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the nasty rumor
What do you want to know? I like songwriting. I like music. I like food. I like music that's made by very technical players but also very non technical players. I think everyone knows more theory than they think they do. I think anyone can be a musician, but they are often talked out of it before they ever reach kindergarten. I think your life isn't a race. Rather, it's a piece of art and you keep adding to the painting until you don't.
Member statistics
- Messages
- 30
- Reaction score
- 18
- Location
- PDX
- Gender
- Male
- Current Setup
- Serek Sacramento
Fender JMJ
1966 Hofner 500/1 Violin Bass
Fender ACB50
- Occupation
- Music teacher
- Favorite Genres
- I like melody and vocal harmony, and you can find that in most genres. Extra credit for lyrics I wish I'd written.
- Gigs and Ensembles
- The High Elves
Phil Ajjarapu
- Previously Owned Gear
- Lakland, Modulus, Warwick, Fender, NS Design, Kay, SWR, Ampeg, Eden, Aguilar, Bergantino, Accugroove, Tech21
- G.A.S. List
- vintage basses and tube amps and tube combos with a predilection for short scale. Also, modern builds with vintage aesthetics.
- Influences and Teachers
- Paul McCartney, Phil Lynott, Larry Graham, Tina Weymouth, Tony Levin, Family Man, Raphael Saadiq, Tom Petersson, Eric Carmen, Scott McCarl, Dean Dinning, Gail Ann Dorsey, Howie Epstein, Louis Johnson, people who sing lead while playing bass, ninjas who are interesting and melodic and still manage to disappear.
- Hobbies and Interests
- cooking, recording demos with me playing and singing everything just to see if i can, all things pedal steel and non pedal steel.
- Commercial User?
- Yes
- Disclosures
- no current endorsements, but I do make my living as a music teacher.
- Available for Instruction?
- Bass Guitar Instruction
- Double Bass Instruction
- Teaching Credentials
- B.S. Music Education CWRU 1999 focus in string pedagogy and vocal pedagogy, K12 license Oregon current