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
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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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I later took up band in seventh grade to get a sense of what music is. Intentionally, I wanted to play the alto-sax and hopefully learn to make great music with it, but it would cost me, so I chose a clarinet. The clarinet had an interesting sound similar to a sax and it was nice to know that I sounded better than Squidward Tentacles. The flute was another instrument that caught my eye, it looked like a recorder but looks and sounds relatively refined. But, I could never get the embouchure right to get that sweet flute sound, instead it sounded like blowing air into a tube, looking back, I probably wasn’t ready to play it
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You will have your own reasons for wanting to play a musical instrument. These can range from wanting to learn a new hobby, to really wanting to reach for a higher goal like a career in music.
Ludwig van Beethoven once said, “Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents.” Although not everyone can be the next Beethoven, learning a musical instrument can be an enlightening and fun experience. Many people who have carried on the hobby of playing a musical instrument into their adulthood started when they were young children. Starting practically anything when you are young allows you to develop in a different way, both mentally and physically, and you begin to discover your passion. Whether the hobby is a sport or cooking, it is almost a guarantee you will be highly skilled as time passes.
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