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a little #docswhorock for your thursday @AtulGroverMD
a little trivial background:
I was learning to play bass guitar in med school (with a lot of help from @BBPulmDoc) and taught myself this riff well before I really should have, just sat down and brute-force learned it
I was learning to play bass guitar in med school (with a lot of help from @BBPulmDoc) and taught myself this riff well before I really should have, just sat down and brute-force learned it
not surprisingly, my bass playing fell off in residency and after and I didn't play anything until last year when I started learning guitar
took a little refreshing to relearn this riff but the muscle memory was largely in there. so bewildering to me how relearning something like this I knew before is such a different challenge than learning a new riff
it's mostly easier but it presents its own challenges as some of the muscle memory is still there so I'm partially fighting with myself
anyway, my FIL sent this article to me today so I relearned the I Want You Back riff and sent it to him https://www.musicradar.com/news/best-song-intros
related: it's also fascinating to me how songs can be so evocative of memories and phases in my life, but also how just hearing the intro of a sung can open the floodgates
and, relatedly, how sometimes songs fall off my radar because they're too "obviously" good and then later I end up listening to them and it's like "oh yeah, this song is excellent for a reason"
and now reminding me of perhaps my favorite rambling music thread, which also brought me to another thread of mine on a nice opportunity I had to help someone (more recent battery thread and the Aretha thread) https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1169729011939008513
also if this rambling thread of nostalgia isnt clear enough, these are emotional times
