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Hi my name is Stevie and I am from London and this is my music story so far.

It all started with my parents sending me to a music teacher for some light music theory and keyboard lessons. My parents weren’t from a musical background so they wished for their kid to do some music. At first I thought of it as a weekly obligation, but now about 11 years down the road I am glad they sent me for that. After I did that my musical journey stopped for a couple of years. Until I discovered an unexplainable interest in the drumkit at the age of 12. I didn’t get onto one until I was 15 but that was worth the wait. At about the same time I started to listen to a lot of rock music. Starting out with normal rock songs, my taste in rock started to dig deeper over the years into more complex and heavier styles.

Once I got onto a kit and started to learn the basics I was like most people really awful at it. But I persevered and practiced at home on whatever kind of makeshift drumkit I could make up to whatever music I liked at the time. I wasn’t great still and grew up in a school where the kids thought that if you didn’t have the talent you weren’t allowed to touch the instrument. This put me down at times but I carried on practicing at home instead to the best of my ability and with whatever resources I had.

I then stopped having drum lessons due to commitments to education and after I got through school I got a drumkit as a reward for those commitments from my mother. And then from that point onwards it was endless months of playing every song I loved over and over again, countless rants from neighbours and couple of broken cymbals and sticks. I never studied past the basics from a teacher but my favourite bands’ drummers turned into my teachers and I learned all their tricks and just pushed myself as far as I could go. This technique of learning had its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was me having a fairly intermediate drum technique without the need of lessons. But the disadvantages were that I missed out on some crucial skills that teachers would have guided me through to learn. But that is just what playing an instrument is about, you’re always learning and you can never say that you’re a fully accomplished drummer because there is always something out there for you to conquer for you’re self-improvement.

After that through a girlfriend I discovered the guitar, an instrument I never could understand how to play but thanks to 4 simple power chords she taught me, I learnt so many things on a guitar in 3 years and I ended up writing some songs on it for my band which I am very proud of. And those musical theory lessons helped me in the end to write these songs. My band consists of three of my close friends who share a passion in the same style of music as me and are great people who I connect with especially when we sit down and write our music.

Music has become a major part of my life over the last five years. It drives me to make certain decisions in life and I have realised that there is nothing better in my life than making music and playing music to other people with my band. Although I haven’t lived most of my life yet I already know that nothing would make me feel so free than playing music with my friends to a crowd of people who love the music and feel the emotion I want it to portray whether its happiness, sadness, anger etc. Hear someone saying that they like a song that our band have done puts a smile on my face all the time no matter what.

this video below is the ultimate guitar flip done in perfect style:

Hey my name is Danny O, and I am from London, England. I suppose my music story starts with the fact that I was born into a musical family. My granddad used to perform in pubs and clubs all over the UK to earn a living and my dad is a singer/songwriter who released a country album here and in America. Ever since I was born music has been pumped into me most of which was country music seeing as how my dad is a country artist. However I seemed to slowly drift away from the country music style to get into slow and funk-rock mainly because of my favourite band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers of this little age of 11, made me realise that like my dad I wanted to get into music. John Frusciante’s guitar playing inspired me a lot but the song which kicked started me into buying an instrument was ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ by Guns n’ Roses. By hearing the song, I realised that I wanted to one day be a guitarist. The fact that my dad and granddad were guitarists just helped me even more and it meant that I could be taught without the need of expensive lessons or a new guitar at the time being because we already had about 3 guitars in the house. My addiction to rock took me to like other forms of rock music such as Nu metal (bands like Korn and Linkin park) and rap metal (bands such as Rage Against The Machine). From here on I have gone on to like most forms of rock with the help of television and friends. I regularly go to see bands live in the city at places such as the mean fiddler and the Astoria. Some of the recent bands which I have seen are bands such as Rise Against, 36 Crazyfists and Bring Me The Horizon. At school I formed a little band which two friends who also loved music but on the other hand I suppose you cant really call it a band, it was more of a get together. I am now in a proper band who write songs in the style of Metal. The band consists of 2 guitarists (I’m one of the them), a singer, a bassist and a drummer. I also write a lot of acoustic material in my own time for my own use. I have always had a passion for soft rock and I believe that it is a way of realises your feelings through your lyrics and riffs. So at the current time I write songs with my band, I write songs for my own use and I write songs with one of my friends from my old school, (Cardinal Pole in Hackney, London) Andrew, mainly in the style of normal rock music.