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When I Start Playing Guitar Analysis

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1. When and why did you start playing?

I started playing when I was 10, my older brother introduced me to heaps of different music especially 80’s & 90’s punk and I loved it… I loved everything from punk to pop really, I’d lay in bed at night listening to the radio trying to record my favorite songs on my walkman and wanted to play it just seemed like a natural thing to want to do… I’ve never really thought why I began, I just loved music !!

2. Which instruments do you play?

I play guitar and piano, I learnt guitar first when I was 10 and piano later when I started producing. Electronic music and the process of writing is largely based around the use of some type of key-board or sampler so I think that skill just comes about. I still write a lot of my music on guitar and use [a] piano to recreate them …show more content…

Who was your first teacher? Other teachers?

For a month or two, I went to a family friend and he would show me songs to play and I had friends who started playing around the time I did so we would learn new stuff and show each other… But never actually had lessons for any instruments.

9. Describe your first instrument. Other instruments.

My first Guitar was a Fender Strat model but a fake one, we couldn’t afford the real thing. I played that for years and eventually got a Gibson Les Paul and these days play a Fender Telecaster (a real one now) and have a Maton acoustic guitar! Piano wise, apart fro a few second-hand organs I sal-vaged from junk piles… I have only ever owned midi keyboards…

10. What are your fondest musical memories? In your house? In your neighborhood or town?

Basically, every awesome memory I have involves music… But things like my first band (which was called Two Odd Socks ha), we use to jam in my garage or my mates back room and those days were unforgettable, and my younger days going to concerts with my older bro… there is nothing I would trade for those memories.

11. Were you influenced by old records & tapes? Which

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