Bytemixer + Musician in Havertown, PA

ABOUT

Not looking to join a band right now as I'm currently in lessons rebuilding my classical piano technique, and also working on and off with indie game devs given the opportunity. Though I was with a band called Blackjack Rose for a few years, put out an album with them, and then a string of hiatuses lead to us kind of drifting apart. So I've gone another direction and not currently gigging.

I don't mind having a friendly weekend jam with a couple people if it's in my neck of the woods (Havertown). My basement studio is built for rehearsing and tracking.

I've been playing piano and keys on and off most of my life, had piano lessons at starting around age 8, stopped piano and started trumpet in junior high school. Got back to playing keys and writing music on my own at the end of high school, and continued on and off through college, doing occasional online collaborations with online forums. Currently I am rebuilding my classical piano chops by taking lessons. I'm currently roughly around Grade 5 Henle though one piece I'm readying for recital is a grade 6. Through a strange twist of fate, I'm also now teaching private music composition/theory to another student of my piano teacher during summers.

Played trumpet for over 10 years, some college level (intermediate), though I've been on hiatus since moving away from Florida almost 20 years ago. Had a brief stint where I rebuilt my chops when my drummer and his friend were teasing the idea of starting a fusion trio, but that didn't take, so I'm pretty much solely focused on piano now.

Screen name:

Bytemixer

Member since:

Oct 25 2017

Active within 1 week

Level of commitment:

Committed

Years playing music:

30

Gigs played:

10 to 50

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Most available:

Days

Influences

OCRemix, Radiohead, Muse, Queen, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down, The Struts, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Jan Garbarek, Pat Metheny, Dave Brubeck, Bartok, J.S. Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Chopin, Brahms, many more.

Instrument experience:

Piano:

Advanced

Keyboard:

Moderate

Vocalist - Baritone:

Intermediate

Background Singer:

Intermediate

Electronic Music:

Intermediate

EQUIPMENT

Nord Lead 2X
Behringer Deepmind 12
Yamaha YC-73
Roland JD-Xi
Zoom G3X mfx pedal
Carvin AG100D combo amp
Fender Rumble 100 V3 1x12 bass combo
Vox VX50KB keyboard amp
Ibanez Arondite ADD120MG
Reverend Double Agent OG 20th Anniversary
LTD M-10
Presonus Air 12's
RCF Ayra Pro 6's
Soundcraft Signature 22 MTK
Various mics from Shure, Rode, Lauten, SE Electronics, AT

MUSIC