Monday, August 15, 2011
For all guitarists who like multiple genres of music, here's a survey...?
My first love was punk/grunge ( Nirvana, Green Day, Offspring). I wanted to play an instrument and at first I though of b or singing but my dad asked if I was interested in taking guitar lessons from a friend of his at work. He bought me an acoustic guitar and the guy taught me exercises and clical arrangements. But I got bored of that and also moved so I stopped playing after a couple of months. Around a year later I got into thanks to my parents ( GNR, Queen and Pink Floyd) and just listening to bands I had heard were good( Zeppelin, Sabbath, AC/DC). I decided that since the only instrument I had was a guitar I started playing and took some beginner lessons and also taught myself songs and just practiced a lot. I kept taking lessons so I could learn how to read music (which I kind of did) he also got me into Hendrix and B.B. King. But then I stopped taking lessons because I had school ( 9th grade, and Jazz band) so I was always busy. Plus a friend of mine who also played guitar thought we should start a band. At first we played hard rock ( just the 2 of us because we didn't have the whole band) and then he got me into Slayer and I got him into Metallica. It's weird because not only am I into blues, rock, reggae ( thanks to my dad who played Bob Marley tapes when I was a kid), pop ( My dad's fav. band is The Police and and my parents like Rod Stewart, who they saw in concert also my dad bought Abbey Road when I was like 9) metal ( my friend and I also liked it) country ( my mom likes Faith Hill, Shania Twain, Carrie Underwood that stuff) but in Jazz Band we listened to a lot of Jazz and one of our ignments is listening to Jazz music. So I also like Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Les Paul, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Charlie Christian. So I just love all kinds of music because I have been exposed to so much. By the way I'm into Jazz and stuff but I'm like 15 so yeah you could say I'm like one of the only kids who listens to all this music. And right now I'm in a thrash/heavy metal band. So I'm still not done exploring music and getting better at it...
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