I'm tone deaf, can't well mimic the growling sound many singers can, but apparently sing with a lot of emotion that makes me fun to listen to.
I can pluck at a guitar, but I can't play it. I still swear that
You're Not Alone! will be the first thing I can play on a guitar. XD
As for what music means to me, I either have some kind of show playing for me to listen to while at the computer, or I have music playing. Quite often, I'll get caught up in the rhythm of one song and play it over, and over, and over again. I can't count how many times I've had
Magical Dreamers loop just so I could do something while listening to it.
The emotion behind music rarely is a supplement to my feelings, and even more rarely does it help me change them. The screaming of "Six" neither helps me feel understood when angry, nor makes me feel mad at anyone or anything from how it sounds. Music, to me, means more of how it sounds than the emotions put into it. (Not to say the emotions mean nothing, but that they don't have much hold on mine.)
I pretty much have my dad to thank for my attachment to music. He and two of his friends used to be a basement band; he was the drummer, fully capable of playing the same drum lines Neil Pert can. (La Villa Strangiato was his biggest play-for-fun song alongside the band's guitarist whenever the vocalist went out for a smoke
) He, like me, sees a music sheet as a bunch of lines and dots. So we both have a tendency to learn to play things by ear... the only difference being that he has a replica of Neil's drum set, and I have my fingers on whatever surface I'm at while listening to music. Add the fact that he and my two older brothers can play guitar (none of them lead-guitar talent, but all of them decent as rhythm or bass), I pretty much grew up around music and having the chance to learn to play if I wanted.
... Curse my not wanting to ask for help in whatever I do. ;-;
Music pretty much saves me at work. Playing tracks from games I've recently played or a specific song I don't want out of my head lets me ignore the bad in place of replicating the music, as well as giving me a bit of a rhythm to move by as I work. Add that to the fact that a cash register (woo, Krogers'!) offers a few different surfaces for sounds, and I can more or less have fun trying to play whatever's in my head on the different areas of the register. It was actually by doing this that I discovered what a staccato beat is.
(For those who don't know, in drums, it refers to playing riffs that don't have anything to keep time with. Normally there's a hi-hat or snare being hit every beat or every other, which keeps time and tempo. See 4:09 to 5:30 of
La Villa Strangiato for a stacatto example)
EDIT: 8000th post.
I do not consider it wasted. :3
