music

I always heard when I was in elementary school in music and art classes that music was the universal language. Until the last couple of years I really have not given that a lot of thought, but it occurred to me two days ago that music truly is the universal language. It is amazing to me that you can sit down with someone who knows barely anything about music and just sit there and make amazing music. For example, I have a friend who knows very little about music. He used to play guitar a lot but has stopped the last few years because he has gotten older, more responsibilities, etc… anyway, I also do not know a ton about music but I know a little bit thanks to my previous roommate, who was a music major and I have been practicing my guitar religiously the past year because I have finally found a band/genre that I find very inspiring. Also a lot of my friends that I grew up with and went to high school with, if they did not play a sport; they played an instrument. So I went over to my friend’s house the other day and he had like 3 guitars and a drum set. So we both picked up a guitar and he started playing some chords and I followed and then he would lay something else down and I would run scales, or soloing, over the chords he was playing and we were playing some pretty good tunes, or at least I thought so. The best part was when I decided to get on the drums. He started playing this major chord progression and then repeated it and I picked it up on the drums and we started jamming. It was amazing. We pretty much came up with a whole song, chorus, bridge and everything, without saying a word to each other. It was one of the best musical experiences of my life. Music truly is the universal language.