Hijak

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ABOUT

queens based composer songwriter musician multi instrumentalist and aspiring composer looking to create the next biggest thing in metal, while still keeping busy with other various and broad ranging projects, including music for keyboards and often blending (if not just doing) different genres as well

Screen name:: Hijak
Member since:: May 12 2023; Active within 1 month
Level of commitment:: Very Committed
Years playing music:: 10
Gigs played:: Under 10
Tend to practice:: More than 3 times per week
Available to gig:: 6-7 nights a week
Most available:: Days

Influences

from earliest childhood to now, separated by genre

'Art' baroque, classical, romantic, modern and 'Americana'
Beethoven
Bach
Mussorgsky
Ravel
Mahler
Shostakovich
Stravinsky
Bernstein
Gershwin

John Williams

Led Zeppelin
The Who
Jimi Hendrix
Supergrass
Queen
(I did listen to quite a bit of the Beatles, Doors, Bruce Springsteen...
but have since matured)
-Black sabbath-
Metallica
Pantera
Gojira
Megadeth
Dio
Judas Priest
Blind Fury
Fallujah
Children of Bodon
Sunami

Of lesser influence

Eric Johnson
Casiopea
Chris Poland (Ohm)
Amy Winehouse
Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, John Coltrane

Instrument experience:

Rhythm Guitar:: Moderate
Lead Guitar:: Moderate
Piano:: Moderate
Electronic Music:: Moderate
Acoustic Guitar:: Intermediate
Bass Guitar:: Intermediate
Saxophone:: Intermediate
Keyboard:: Intermediate

EQUIPMENT

HeadRush FRFR-112
Marshall MG Series 100DFX
Kemper Profiler
G1X Zoom pedal (for portability)
Ratt distortion, boss metalzone, vox wah, crybaby, and behringer compression
Yamaha P45 (And older Yamaha with unweighted keys I use for horn samples), eastar EP-10, roland JD-Xi Synth
Mix12FX board... and hopefully enough cables for all of this at once haha

MAIN AXE Dean Vendetta 7-strings
yamaha acoustic (I prefer to leave it in B standard)
nylon string classical guitar
white squier (bought black) with warmoth neck
sunburst Eric Johnson stratocaster ("baseball bat neck")
Soundgarden by Ibanez 5-string Bass