Dear “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You’ve got one of my favorite bass lines of all time but, maybe even more importantly, you taught me grow a pair and play synth bass live without training wheels. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I used to stay in my comfort zone for the longest time, only bringing out a synth when I could lean on whole notes saying crap like, “Oh yeah… I mainly love synth bass for it’s sustain and tone.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Get my damn fingers in shape? Learn to use a mod wheel? Play through a key-change without using the transpose button? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ None of that happened before @randyjackson recorded your bass track that I loved so much, I couldn’t help but play it the way it was meant to. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That said, it’s one thing to PLAY parts like this, it’s another to WRITE parts like this, no? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Yours in oscillation, ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ -rob ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #LettersToSongs (at Minneapolis, Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxHyc5nBIy/?igshid=mg2p7qtfcxeq



















