock, grunge, blues rock, and, at the crossroads, jazz fusion (just to name a few). Heavy metal and hard rock were also among my sturdy favourites (and still are, to this very day).
As I aged, I came to the conclusion that in the face of life's many adversities, rock music helps you hang tough. It certainly did this great thing to me and I am very grateful. For example, whenever I was troubled or in any sort of turmoil, I self-isolated and listened more to rock music. Slowly but steadily, rock music became more than just music, it became a lifestyle (minus the many cliches and stereotypes of the rock stars of the 20th century). It became a lifestyle in the sense that I took the big decision of investing in music and buying a series of musical instruments on which I can actually learn how to play and perform some of my all time most favourite songs in the process.
I listened to many, many rock bands and artists, that's for certain. I am not saying this so as to brag but more as a personal recap... and, in a certain sense, to realise how time passes by... It really does, but it always did so much better with rock.
Now I can still perform a little bit on guitar, bass, ukulele, and keyboards, largely with the help of Yousician. I also have a musical notebook full of tabs of classic rock songs by Led Zeppelin or The Doors for example. A beautiful memory from my spare time spent as an international student abroad. In my spare time, I used to keep at it, keep learning how to play guitar in my student dorm room. Most of the times, my former flatmates liked what I played.
After I came back to my home country, I had to start at 0 at university... and so I did not have that much time to play on my musical instruments as I did when I was in my early 20s. The funny (or shall I better put ironic) thing about it is that all my musical instruments stand next to me right now as I am writing these lines... waiting patiently for me to play on them. And, in fact, that's what I should resume as soon as possible. But some days are very strange indeed... it is as if I can hardly find the time to play on them, although they are now in my grasp (as closer as ever) and I worked so much for them...
Oh well, perhaps it will be time-permitting at some point to resume my rehearsals, hopefully. Until then, hang tough!
That was all for this post! Thank you so much for your time, readership, appreciation, and positive feedback here on my HIVE blog! I am very grateful to you for your support! All the best, take care, stay safe, and have a wonderful autumn!
P.S.: One of my acoustic guitar has broken strings as well as a broken bridge and loose bridge pins respectively. It's my first acoustic Harley Benton on which I played a lot in standard tuning and I even tried alternate tunings as well... One day perhaps, I'll repair it. But, until then, I plan to buy another Harley Benton as the broken one I still have. Why you might ask? Because, paradoxically, buying a new one from Thomann might be cheaper than repairing the old one at the moment. However, after I'll purchase the new one, I'll still keep the old one. I can't get rid of it. I am too emotionally attached to that beauty and it's understandable. If you are a guitar player with several years of experience behind you, you'll understand me for certain! All the best and rock on!