God's Favorite is the Kick Drum

I feel like I start a lot of posts this way, but it's been a rough stretch. Maybe it's because whenever I feel like I have something to write is when I've been walking through a valley. Who knows. Here we go.

I was just listening to Beautiful Eulogy's new free CD and the first track is an instrumental. It's super chill, starting out with rain sound effects and real consistent bass-line beat. 

Today has been especially difficult, and so I've been having strange thoughts, as I usually do on difficult days. I started to analyze the pattern of the kick drum beat. The kick drum is that big drum on the drum set that the drummer kicks with his or her foot.

This is the drum that anchors in every instrument, every voice, and every rhythm to each other. Without the kick drum, the music would have no backbone, and many auxiliary measures would need to be taken to mimic its mentronomic effect, such as adding a guitar, or something else.

That's what God does. God isn't interested in the trappings. If He is, it's certainly not all the time. He doesn't live for a nice drum fill, though He can play them. He isn't trademarked by a tricky interplay between the high-hat and ride cymbals, though when He does it, it sounds majestic. He doesn't even employ the drumroll on the snare very regularly at all. God's style is a simple kick. 

1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4...

He anchors every ancillary instrument by His constancy. He might be so pleased to give us a lead instrument, like an electric guitar, or a violin, or a cello (heh), but sometimes we just run out of notes. We get to the 1 and 2 and 3 and ... we can't feel the 4. We don't know where it is. We're anxiously waiting to get to the next measure, but we get lost. We lose our place. 

That's why God is a drummer, and His kick drum never, never, ever fails. 

Next time you hear a song with a noticeable bass line and/or a prominent kick drum in your favorite song, think about God. Remember that His rhythm might feel off. You might think that He's off time. 

He just might have just switched it up to a mixed meter and He didn't tell you right away. 

:)

DSN