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eff: Well when I first started playing music, I didn’t start with guitar, I started playing drums. My father bought me a 3 piece drumkit when I was about, I don’t know, 9 or 10 or something like that. And I was just play along to music that was playing around the house. My dad was a huge fan of ‘70s progressive music like Yes & Genesis & bands like that just put my headphones and play along, you know. Realistically it gave me a good sense of rhythm And you know, I just enjoy playing drums. But to be honest with you, I wasn’t very good (laughs). I tried, you know. I was kind of a shy kid so my dad was always pushing me to get lessons to you know, kind of better myself as a musician but I never wanted to do that. I just wanted to stay in the basement and play drums and have fun as any kid would want to do. I kind of realized I wasn’t a good drummer and my dad had a classical guitar lying around the house and I picked it up one day and just started playing some simple chords. I think he has like a book by Mel Bay. It was like book one or something like that, that shows you basic chord formations and stuff like that and that kind of how I began. I started noticing that I was much more umm, I was much better on guitar than I was at drums. I started listening to records and just kind of learning the chord changes and stuff you know. Especially like early Van Halen and Iron Maiden and stuff like that. And I guess my dad started noticing too that I was becoming pretty good at a pretty fast rate so, I started taking some lessons and then I’d take some lessons from private teachers and stuff like that. But most of my playing is self-taught. I just listen to a lot of music and I guess I was blessed with having a very decent ear. I was able to pick up you know, chord formations from other players. I just sit in my room for hours and just have fun with it. I was I believe later on, around age of 15 or something when I started listening to Yngwie Malmsteen and Jason Becker and Marty Friedman and that’s when my playing really started to progress. That’s where I started to play kind of faster and get better at technique. So those guys really influenced me to be a better guitar player. So that’s kind of how it started really.
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