MUSIC: Three Tune Tuesday 133 - 3 Songs on the Theme of “Grateful” (Hive Open Mic Week 192)

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing to you from Cape Town in South Africa!

Welcome to "Three Tune Tuesday", an initiative started by @ablaze. It is week 133 overall! My current pattern for how I will be contributing to TTT is to take the Hive Open Mic challenge Theme of the Week and give suggestions on how I would tackle it!

For those of you who are not familiar, the Hive Open Mic is a weekly challenge on the Hive Open Mic community for anybody who loves to sing. You don’t even need to play an instrument, a backing track or a cappella is also fine as far as I can tell!

Different artists are given the chance to choose a “Theme of the Week” that the posts should be based on. Often it can be difficult for people to think about easy songs that might fit that theme… so let me see if I can be of any assistance to the people who still might not know what to try by the time Tuesday comes around!

All right! Let’s get cracking!

Here is the post inviting everyone to participate in this week’s Hive Open Mic (Week 192):

@hiveopenmic/hive-open-mic-192-worldwide-live-music-event

As you can see, it was the turn of @wallay to pick a theme, and this week the theme is “Grateful”!

“Grateful” or Gratitude is a wonderful theme, and there are many things that we can be grateful or thankful for:

SONG NUMBER 1

“Morning Has Broken” by Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam

For the first song, why not an absolute classic by Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam, where he is clearly grateful for the entire world…

In fact, I have seen my fellow HIVER from Cape Town, @Marelizezeeman give us a lovely piano cover of this song for her entry this week. Please go support her here:

@marelizezeeman/hive-open-mic-challenge-191-a6f57cd7d47fc

SONG NUMBER 2

“Thank You” by Dido

In this beautiful song, the narrator is clearly having a terrible day until she receives a call from a lover… from there it is all gratitude and “I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life…”

SONG NUMBER 3

“Thank You for Being a Friend” by Andrew Gold

Why not be totally grateful for a wonderful friend? That’s the theme of the 1978 song by Andrew Gold that you might recognize as the theme song from “The Golden Girls” sitcom!

So that's week 133 done and dusted! I hope that gave some people some ideas on how to tackle the Hive Open Mic Challenge this week? Perhaps I’ve even inspired one or two new people to give it a try? Please let me know!