Welcome

Hi! I'm Alec. Welcome to Music Notes! I guess I should introduce myself, so lets just start in.

You know how some people say that Mozart's music is good for babies? Well not for me it wasn't! I don't remember much of it because it was so long ago, but I've been told I didn't like his music at all. For me Ludwig Van Beethoven was the right choice, in fact I still listen to his music today and it has been a powerful influence on my music for years.

When I was a little kid I started listening to Jazz. I lived for Jazz and it was so hard when I was in school because they didn't approve of Jazz and wouldn't let me improvise things on the many pianos that were there. Fortunately they soon got the message and started to let me play the kind of stuff that I wanted to play.

I remember when I was little how I'd seen a Fender Stratocaster and instantly fallen in love with it. When I asked my mother about a guitar she took me to the music store. When we left we had a black Epiphone and a five watt amp. I had that guitar for a long time before I got too big for it.

When I was about 14 I started to take a small interest in Rock. I started learning to play a few things on the piano and started learning to sing various songs, but I didn't take a very keen interest in Rock until I heard about Rush. One day I was hanging out with a friend and I said to her: "What's with this band Rush? Are they any good?" She told me that they were one of the best bands she knew of. So when we got to her house she put on a mix CD she had and the song 'Freewill' came on. That's when I really started to like Rock, and I knew that I wanted to form a band and play stuff like what I'd heard on that CD.

A few weeks later I was in the music store testing out a bass that I liked when a lady came in and bought some drumsticks. Once she'd picked out the ones she was looking for she started talking to me. It turned out that her son was a drummer and that he was looking for musicians to jam with, and since I wanted a band to play in this was the perfect opportunity. I called the number I was given and talked to this drummer. Not long after we got together and jammed. The minute I heard him play I knew he was the kind of drummer I was looking for, so I asked him if he wanted to be in a band and he told me he did, so we formed Roman Nova.

After that he introduced me to the Progressive Metal band Dream Theater. I started playing a lot of Metal and the rest is history.