Wednesday, March 11, 2009

A Deeper Look

This post will be more about each individual member of the band and how we function together as a group.

Kushal

Great guitarist, great technique. Also plays the drums...he says he's better than Sebastion at drums lol. In general he's a pretty nice person and easy to work with. That's actually a pretty important characteristic - willing to concede and cooperate with others easily. Another thing that's pretty cool about him is that he's starting to work on his own music. Maybe we'll be able to put out some original stuff by a couple of monthes! He mainly listens to a lot of prog metal, neoclassical metal, nu metal, classic rock, ocassionally deathcore.

Me (Evan)

Classical guitar for over half a year (pretty good at it now, more a flamenco guitarist), electric guitar for...two monthes? Guitar wasn't my first instrument. I've been playing piano since I was four, flute since I was eight, and piccolo since...last year. I've always been a rock enthusiast since like 5th grade. I remember the first album I picked up was Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins. Man was that awesome. Favorites - thrash metal, visual kei, metalcore, alternative metal, alternative, pop punk, punk.

I'm the only guy in our band with perfect pitch. Ya! It actually helps a lot...tuning especially. Man the other guys in our band can't tune at all jkjkjk.

Since...I dunno, three years ago, I started composing my own stuff for piano. Basically ripping off classical composers and making my own stuff. Eh, oh, and music theory. Finished all my music theory tests including panel...last year-ish. It really helped me when I wanted to develop my own pieces, and now I'm trying to apply the same thing to rock music. Although...guitar is much different from piano I have to admit.

Kushal and I will eventually be the principal songwriters of the band. I'll try writing lyrics as well as music...but I'm not sure I'll do well with the lyrics lol.

Mark

Another great guitarist. Played piano since he was five? He's more of the ego side of our band. Has occassional outbursts with Sebastion, our drummer, but in general he's pretty fun to hang out with. Among all the guys in our band he has the most common musical tastes as me - thrash metal, death metal, metalcore, punk rock, visual kei.

Cole

Plays bass. ALSO plays guitar. Probably the most chill guy in our group. Listens to nu metal, alternative, alternative metal.

Sebastion

Used Kushal's drum set, now has his own. A pretty good drummer considering he took up drumming not too long ago. He's pretty chill unless Mark ticks him off...or any of us. We goof off A LOT.

Altogether, with our tastes and backgrounds, we form a pretty solid group. You can tell...right?

Haha, later

Evan

13 comments:

  1. good to know this is how u view us evan.
    xP lmao.

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  2. and who the **** said that u and kushal would write all the music?

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  3. Flamenco guitar? That's awesome!

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  4. mark, its cuz
    evan knows the most theory
    and ive been playing guitar the longest
    so as a team we would have a balance between technique and melody
    btw, notice that "great guitarist" is bolded for me :)

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  5. u told me the notes for the major arpeggios...
    thats just the notes not the technique...
    and ur not that technical.
    evan just likes u cuz u have a les paul.

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  6. oh no no no
    i taught you all the notes for the major, minor, and diminished arpeggios, and then i taught you the sweep motion
    and yes i am. i can tap faster and pull off harmonics more reliably than u or evan

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  7. you guys are so cute =]

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  8. can't wait to hear you guys at talent show!

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