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Ericnan

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Ericnan

Musician in Warsaw, United States

Artistic director, Band, Music teacher, Studio

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About

I come from a musical family. I started piano at 6, while it was not my instrument of choice, it was helpful with my early basic music theory. I started playing guitar in my early teens. I played trumpet in middle school band. I played Trumpet & French Horn in band, marched Trumpet, Mellophone, Bass Drum in the marching band, and played guitar in the Jazz and Pep bands. In my early 20's I played in a great little rock n roll band called "Inner Peace" in northern Indiana. We played several ABATE shows including taking 3rd in a battle of the bands (early 90's) where we were the opening act. The crowd response was measured to see who won. We felt pretty good being the opening act, drawing the crowd, and taking 3rd place. Life got heavy, raised some kids, financed my family, bought some property, and am now back to doing for myself more. I take playing my guitar pretty seriously, I practice daily, some more than others, but I make a conscious effort to play daily. I'd love to use what I know and collaborate, jam, or write some music. I have a good understanding of theory and love to discuss music.

My goals

1 Collaborate with musicians
2 Find paid work
3 Find bandmates

What I'm looking for

Audio engineer Band Musician Songwriter Studio Bass guitar Drums Guitar Keyboard

Instruments

Drums Intermediate
Guitar Advanced
Keyboard Intermediate
Piano Intermediate
Vocals Intermediate
Bass guitar Intermediate

Music genres

Blues Classical Cover Funk Jazz Metal Punk R&B Rock Soul

Favorite artists

My influences

This list never ends so I'll try to hit the biggest ones: Hendrix, Page, John5, Buckethead, Chet Atkins, Rory Gallagher, Yngwie, Paul Gilbert, Randy Rhodes, Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore, Albert Collins, Albert King, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, SRV, Gary Moore, Steve Morse, Jerry Reed, Robert Cray, Slash, Richie Kotzen.......

Softwares

Ableton Live
Ableton Live Beginner

My equipment

I play my early 90's Fernendes LE-2 Strat through my 1972 Fender Twin Reverb. I have plenty of power. I run into my BOSS Tuner, Dunlop Wah, MXR Dyna Comp, BOSS FZ-5 Fuzz, BOSS BD-2 Blues driver, Rat ProCo Distortion, BOSS Chorus, BOSS HF-2 Hi Band Flanger, and EHX Memory Boy. I also have my Shure SM-58 Mic and stand. I do a little recording on my laptop at home with my FocusRite Scarlett. I have a Guild acoustic, orchestra model as well. I use Ableton as my DAW.

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