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It's amazing that not only is playing music something you are or are not born to do, but that a specific instrument speaks to you. I wanted to play drums since I was a wee little spud. I used to get my brother's drum sticks (he played only snare in the school band) and turn my folks' trash cans upside down and bang on them. The drums just 'made sense' to me. At the age of 46, they still give me a rush. I like playing praise/worship material, progressive rock, groove. Yet, I look at someone playing piano, guitar and think, "How in the world can you do that?"

Music moves the human soul. It's emotion. I've noticed that people lose all objectivity about a band they've listened to since childhood. Have you noticed that? They'll talk about the members of that band as if they were virtuosos. You're sitting there going, "Are they serious?" Yet - it's because it reminds them of growing up - home, etc. It's because it moves them. I do it too.